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Top row and bottom left of above images are the CD of Sadao Watanabe’s 1975 music album “Pamoja” i.e. “Together” in the Kiswahili language of East and Central Africa. Sadao Watanabe is a Japanese Jazz music artiste who even toured and performed in Kenya in January 1992. Before Sadao Watanabe’s said trip to Kenya of January 1992, he said he was glad to be visiting Africa, “the motherland,” Africa, “his roots.” Bottom right of above images is the CD cover of Sadao Watanabe’s 1985 CD “Maisha” i.e. “Life” in Kiswahili. Sadao Watanabe has also done a cover of the Kiswahili ballad “Malaika,” a fusion of Jazz and African beats, which is posted at YouTube at the following link i.e. https://youtu.be/OuJw2wbI0gk
The image above is a team photo of the iconic 1977 Lenana School 1st XV rugby team that made history by winning a club rugby title i.e. the 1977 Eric Shirley Shield, the equivalent today in 2021 of say schoolboys in England winning the English Premier League, high school students in America winning the National Basketball Association (NBA) title, or schoolboys in either Argentina, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, winning The Rugby Championship i.e. what used to be known as The Tri Nations. Standing, left to right: Wanjuki, Dave Davies, Otieno, Patrick “Pare” Mukora, Ken Sagala, “Obadi” Oluoch, Mukiza Mwenesi, Nick Nganga, and “Loco” Munyasia; Seated, left to right: Caleb Clint Oguya, Kris Ganase, Jim Owino (RIP), Job Owino (Captain), Willy Angawa, Eric Ayodo, and Dan Shiyukah; Seated on the ground, left, K. Thairu, and seated on the ground, right, Nazim Hajee
The image above is from the 1965 book “Kenyatta’s Country” by Richard Cox, and details, how in 1922, White settlers in Kenya almost seized power and control of the Kenya Colony in a coup, in a manner similar to Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), in 1965
The above undated image is of Colonial Kenya era Chief, Njiiri wa Karanja, and his wives, arriving for a Garden Party at State House Nairobi, then known as Government House Nairobi. In Colonial Kenya, the Kenya Parliament was known as the Legislative Council (LEGICO). One of Njiiri wa Karanja’s sons, Kariuki Njiiri, was the LEGICO representative for Kigumo in what is today Muranga County. Jomo Kenyatta, leader of Kenya from 1963 to 1978, was released from detention on 14th August 1961. The legend goes that Chief Njiiri wa Karanja in accompanying image, smashed his radio into pieces on the ground as he said in the Kikuyu language “This thing told us that us Kenyatta would be locked up and never come back alive, and now it is again telling us that Kenyatta is going to be released!” Even then, Chief Njiiri wa Karanja’s son, Kariuki Njiiri, vacated his Kigumo LEGICO seat in 1962 in favour of Jomo Kenyatta. It was at the May 1963 elections that Jomo Kenyatta switched his parliamentary constituency from Kigumo to Gatundu
The above collage bears six early images of Jomo Kenyatta (circa 1896 to 22nd August 1978), Kenya’s leader from 1963 to 1978. The earliest known photograph of Jomo Kenyatta is top row, extreme left, taken around the year 1911, when he was being trained as a carpenter by missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), Thogoto, Kiambu, Kenya
The collage above is of some forgotten Kenyans who have shaped Kenyan History: Top row, left to right: Ruth Njiiri, Dorothy Hughes, Walter Fanuel Odede, Edward Carey Francis, and Otieno Mak Onyango; 2nd row, left to right: Joginder Singh Sokhi, Jesse Opembe, Aggrey Minya, and Dr. Louis Leakey; 3rd row, left to right: Sharad Patel, Thomas Cholmondeley (4th Baron Delamere), Samson M’Maitsi, J.K. Kalinga and Eric Kotut; 4th row, left to right: Stanley Shapashina ole Oloitiptip, Dr. Benjamin Kipkorir, Senior Chief Josiah Njonjo, and Clement Michael George Argwings-Kodhek (C.M.G. Argwings-Kodhek); 5th row, left to right: David Okiki Amayo, Samson Ayodo, Timothy Muinga Chokwe, Aggrey Otieno Ambala, and Kariuki Chotara
The upper image of the two images above was taken in Kenya on Friday, 8th November 1889 in what is today known as Kamirithu in Kiambu County Kenya, a meeting between Chief Kamiri (seated centre) and officials of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEA) led by IBEA founder Dr. William MacKinnon (seated right in cowboy hat). MacKinnon Road in Kwale County Kenya, MacKinnon Road Secondary School in Samburu County Kenya, and MacKinnon Road, Kampala, Uganda, are named after Dr. William Mackinnon in upper image. There also used to be a statue of Dr. William MacKinnon at Mombasa, Kenya, erected in 1900, and removed from Treasury Gardens Mombasa on 19th February 1964. It is through such meetings and “agreements” in upper image that vast land holdings were transferred from indigenous Kenyan communities to the British. Kamirithu location, Kamirithu Secondary School and Kamirithu Polytechnic, draw their names from Chief Kamiri in upper image. The lower image of the two images above is similar to the upper image though taken nine years later in 1898 at Ngong, Kajiado County Kenya, a meeting between Laibon Lenana (2nd right) and Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate (as Kenya was known then), Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge (extreme left)
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