The East African Tuskers tour of Zambia and Zimbabwe of March 1982

Players and management of the Rugby Football Union of East Africa (RFUEA) East African Tuskers tour of Zambia and Zimbabwe of March 1982
Top row, left to right: Clint Caleb Oguya, Rod Evans, Fred Oduor, Geoffrey Deane, David Evans, Jimmy “Green” Owino (RIP), Dan Kimoro, Bruce Evans, Frank Ngaruiya, Peter Akatsa;
Middle row, left to right: Jackson “Jacko” Omaido, Tom Oketch, Beth Alunga “Smith” Omolo, Godfrey “Chief” Edebe, Johnny Yakas, Tom Cunningham, T’Challa Raposo, Alan Ramsay, Arthur Kibisu, Chris Onsotti (RIP);
Bottom row, left to right: J.B. Nyamwange (RIP), Ken Sagala, Mark Riley, Evans Vitisia, Dennis Awori, “Mad Max” Maina Muniafu, Patrick Alukwe Wakhu, Andy Pryce, Rob Bertram (Tour Manager), John Velzian (Team Medic);
Images of tour members absent on accompanying collage: Douglas Wekhomba (RIP), David Nsubaga, Tony Githuku (RIP), Ron Penhale, Bill Okwirry (Assistant Tour Manager).

Five movies filmed in Kenya of the years 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1984, and three documentaries about Colonial Kenya of the years 1985, 1989 and 1999. Movies and documentaries at below Facebook links. Details also below in brackets after Facebook links i.e.

  1. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10216226121508458 (i.e. The 1955 movie “Simba,” 1 hour and 35 minutes long, about Kenya’s independence movement, filmed in Kenya, and starring Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna and Earl Cameron)
  2. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214311692248923 (i.e. The 1956 movie “Beyond Mombasa,” 1 hour and 26 minutes, filmed in Kenya, and starring Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed and Leo Genn);
  3. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214313546175270 (i.e. The 1984 movie “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle,” 1 hour & 51 minutes, filmed in Kenya, and starring Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott and Princess Elizabeth of Toro);
  4. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10211465506456057 (i.e. The 1957 movie “Something of Value,” 1 hour and 53 minutes, filmed in Kenya and about Kenya’s independence movement, starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter and Sidney Poitier);
  5. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10215155365820235/ (i.e. The 1952 movie “Bwana Devil,” 1 hour and 19 minutes, filmed in Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and California, USA, about the man-eating Lions at Tsavo, Kenya, during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda Railway Line between 1896 and 1901, and starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and Nigel Bruce);
  6. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10215235970555303 (i.e. “Altitude, Alcohol and Adultery,” a 52 minute 1989 BBC documentary on life in Colonial Kenya’s “Happy Valley”);
  7. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10211305607418681 (i.e. The Kenya episode of “End of Empire,” a 63 minute year 1985 documentary on the end of colonial rule in Kenya, a documentary by Granada Television of the United Kingdom);
  8. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10212436171002064 (i.e. A 50 minute “Secret History” feature/documentary of the year 1999 on Kenya’s independence movement by Channel 4 News of the United Kingdom).

19 Facebook links below with “old school” Kenyan music. Details in brackets below after the links

  1. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/posts/10215313322929064/ (Johnston Mukabi – “Mtoto si nguo”);
  2. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10215432124979041/ (I. Johnson Mukabi and Francis Masanga – “Bibi mzuri nyumbani,” II. Johnston Mukabi – “Kunywa Kidogo,” and III. Johnston Mukabi – “Watu wanasema uongo”);
  3. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10215314857647431/ (Two versions of “Mtoto si nguo” i.e. by Johnston Mukabi);
  4. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10213565133025409/ (3 minute music combo of “Malaika” performed by Angelique Kidjo & Mariam Makeba at 3 different times);
  5. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214745262087898/ (“Malaika” version of the year 1980 by “Osibisa”);
  6. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10215354739764459/ (“Jamriambo” (2012), by Iddi Achieng);
  7. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10212491776672171/ (Miriam Makeba performing “Malaika” live in 1969);
  8. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10215054305813798/ (Gidigidi Majimaji – “Ting badi malo”);
  9. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214786178390780/ (“Folk Song – Kanyoni” by Jabali, originally composed & performed by Francis Njoroge in 1983);
  10. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214497159245482/ (Nameless’ original “Megarider” (1999) and the 2019 remix);
  11. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10212802373636901/ (“Zulukru’s” year 2001 Kenyan hit single “Khasupuu”);
  12. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10211307134416855/ (The 4 minute, 14 second 1997 hip-hop version of “Malaika” by “Swahili Nation”);
  13. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10212804569811804/ (The track “Nyon Tiendi Piny” from “Gidigidi Majimaji’s” year 2000 album “Is Marwa”);
  14. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10212486742506320/ (“Malaika” by Miriam Makeba, circa the mid-2000s);
  15. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214454360095530/ (The song “Fuata Nyayo” (circa 1981), by Kakai Kilonzo);
  16. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214919018351696/ (Eight “Fuata Nyayo” songs from the Daniel T. arap Moi presidency in Kenya of 1978 to 2002 – 25 minutes);
  17. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10212967804892579/ (“Lost in love” (1978) by the now defunct University of Nairobi music group “Gravity”);
  18. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214786183750914/ (The songs “Forever Yours” (1981) and “Shuffle to the Beat,” by one time University of Nairobi Music Group “Gravity”);
  19. https://www.facebook.com/mwananchi/videos/10214892122279311/ (Orchestra Les Mangelepa – “Maindusa”).