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Ukweli kabsa.Ni kweli mkuu, nadhani kuna haja ya kuangalia hata hizo koo kwa pande zote hali ya hewa ikoje maana wakati mwingine watu wanaweka sehemu makazi kutokana na sehemu waliyoikuta inafanana kwa namna moja ama nyingine na mkoa husika...sijakaa Kisii ila nilipata kupita tu kwa bus, ukiangalia madhari haina tofauti sana na mkoa wa Kilimanjaro hivyo nahisi hata movement yao ukute iliangalia na ulingano wa hali ya hewa
Okay.Yes ni kwa Wakurya ila zamani wilaya ya Rorya na Tarime ilikuwa ni wilaya moja ilikuwa wanaishi Wajaluo na Wakurya ila zilivyotengena, Tarime kwa kiasi kikubwa wanaishi Wakurya na Wajaluo kiasi kwa upande wa magharibi na Rorya ambayo ilikuwa sehemu ya Tarime ambayo inakwenda mpaka mwambao mwa ziwa Victoria kwa kiasi kikubwa wanaishi Wajaluo
Its either you love politics,or your 58 n above or you just love Tom mboya,your history hata mimi nikiwa chuo sikusoma hio [emoji1] [emoji1]Tom Mboya with students of his alma mater, Mang'u High School in November 1963.
Biographer David Goldsworthy called him “the man Kenya wanted to forget.” That was Tom Mboya. Three bullets stopped his life in the afternoon of Saturday July 5, 1969. It has been half a century since that tragic day when the sun went to sleep with one of the country’s most shrewd and calculating political operatives ever.
In a population whose 80 percent are below the age of 35, the man must remain an oral narrative legend. He is a figure bigger than life itself.
I recall that Saturday afternoon and the next few months after. There are many reasons why I should. In the process, I have obviously wondered what path the country’s history would have taken, had this man lived on. It is hypothetical, in the end. Yet, the mind can’t help wandering and wondering. Where would we be today?
Would we have found the national unity that Mboya and President Jomo Kenyatta often preached? Would Kenya have stayed the powerful economic course she had begun? Would the superclass education that Mboya dreamt of have taken solid root in the country? Would we be the First World country he cherished in his visionary dreams? Would we?
Futile questions, maybe? Tom is dead and the rest is history. Yet in his passing on, he influenced both the direction and the route that his country has since taken. And yes, we are still reaping some of the not-so-wise fruits of his interventions and influence.
But so why should I think about this man, 50 years later? No single individual captured our mind and imagination as striplings in 1969 and for the next few years – certainty not until the assassination of populist politician J.M. Kariuki six years after Mboya.
I was a boy of 11, living in the same neighbourhood with Nahashion Isaac Njenga Njoroge. This was the man who would soon be paraded as Mboya’s assassin. We lived in block V 28 in Nairobi’s Ofafa Jericho estate.
Njoroge lived in block U 3, just a short distance from us. We attended the same school with his two girls and one boy. It was a small world and much of the drama happened around us. The Njenga kids went away quietly – we never got to know where. All the residents of U 3 were thrown out of their homes.
The building was veritably turned inside out, in the search for the killer’s instruments. Meanwhile Nairobi was a sad, violent and dangerous place to be in.
Kisumu and the entire Luo Nyanza went the same way. We lived under a curfew for the longest time I could remember. In Kiambu, they said, people were eating something they called kiapo. There was violence and fear in the slums of Nairobi because of this kiapo thing whatever it was. The kiapo, they said, was supposed to keep Kenyans divided along tribal lines.
They were supposed to be hostile to each other. Kiapo was, therefore, working well. And kiapo and Mboya have bequeathed Kenya with the legacy of political violence, fear and ethnic hate. Would it be different had Mboya lived? Don’t know.
Mboya was himself a great man who made great mistakes. Mama Roselyn used to tell us that he was in a rush to become the President of Kenya. She said that he exposed himself to his enemies too early. As a result, they not only cut him down to size, they snuffed life out of him.
Years later, I understood what Mama was talking about. For, was this not the man who tampered with the Independence Constitution to throw Kenya into a mess that remains unresolved almost 60 years later?
Mboya it was, who led in the abolition of devolved government in 1965. He schemed to starve the Local Assemblies of cash to the extent that everyone wanted them thrown into the fires of hell. With a small elite political cabal around him, he dissolved the Senate and admitted the Senators to the National Assembly. They got rid of the Local Assemblies and buried devolution.
Mboya introduced a constitutional amendment that simply said the President was above the law – hawezi kushtakiwa. He killed the Opposition in the independence Parliament and made Kenya a de facto one party state.
This man, Tom Mboya, jettisoned Jaramogi Oginga Odinga from Kanu when it was the only party in Parliament. When Jaramogi formed the Kenya People’s Union (KPU), Mboya – Sungura Mjanja – swiftly moved a constitutional amendment requiring MPs who resigned from their parties to also resign from Parliament to seek fresh mandate from the people.
Elsewhere, he had been a trade union leader before independence. Come independence, and he clamped down on trade union leaders. He said that trade unionism had been all right when fighting against serikali ya wazungu. Now, however, anyone saying the kind of things he had been saying was fighting an African government. They should be stopped, Uncle Tom said.
Make no mistake. Uncle Tom’s assassination and the subsequent trauma were terrible things for our country. The seeds of negative ethnicity between two of Kenya’s more populous tribes germinated in these happenings. The bad blood goes on, now under this guise then under the other. Again make no mistake. Fifty years later, we ought to face the facts.
Tom was the chief architect of bad governance in Kenya. He tampered with the Constitution to entrench bad governance. Five decades later, Kenya is still striving to undo what this man Mboya did. When he said that the President was above the law, was he doing this for Jomo, or did he see himself in that position someday soon? When he killed the Opposition, did he do it for Jomo, or was he looking at Kenya through some telescope and seeing himself in Ikulu?
Before Odinga was jettisoned from Kanu, the independence party had two wings – a radical wing and a moderate one. The radical wing assembled around Jaramogi with Pio Gama Pinto as its chief strategist.
Joseph Murumbi, who took over from Jaramogi as Vice President, was also a member of this wing. And there were others. The so-called moderate wing agglutinated around Mboya. It had people like Mwai Kibaki, later President of Kenya, the ambitious Dr Njoroge Mungai, Attorney General Charles Njonjo na wengineo.
This man called Pio Gama Pinto became Kenya’s first political assassination in February 1965-and with it, the use of murder as a tool of political elimination. And some have asked, “Supposing Pinto had lived?” As with the Mboya question, this one is also a hypothetical one. We can never tell what could have happened. For, who knows what sits in the seeds of time?
Yet, kuna vile – when we were small boys – some elders used to wink (knowingly) whenever the assassinations of Pinto and Mboya were mentioned in the same sentence. Yes, kuna vile they used to wink. This man Mboya was truly a great man who made great mistakes. Methinks Kenya would still have gone the same way she has done had Mboya lived, only that she would probably have gone a lot faster. Kuna vile, my friends.
Tom Mboya, then minister for justice addressing guests at St. John community center in Pumwani, July 1963.
Barrack Muluka is a strategic public communication adviser
www.barrackmuluka.co.ke
Since you just joined today or you opened another account to air this answer, then you don't know that years back I had a similar thread here about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; do you know who is that guy? Have you read that thread? It had a ton of documents about him, because he lived before video technology existed!Its either you love politics,or your 58 n above or you just love Tom mboya,your history hata mimi nikiwa chuo sikusoma hio [emoji1] [emoji1]
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I was a pupil in a lower primary school when this gentleman was assassinated. In Tanzania we mourned his death as if he was our own leader because it happens that he was more popular on fighting for equality across the society at that time than Kenyatta.
Buda iish sina issue but nakwambia ukweli,am kenyan n we dont read what you've posted about Tom mboya we read other staffs kumhusu,my point was uko sawa,as in congratulating you,uko sawa na history,eeeh hadi kupongezwa msee unapayuka punguza egoSince you just joined today or you opened another account to air this answer, then you don't know that years back I had a similar thread here about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; do you know who is that guy? Have you read that thread? It had a ton of documents about him, because he lived before video technology existed!
And if you don't like to know anything about him, just don't read and shut up.
If you are a Kenyan then you should have read it before I posted it here because it appeared for the first time in the Nairobian newspaper, and the name of the original author appears at the bottom of the article. I know some Kenyans are strong believers of tribal divisions, and you might be one of them aligned with a tribe that opposes Mboya's tribe. Therefore whoever speaks good about Mboya becomes your enemy too. You did not have to call me names for just positing something about Mboya, just don't read it and shut up.Buda iish sina issue but nakwambia ukweli,am kenyan n we dont read what you've posted about Tom mboya we read other staffs kumhusu,my point was uko sawa,as in congratulating you,uko sawa na history,eeeh hadi kupongezwa msee unapayuka punguza ego
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Inakaa haujui Kenya young generation hatujagrow na tribalism n thats why after few years itaisha kabisa,mi sijui tribe ni,what i know is tha am kenyan tembea kenya anyone whose 31 n below huwa ashughuliki na kitu ka hio,tribalism iko na older generation na si kwa ubaya but wanakufa soon,and one thing am 19 and culture in kenya teens dont read newspapers,tuko busy na media na Vlogging n blogging now you know,before next time utamke staff na tribalism angalia who you talking too,young generation dont do that shitIf you are a Kenyan then you should have read it before I posted it here because it appeared for the first time in the Nairobian newspaper, and the name of the original author appears at the bottom of the article. I know some Kenyans are strong believers of tribal divisions, and you might be one of them aligned with a tribe that opposes Mboya's tribe. Therefore whoever speaks good about Mboya becomes your enemy too. You did not have to call me names for just positing something about Mboya, just don't read it and shut up.
Nami nakumbuka sana siku hii. Tena ilikuwa sio miaka mingi tangu mauaji ya Gama Pinto. Bado naamini Njenga Njoroge alitumwa na Kenyatta (why don't you go after the big man?) hadi leo hii.I was a pupil in a lower primary school when this gentleman was assassinated. In Tanzania we mourned his death as if he was our own leader because it happens that he was more popular on fighting for equality across the society at that time than Kenyatta.
...... miaka sita baadaye akafuatia Josiah Mwangi Kariuki (JM).Nami nakumbuka sana siku hii. Tena ilikuwa sio miaka mingi tangu mauaji ya Gama Pinto. Bado naamini Njenga Njoroge alitumwa na Kenyatta (why don't you go after the big man?) hadi leo hii.
Hujui Kiswahili wala Kiingereza. Chunga sana kijana.Inakaa haujui Kenya young generation hatujagrow na tribalism n thats why after few years itaisha kabisa,mi sijui tribe ni,what i know is tha am kenyan tembea kenya anyone whose 31 n below huwa ashughuliki na kitu ka hio,tribalism iko na older generation na si kwa ubaya but wanakufa soon,and one thing am 19 and culture in kenya teens dont read newspapers,tuko busy na media na Vlogging n blogging now you know,before next time utamke staff na tribalism angalia who you talking too,young generation dont do that shit
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Point yako!!acha kuwa Arrogant hunijui na pia mi sikujui so hio stereotype yako about Kenya ndo tutakosania,tembea kenya kwanza before utu judge, kama hatujui kiswahili na kizungu tulifika aje penye tuko ka country n.how.do we communicate with kenyan whites n kenyan indians,aki you sound dump,nikaa mi niseme Tz hamjui english hio itakuwa stereotype coz thats what we say here.but mi siezi sema ivyo juu sijawai kanyaga Tz so ntasema ivyo after kuwa na experience na Tz but not after what society feeds,una sound tu brainwashed kalale tafadhaliHujui Kiswahili wala Kiingereza. Chunga sana kijana.
Yeah i read his history though at skull hatumsomangi sana but niliona documentary yake i think Ntv.he was the best leader,n pia niliskia alikuwa almost kuwa president...... miaka sita baadaye akafuatia Josiah Mwangi Kariuki (JM).
Ukikua utaacha.Point yako!!acha kuwa Arrogant hunijui na pia mi sikujui so hio stereotype yako about Kenya ndo tutakosania,tembea kenya kwanza before utu judge, kama hatujui kiswahili na kizungu tulifika aje penye tuko ka country n.how.do we communicate with kenyan whites n kenyan indians,aki you sound dump,nikaa mi niseme Tz hamjui english hio itakuwa stereotype coz thats what we say here.but mi siezi sema ivyo juu sijawai kanyaga Tz so ntasema ivyo after kuwa na experience na Tz but not after what society feeds,una sound tu brainwashed kalale tafadhali
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Assimilation my friend.mtu wa kabila A anasafiri anafika sehemu mpya inayokaliwa na kabila B, anajifunza lugha ya kabila B,anaoa mwanamke wa kabila B ,wakizaa mmtoto atajua lugha ya pale alipokulia,na mila pia,na huyo mtoto akioa anaoa hapohapo na mwanamke wa kabila la hapo,mjukuu wa yule babu wa kwanza anakuwa ana sir name ya kabila A Lakini anajinasibu na identity ya kabila B and the rest is history.Natoka Moshi,Uchaggani huko....
Cha ajabu I wonder how do these people from Lake Victoria ended up on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro?
It is very very far away!
Mfano mdogo tu huu hapa:
Ukoo wa Njau upo Uchaggani na upo Ukikuyu!
Ukoo Kimath upo Uchaggani na upo Ukikuyu!
Ukoo Mboya upo Uchaggani na upo Ujaluoni!
Ukoo Kyara upo Uchaggani na upo Taveta!
Ukoo Mworia upo Uchaggani na upo sijui Ukikuyu!
Waria upo Uchaggani na upo Wajir!
Ukoo wangu binafsi unafanana exactly na jina la ukoo mmoja from nadhani Kakamega!
Sasa unashangaa,hawa watu walikutana tu sehemu na wametoka sehemu mbalimbali halafu wanajijengea kabila lao jipya au wanafanyeje?
Na I'm sure kujenga kabila liliokamilika sidhani kama inachukua chini ya miaka 1,000!
Understanding this phenomenon is really beyond me!
Nadhani wiki moja tu baada ya Tom Mboya kuuwawa, wakati bado tuna majonzi, ikatangazwa kuwa Apollo 11 ya Mmarekani impetua mwezini ikiwa inaendeshwa na wamarekani watatu!It was a terrible incident, I was a high school student in western Kenya during the Tom Mboya’s assassination though I am a Tanzania(currently residing thousands of kilometers away from the African continent)!!He is the one who indirectly created President Barack Obama the first Black American President since he is the one who organized the training of young Kenyans who pursued university education in America, Baraka’s father being one of the students!! Tom was not a socialist/communist like Hon Jaramogi Odinga, he was a capitalist but a true nationalist. There was havoc in Kenya and especially in Western Kenya, he was extremely intelligent, he lived and behaved like a Gikuyu, envied and admired by people from all walks of life.
For your information Mboya's tribe has never been opposed in our country's political history.so stop stooping to low. moderate your language if you want to engage people in a friendly manner.If you are a Kenyan then you should have read it before I posted it here because it appeared for the first time in the Nairobian newspaper, and the name of the original author appears at the bottom of the article. I know some Kenyans are strong believers of tribal divisions, and you might be one of them aligned with a tribe that opposes Mboya's tribe. Therefore whoever speaks good about Mboya becomes your enemy too. You did not have to call me names for just positing something about Mboya, just don't read it and shut up.
And for his information tribalism only appears in Kenya during electioneering period ,I don't think that tribal is that bad in our country cause we intermarry ,we work for each other and we live together so these folks should spare us their stupidity.Inakaa haujui Kenya young generation hatujagrow na tribalism n thats why after few years itaisha kabisa,mi sijui tribe ni,what i know is tha am kenyan tembea kenya anyone whose 31 n below huwa ashughuliki na kitu ka hio,tribalism iko na older generation na si kwa ubaya but wanakufa soon,and one thing am 19 and culture in kenya teens dont read newspapers,tuko busy na media na Vlogging n blogging now you know,before next time utamke staff na tribalism angalia who you talking too,young generation dont do that shit
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…...so, you concur that tribalism exists, only that Mboya's tribe is just on the periphery in that view; correct? Are you aware of his relationship with the late Obama?For your information Mboya's tribe has never been opposed in our country's political history.so stop stooping to low. moderate your language if you want to engage people in a friendly manner.
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