When an individual ‘bought off’ a nation

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  Times Reporter  

When former Kenyan dictator Daniel Arap Moi played host to Agathe Kanziga, widow of former Rwandan military dictator Habyarimana in the 1990s, many people believed he was consoling her and giving her survival tips in life as a widow considering his decades experience as a separated old man.

The case of Felicien Kabuga, however, has shown what money can do in that country.

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the history, the beliefs of Legio Maria Church mission: from the lens of a top adherent and scholar

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Legio Maria was founded on 9th April 1963 at the home of John Baru in Suna Migori. Before that day, Simeo Ondeto had gone through a huge transformation from a Roman Catholic auxiliary catechist to a highly treasured prophet, but he had never been recognized as God by the huge multitudes that visited him to listen to his grabbing preaching about the Kingdom of God. And while he had previously said he was the son of God sent from heaven by his father to give glory to the faithful of God, the message did not win the hearts of men. And they still called him the risen prophet.

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Experts can’t work out why coronavirus is spreading so slowly in Africa

by Louis Staples in people

Mutahi kagweKenya’s Minister of Health giving updates on Covid-19 in one of the Press conferences (Nairobi-Ke)

Since the coronavirus pandemic began spreading across the world, experts have been fairly united in the belief that it’s an extremely serious threat.
But there’s one part of the world that’s dividing opinion in the public health community: Africa.
Other continents, from North America to Europe and Asia, have struggled to contain the pandemic, with cases continuing to rise everywhere outside China – yet Africa has registered a tiny number of confirmed cases by comparison.Read More »

The Ruthless UAE repressive ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.

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February 2018.

“My father is the most evil person l have met in my life. There is nothing good in him. Am free. ”

Immediately Sheikh Al-Maktoum learnt of his daughter’s treachery, he launched an international woman hunt for her. By then Latifa was deep deep in the Indian Ocean. But Latifa got excited and made one mistake. She opened her phone which she had been advised to close until she lands in America or anywhere. She then sent a text to her family members to celebrate her freedom. It is then that the king’s communication surveillance gadgets picked her deep deep in the Indian ocean outside UAE territorial waters.

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Ernesto Che Guevara to Fidel Castro – the last letter

« Year of Agriculture »

Havana, April 1, 1965

Ernesto Che Guevara

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Fidel:

At this moment I remember many things: when I met you in Maria Antonia’s house, when you proposed I come along, all the tensions involved in the preparations. One day they came by and asked who should be notified in case of death, and the real possibility of it struck us all. Later we knew it was true, that in a revolution one wins or dies (if it is a real one). Many comrades fell along the way to victory.

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The Great Ugenya history………

By Vincent Okoth Ongore,

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 Jo Ugenya are descendants of Omolo. Ragenya had five direct descendants : Ger, Puny, Boro, Muot, Nyada, Deje. Nyada was assimilated into Alego, and later moved to Homa Bay with some members of Khan (kagan). JoBoro mainly occupy central Ugenya near Ambira, and some parts of Sega, spilling over to busia around Bumala. Jodeje (kateg) are mainly in East Ugenya, in got nanga, jera, ligose, ralak, mauna, lela and surrounding areas. Jokanyamuot are mainly between rangala and sidindi. Some of them are in gem areas. Read More »

Orengo alone has stature to take over Raila’s empire…..

BY GODFREY SANG

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James Orengo is no ordinary politician. He is a straight-shooting, fire-breathing, threat-making politician, who has no kind words for President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee government.
The Siaya senator has proved his loyalty not only to the idea of a Raila Odinga presidency but also its reality. Orengo is one of the longest-serving and most-experienced politicians. He became an MP at age 29.Read More »

A LOST LEGACY…Prof. Ouma Muga

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So Professor Ouma Muga died and no media house has even aired this?! 😲 Very interesting nation where uneducated thieves are folk heroes. One of the best brains 🧠 the country has ever seen. In fact his birth was prophesied. How I wish his death would be prophesied too. Professor Ouma has died poorer than the poorest of people. According to the Homabay Political Pundit, very few young people know of him but when you ask anybody above 40 years from Rangwe constituency who he is, they will tell you what a brilliant individual he is. Born and raised in a remote village-Kochia- in Homa Bay district, he went through what any other boy would experience while growing up.Read More »

Okatch Biggy: dared to counter the conformists with a variation of the sound that instantly set him apart from the crowd

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The benga genre has greatly contributed to the overall quality of Kenyan music over the years. And no one really changed how benga is perceived countrywide like Okatch Biggy.
At a time when benga sounded the same in the 1990s, Okatch dared to counter the conformists with a variation of the sound that instantly set him apart from the crowd.
Born in 1954 in Ujimbe, Siaya County as Elekia Mathayo Okatch, he first tried boxing at the age of 21 at the Railways Club in Kisumu, a move that saw him nicknamed Biggy because of his large body frame.
A decision to pursue music as a career came to Biggy in 1977 when he joined Kiwiro Jazz Band as a drummer. He later left to team up with Daniel Owino Misiani of Shirati Jazz Band, also as a drummer. Read More »