From the moment Johnstone Kamau Ngengi arrived in London, the British Empire’s capital, on March 8, 1929, it was obvious his stay would attract interest.
Margaret Njambi, a revered and feared mganga and traditional healer was a big name in her Muthiga village in Kiambu County. Although she died in 2017 aged over 120 years, Kenyans learnt about her in 2011 when Citizen Television tried filming her secretly.
During the time of Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta, the political game was well orchestrated and controlled by the STATE. The powerful first president used to throw his political weight on his candidates of choice guaranteeing that they became members of parliament.
He has a road named after him along Ngong Road in Nairobi. George Padmore, a Pan-Africanist intellectual with a communist flair from Trinidad, and whose entry into founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s reshaped his view of political world order.
Surrender: Are we controlled by the Machines? You decide. Back in the days of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyans were of the same mind. Today, many have migrated into the western world and the western world has, through technology, migrated into the villages.
Did you know that Jomo Kenyatta could speak German? Did you know that Jomo Kenyatta could speak German? Jomo Kenyatta must have also been fluent in Russian too, to a certain good extent.
Missing: Where is Uhuru’s big brother Peter Magana? In a 1978 photograph taken during the funeral of founding President Jomo Kenyatta, Peter Magana is seen sitting third, after the late Margaret Wambui and Peter Muigai, itself symbolic because he was Mzee’s third oldest child.