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Last month saw the passing on of a great friend and mentor who shall remain nameless for the sake of his family. He seemed to me to have all of lifes answers. He died aged 62. Whisky did him in. Here are a few of the answers he gave to life's many...
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A man arrived at the border post of Kenya from a neighbouring country. He came riding a bicycle.Behind him was a sack laden with something. The customs official on duty duly stopped him and asked him what it was that he was carrying on the sack. 'Sand.'...
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Cops in Kenya have really evolved. Not much but its noticiable. They now have badges in their chests inprinted with their full names and service nos. Not so while i was a young man. I had just been employed and was free to use my salary as i wished. So...
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I have just arrived in Dar es salaam. I go to my favourite guest house and book my room. I pay 20000 Tshs which is enough for two nights, the minimum duration i can stay. Tommorow involves some vigorous buying of the goods that i intend to resell in my...
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MY cousin Kariuki was by all standards a wise man. He was a naval officcer in the Kenya Navy, with the rank of a corporal. His base was Mtongwe in Likoni on the mainland side of Mombasa. He was married with two kids. He had saved little by little and...
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One day I was walking down the street in Nanuyki and just as I passed Settler's Store I happened to look down and see what looked like a tire tread on the ground. This was not a whole tread like you might see on the side of the highway when a retreaded...
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After you have joined, go to the main Blogs page by clicking on the 'Blogs' tab at the top of the screen. On the right hand side you will see a colunm that has a section called 'Blogs'. In that section you will find this link: Blogs on...
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Wachira was well known in town because he was a tout and a Rasta. A tout is a person who works at the bus 'stage' and makes sure that the matatus go out as packed with humanity as they can be. Since anyone who traveled from Nanyuki to Nairobi...
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One day while I was walking down the street I happened to pass an outdoor welding 'shop'. As I watched, a welder without a helmet, put a cigarette in his mouth, leaned over to his work, shut his eyes, and lit his cigarette off an arc that he sparked...
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During my first week of living in the Rift Valley I went hiking with my a member of my host family and some fellow Peace Corps Volunteers to the edge of the Abedare Plains. I was amazed when I reached the top and saw that the Rift Valley literally stopped...
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Here is the definition of tout from thefreedictionary.com: "To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way." One day my friend Wachira who was a tout of a Speed Taxi , handed me an agreement that he had come up with and...
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Here is an article that appeared in "The Laikipia Focus" in July 1997: "Suicide - A British couple and their pet dog committed suicide early this year at their Nanuki home. The man, Peter, is said to have injected himself with a poisonous...
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Administrator's Note: This was originally a post in the Tanzania forum from kimosabi which I copied here to kimosabi's blog as it is a good post for a blog. -Ron I leave Nyeri town in Kenya where i reside early wednesday morning, My intention...
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At the compound where I lived in Nanyuki , we had a night guard which is called an askari in Swahili. He would stand outside for 12 hours a night in the cold air that comes from living on Mt. Kenya. One day our askari was replaced by someone else. After...
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One day I was at the Sportsman's Arms hotel in [Nanuyki] treating myself to some satellite TV and a nice cold Coke. Sportsman's Arms was about the only place in town where you could get more than the one state-run TV channel which was known for airing...
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One morning I was sitting in Mother's Choice restaurant in Nanyuki eating a samosa which is a triangular shaped meat pie and drinking a hot mug of chai which is tea with lots of milk and sugar in it. I was facing the back door which opened into the courtyard...
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Here is a picture of a 'Speed Taxi' out of Nanyuki . As you can see, four people have to sit in a seat that is only big enough for three people. Each trip on public transportation in Kenya is white-knuckled ride. The volunteer that I replaced in Nanyuki...
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Here is a picture of an mkokoteni which is how many goods are moved through towns in Kenya. Typically, these are made from the rear axle of a pickup truck so the mkokoteni is quite heavy even when it's empty. I have actually seen a whole car carcase being...
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I served in Peace Corps from 95' through 97' not including 3 months of 'in-country training'. I lived for the remainder of my tour of duty at the base of Mt. Kenya in the small 'frontier' town of Nanyuki . That time of my life was certainly instumental...
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