KICHWANGUMU

Sending As Received! Please be careful out there! There appears to be a serial killer in Dar. He just did it again. Shot a driver in the neck and the unfortunate driver died instantly at kinondoni, the road between mkwajuni and magomeni. He did the same thing the day before yesterday at bagamoyo road. He is said to be light skinned and drives a motorbike. Please be careful as you drive since this man will purposely cause an accident and then pulls out a gun and kills the driver of vehicle. Kindly Send this information to the ones you care for...

Died on 05th March 2013

A Dictator’s Last Laugh (Ngugi on Kenyan politics) By NGUGI WA THIONG’O,  Published in THE NY TIMES of Friday, March 15, 2013. IRVINE, Calif. I MUST have been about 10 in colonial Kenya when I saw men, women and children in a convoy of lorries being forcibly removed from their land and relocated to some dry plains they called the land of black rocks. They sang a sorrowful melody, but one that described their love and solidarity in hardship: even when they picked a morsel from the ground, they split it among themselves. It was an image that captured vividly the ideals of mutual care and collective hope in the Kenyan anticolonial resistance. In my first trip to Europe, in 1965, virtually the entire village saw me off at the airport. They said: You must return home. But much of my career has been spent in exile. My novel “Devil on the Cross” was scrawled in my mother tongue, Gikuyu, on toilet paper from a maximum-security prison in 1978. That was the last novel I wrote there.

  Ilikuwa ni siku ya ijumaa tarehee 9 saa 12.30 asubuhi nilipokuwa nasafiri kwenda tanga kumzika bibi yetu mkubwa kupitia njia ya bagamoyo. Kilomita moja kabla ya msata. Gari linaloonekana kwa karibu ndilo lililonivaa na kupasuka engine hapo hapo. Gari nyeusi porini ndo gari nililochomoka humo na tulikuwa ndugu wannne. Peke yangu ndo nilitoka bila jeraha. Mmoja alivunjika mguu wa kulia, mwingine nyonga ilishtuka, na mwamnamke mmoja aliumia kizazi, aliyevunjika katoka hospitali jana (12th March 2013), na wote bado wapo nyumbani. Mdau Erick Kwa niaba ya Kichwangumu blog na mimi mwenyewe, nawapa pole kwa ajali na maumivu. Pia, nawasihi waathirika wote tumshukuru Mungu kwa sababu hakuna aliyepoteza maisha. Poleni sana mdau Eric na ndugu zake.

The successful team in a jovial mood in one of the events @ Diamond Jubilee hall in DSM.

  How to fold a nappyi!   8 track tape for the car   Technology every family MUST have, no blackberry, iPhone or HTC...   Bags of our times...   A very famous game by then...   Drive inn...   The styles...   Need me say more...

  The place to be on that day...   During lunch...   The cake...   Kata keki tule...   Fungua champagne tunywe... Congratulating them...

  The Nyama choma... top and below.   From left to right are Adam San, Mella San, and Shimoya San taking a photo of the nyama choma on top.   Madam Yoko San at the middle with her mother inlaw right and her daughter left watching the nyama choma being prepared for lunch.   From left are Munguti San's wife, his daughter and himself (with a cap), Kishimba San with a red t-shirt followed by Yoko San laughing at something.  It was a nice moment for all of us... having fun and enjoying the nice nyama choma lunch.