Good old Jomo asked that his two sons, Uhuru and Muhoho Kenyatta be taken along to face the knife as well! By Undercover Reporter Her father fed founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta yams and arrow roots as he healed from the vagaries of circumcision in Thogoto, Kiambu County over a century ago. Kenyatta, then called […]
Obituary
Kenya Air Force Commander who married house help dies on his birthday!
His children said as a father, Maj-Gen Duncan Wachira was an ‘abusive, armed and violent psychopath’ By Undercover Reporter On October 23 this year, retired Maj-General Duncan Kireri Wachira, could have celebrated his 76th birthday. Instead, the former Air Force Commander who married his house help, succumbed to diabetes and high blood pressure at the […]
John S Mbiti: ‘I am because we are, and because we are, therefore I am’
Mbiti slaved to challenge the missionary mindset which perceived Traditional African Religion as demonic and anti-Christian By Undercover Reporter He was Kenya’s foremost theological scholar on African religion. John S Mbiti, who coined the famous phrase ‘I am because we are and because we are, therefore I am” died in Switzerland, his home away from […]
Chamanlal Kamani: He came to Kenya with Sh16, died worth over Sh16 billion
Now the family not only effortlessly snapped the Diani Reef Beach Resort for Sh120 million, but also exports 90 million roses a year! The recent death of Chamanlal Kamani at 88 resurrected the billion shilling bones of this Indian family which worked hard as immigrants operating from their unassuming go down offices in Industrial, Nairobi. But […]
Mwangi Mathai: Lived, died in the shadow of Prof Wangari Maathai
When he was accused of impregnating his half-sister, Mathai left the matrimonial home for residency at the Hilton Hotel By Undercover Reporter Whenever Mwangi Mathai chanced on a business idea, he did not hesitate to cash in on it. Sizing up the near virgin market for bar soaps in Kenya, he was shortly on a […]
Ali Zaidi: Clever devil, last of the old school editors
He was an incubator of great ideas, man of profound intellect By Wambua Sammy His was a dying breed of the old school newspaper and magazine editors whose idea of sartorial elegance left the conventional types with permanent frowns. Faded denims or khakis, in his case untucked checked shirts under multi-pocketed jackets, from where his […]