Only three people in Kenya knew of assassin Nahashon Njenga’s execution By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large Tom Mboya, the nationalist politician, was assassinated this week and later buried in an emotional ceremony on July 14, 1969. Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge was found guilty of shooting Mboya’s 39 year old body, after a trial that left more […]
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Wagwan, Your Honour: Meet Kenya’s first Rastafarian lawyer!
Kenyans think Rastas are about dreadlocks, reggae music and ghetto life; but it’s a natural progression towards self realization By Mbatia wa Njambi Visiting Thinker Rastafarians will now have one of their own at the High Court and ‘Ras Mathenge’ will have his plate spilling with pending issues for ‘I and I’. One is, Rastas […]
August 1, 1982: Future President hid in dirty store, MP took rifle, ran to the bush!
He emptied the safe, burnt all sensitive documents in a bonfire, waited for soldiers to shoot him By GW Ngari This week, 40 years ago some misguided junior soldiers from the Kenya Air Force, attempted to overthrew the government with Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga in the mix that August 1, 1982. Baba and his […]