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Thursday, April 10, 2014
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“OTONGLO BOY” RETURNS
#DRAMAFEST
Curtains open, lights on, action! That has been the daily
call for many a young thespian for the last three months as schools and
colleges competed for honors on stage under the theme, “Celebrating Our Diversity For
national unity.”
And this week, inside
a totally packed auditorium, Highway Secondary School’s Daniel Owira made his
long –awaited comeback after he stole the show last year with his narrative “Otonglo
Time;” directed by Clifford Nyakwar Dani.
He did not disappoint at all, to the cheers of the crowd. Booking
another performance date before the president once again for the second year
consecutively, owira stole the show this time round with a narrative calling
for Zero Tolerance towards drugs and substance abuse- directed by Apondi
Situnya.
Owira’s performance amongst the over 10,000 participants,
have aroused the sleepy town to drum beats, choral reverberations, emotional
outpouring, laughter and high spirited dance steps.
Nyeri plays host to the annual Kenya Schools and Colleges
Drama Festival.
By Embukane Vincent Libosso.
MASAKU SEVENS 3RD EDITION SET FOR JUNE 2014
#254Rugby
RAEV UP YOUR ENGINES! Get your boys and girls ready!
Machakos is once again calling! Get your vuvuzelas on board too for the 3rd
edition of the annual Masaku Rugby Sevens scheduled for June 27-29 at Kenyatta
Stadium in Machakos.
Organizers confirmed that teams from Italy, Norway, Fiji,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Uganda will be involved. Kenya Harlequin are the
defending champions of the 16-team competition. This year’s tournament will have
its prize money doubled up to sh 1million.
All top teams in the Kenya Cup league have been invited
alongside the British Army from the Nanyuki Barracks.
Apart from the main cup, there will be the schools and the
ladies categories in the championships whose mission is to devolve rugby in all
the counties.
And it is not just all play and no fun for all you Jacks out
there! With the first edition attracting 7,000 spectators and the second
20,000-this year the target is 50,000. The games kick off will be preceded by a
concert a day before at the newly established Machakos Peoples park.
By Embukane Vincent Libosso.
KENYA; WHEN DID THE RAIN START “BEATING US”?
#therewasatime
An Igbo proverb tell us
that a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where
he dried his body.
So, allow me to borrow
today from Standard Newspaper’s columnist and lecturer Dominic Odipo.
“Africa’s post-colonial
disposition is the result of a people who have lost the habit of ruling
themselves. A meaningful solution will require the goodwill and concerted
efforts on the part of all those who share the weight of Africa’s historical
burden.
Most members of my
generation who were born before Nigeria’s independence remember a time when
things were very different. Nigeria was once a land of great hope and progress,
a nation with immense resources at its disposal-natural resources yes, but even
more so, human resources. But the Biafra War changed the course of Nigeria. In
my view, it was a cataclysmic experience which changed the history of Africa.
This extract has been
taken verbatim from Albert Chinua Achebe’s latest book “There was a Country-
his personal memoir and part history of the Nigerian Civil War of the early
1960s.
Achebe, who died last
year, participated in the war on the side of Biafra- his native region as an
adviser roving ambassador. I am a big admirer of Achebe-his great strength was
his ability to write about his native Biafra or Nigeria and yet easily reach
readers from every African community and beyond.
Glance back at that
paragraph from where he begins talking about rain beating people who later dry
their bodies elsewhere and you will be forgiven if you mistakenly assume he was
writing about Kenya today. Indeed, the rain that started beating Africa when the
European discovered our continent actually beat Kenya until it was flooded. And
there was a land of great promise, hope and progress.
There was a time, not
too long ago when every student finishing Form 6 in this country either had a
university place or a job waiting for him or her.
There was a time, not
too long ago, when Eliot’s premium bread one of the best, one of the best in
the world at the time, cost only sh 7 and stayed that way the whole year!
There was a time, not
too long ago when a nurse who was reporting for duty at Kenyatta Hospital at
2pm would leave her house in Jericho at exactly 1.30pm sure that she would
catch the 1.45pm No 7 bust at the nearest stage.
There was a time, not
too long ago, when the blue sh 20 note bought you four beers at any bar in
Nairobi city Centre including the Nairobi Hilton’s Ivory Bar.
There was a time, long
after independence when you could stroll from anywhere on River Road to the
University of Nairobi halls of residence way after mid-night without being
mugged or meeting a single policeman demanding a bride.
There was a time during
the Jomo Kenyatta presidency when every Kenyan student who joined the
university was actually paid an allowance to encourage him or her to stay at
the campus.
And beyond that
allowance or boom, it was known, all the meals were free both the student and
his visitors. And there was no limit to how much one could take.
There was a time, not
too long ago, when you could stroll from the Likoni Ferry in Mombasa after midnight
past mwembe Tayari all the way to Tudor 4 without any fear of being mugged or
arrested by a corrupt policeman. So, where did the second rain begin beating
us? Because obviously, it did. Did we go the way of Nigeria without knowing?
According to Achebe, here is how Nigeria went.
Within six years of
independence, Nigeria had become an access pool of corruption and misrule.
Public servants helped themselves freely to the nation’s wealth. Elections were
blatantly rigged.
The subsequent national
census was outrageously stage managed; judges and magistrates were manipulated
by the politicians in power. The politicians themselves were pawns of foreign
business interests.
Food for thought?
By Embukane Vincent
Libosso- as inspired by Dominic Odipo.
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