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butterflyke
#1 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:13:18 PM
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On the kwaheri board leaving thika municipality, there is the tagline that Thika is "the Birmingham of Kenya".

Really? How unoriginal and unpatriotic.

I hope other locations will not follow suit like, "Turkana the Kirkuk of Kenya".
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Impunity
#2 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:26:23 PM
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Nairophy the Mumbai of Kenya!
Kisumu the Big Apple of Kenya!?
Lolest!
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Ngogoyo
#3 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:08:43 PM
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butterflyke wrote:
On the kwaheri board leaving thika municipality, there is the tagline that Thika is "the Birmingham of Kenya".

Really? How unoriginal and unpatriotic.

I hope other locations will not follow suit like, "Turkana the Kirkuk of Kenya".


Is information that hard to get butterflyke?!.....get the reason behind the tagline and you post here, that's the least you can do before posting
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chiaroscuro
#4 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:25:51 PM
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In the 70s, Thika was the industrial capital of Kenya. It had more industries than Nairobi! So people started calling it the Birmingham (industrial capital of England at the time) of Kenya... and it stuck.

Today, I think it should change that to the Cambridge of Kenya since it has more than its fair share of universities (JKUAT, Mt Kenya, are all Gretsa headquartered in this town). Just like Cambridge UK and Cambridge USA
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#5 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 4:57:25 PM
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Ngogoyo wrote:
butterflyke wrote:
On the kwaheri board leaving thika municipality, there is the tagline that Thika is "the Birmingham of Kenya".

Really? How unoriginal and unpatriotic.

I hope other locations will not follow suit like, "Turkana the Kirkuk of Kenya".


Is information that hard to get butterflyke?!.....get the reason behind the tagline and you post here, that's the least you can do before posting

You totally do not get where @butterflyke is coming from.
He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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mnjoro
#6 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 5:05:12 PM
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chiaroscuro wrote:
In the 70s, Thika was the industrial capital of Kenya. It had more industries than Nairobi! So people started calling it the Birmingham (industrial capital of England at the time) of Kenya... and it stuck.

Today, I think it should change that to the Cambridge of Kenya since it has more than its fair share of universities (JKUAT, Mt Kenya, are all Gretsa headquartered in this town). Just like Cambridge UK and Cambridge USA

And one of the leading drunkards zone in central.Pray Pray Pray Pray
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harrydre
#7 Posted : Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:17:10 PM
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All these years we've been fighting to decolonize the mind but for every one step forward, we make 2 backwards. Whatever the reasons behind that sign does not warrant copying other countries (especially UK's) city names Sad
i.am.back!!!!
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butterflyke
#8 Posted : Saturday, April 07, 2012 8:55:33 PM
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harrydre wrote:
All these years we've been fighting to decolonize the mind but for every one step forward, we make 2 backwards. Whatever the reasons behind that sign does not warrant copying other countries (especially UK's) city names Sad



my sentiments exactly...
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