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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Impunity wrote:hardwood wrote:Another day in the market. The banianis must have been amused.  Yaani we didn't fear mosquitoes and other biting insects? Why couldn't we have full leather clothes covering out entire bodies? A similar question was asked by Alexander the great to the naked philosophers of India.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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tycho wrote:Impunity wrote:hardwood wrote:Another day in the market. The banianis must have been amused. Yaani we didn't fear mosquitoes and other biting insects? Why couldn't we have full leather clothes covering out entire bodies? A similar question was asked by Alexander the great to the naked philosophers of India. The okuyo were always fully clothed in real leather.  
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Mombasa, Zanzibar, Seychelles in the 1930s. Am surprised they were very advanced unlike watu-wa-bara who were still walking naked. What i really didn't like is the mzungu commentator calling African dances "childish".
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/18/2018 Posts: 121
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Just amazed at how well planned,clean and modern for the time...Most people then it seems were lean and healthy.. Welcome to Nairobi 1971 https://youtu.be/YUpx2-T6DEgCe n’est pas si grave...
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/5/2011 Posts: 1,059
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 To Each His Own
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/15/2011 Posts: 4,518
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Iganamagana wrote:murchr wrote:Traffic on Uhuru Highway in 1967  Where did the trees go? wow and  the trees?? There was no westlands,I bet the next shop was in naivasha.. delamere. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Hmmmn wrote:Just amazed at how well planned,clean and modern for the time...Most people then it seems were lean and healthy..
Even the mzungu tourists were very smart......1960s.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Old Nairobi was EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for the natives.... https://www.nation.co.ke...1260-39uxg6z/index.html
Quote:Killing Africans was sort of a favourite sport by the whites. Some of the notorious cases included the shooting of 21 unarmed Africans outside the Norfolk Hotel in 1922. It was a common feature for a white settler having an evening drink at the terraces of the Norfolk or the Stanley Hotel to draw his rifle and aim at an African passing by in the distance.
Such a settler would be wildly cheered and offered a drink by colleagues, especially if his shot was so “perfect” that it killed the African at the first aim!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/3/2008 Posts: 4,058 Location: Gwitu
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hardwood wrote:Another day in the market. The banianis must have been amused. Some communities in Kenya still dress this way. As late as 1960s,Okuyos were wearing mithuuru! Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
(James Russell Rowell)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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