A word has reached us that the world wide leader of the Sikh religion will be visiting the Sikh Temple and University College in Kericho,Kenya on the thirtieth day of the month of January.This was told to us by the University's Principal during an interview with him on the morning of the twenty ninth day of the same month in the morning as he went on with the preparations to receive his guests.
It was said that the leader will be arriving in the country from the UK and that he will be here on Private and religious business only .
The religion has been contributing a lot to the bettering of the lives of the small Kenyans .They have built bridges ,the university college,and much more in this region alone .There could be much more out there in the other parts of the country.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
PETROL TANKER LOSES CONTROL AND BURSTS INTO FLAMES
A petrol tanker lost control at masarian crashed in to a saloon injuring the trucks driver and conductor plus the saloon cars driver on the twenty seventh date of the month of January the two thousand and ten .Masarian is about ten kilometers from Kericho town center..The tanker bust in to flames immediately it stopped rolling and burned a half way and also burnt a half an acre of a teas plantation .
The casualties were admitted at the Kericho district hospital.The cause of the fire was not clearly known but eye witnesses guess that it could be because of the sparks form the trucks batteries.
The casualties were admitted at the Kericho district hospital.The cause of the fire was not clearly known but eye witnesses guess that it could be because of the sparks form the trucks batteries.
TREE OF DEATH IN KENYA
There was a story in the kenyan press in the nation news paper about this tree .It was a weird and blood chilling story that is not far from the voo doos and human sacrifices that we have been hering about ,and the truth is that the story can not be far from witcraft ,soucery and religious miinformation.
A tree at Chaka trading centre in Nyeri has earned the reputation of the ‘tree of death’. Troubled people, some from as far as 20km away, are trooping to the trading centre to hang themselves from it.
Local police don’t know what to make of it. Villagers claim seven people have hanged themselves from that one tree in the past year. Police said they could only confirm two. Officers said Peter Muchiri, 25, and Stephen Gathara Kaburia, 40, hanged themselves on that tree within a month of each other.
The two came from Ruring’u, Nyeri, although they did not know each nor were they related, according to relatives. Mr Kaburia, a butcher, left home on a Friday to go and look for a cow for slaughter. He even called his wife, Ms Monicah Gathara Karaya, to say he would be home for lunch.
Four days later, he was found hanging from the tree of death, 20km from his home. The rope around his neck was the one he had carried to lead the cow back home. Police said nothing was stolen from him; even his phone was still in his pocket.
Locals said he was dropped off by a taxi a few metres from the place where his dangling body was found, although police investigators could not confirm this. Last week, Mr Karaya, 25, a lorry driver, was found hanging in the same spot.
According to his mother, Ms Tabitha Karaya, Mr Karaya had said he was going to Nairobi on the day he died. His lifeless body was later found on the tree of death. According to witnesses, his shoes were neatly arranged and the rope carefully slipped over the top of his pullover collar.
Same spot
In his pockets, police found a puzzling, roughly scribbled suicide note, thanking his young wife for giving him a baby boy before signing off with the words “Dhambi ni dhambi” (A sin is a sin).
Are the two deaths related or was it by pure coincidence that the two were found dead on the same spot? That is what police are trying to figure out. Relatives are mystified too. “As far as I know, the two did not know each other, and we are not related in any way,” says Ms Karaya.
“Now we know each other very well, although we are not related,” says Ms Monicah Gathara, Gathara’s wife, now a widow with three little children. Nyeri police boss Kirunya Limbitu described it as a strange coincidence. “It is puzzling. Normally, suicidal people kill themselves within their home area. These ones, it seems, travelled 20 kilometres to kill themselves,” he said.
Locals maintain five more bodies have been found hanging from that tree. Inevitably, it has become a source of fear and superstition. Some want it cut down, others swear never to touch a leaf of it. “I have seen four bodies removed from this spot. I think these trees here are cursed,” area resident Nderitu, 22, says. Police are asking the locals to volunteer information to help solve the case. They have opened inquest files, but there is not much in them.
A tree at Chaka trading centre in Nyeri has earned the reputation of the ‘tree of death’. Troubled people, some from as far as 20km away, are trooping to the trading centre to hang themselves from it.
Local police don’t know what to make of it. Villagers claim seven people have hanged themselves from that one tree in the past year. Police said they could only confirm two. Officers said Peter Muchiri, 25, and Stephen Gathara Kaburia, 40, hanged themselves on that tree within a month of each other.
The two came from Ruring’u, Nyeri, although they did not know each nor were they related, according to relatives. Mr Kaburia, a butcher, left home on a Friday to go and look for a cow for slaughter. He even called his wife, Ms Monicah Gathara Karaya, to say he would be home for lunch.
Four days later, he was found hanging from the tree of death, 20km from his home. The rope around his neck was the one he had carried to lead the cow back home. Police said nothing was stolen from him; even his phone was still in his pocket.
Locals said he was dropped off by a taxi a few metres from the place where his dangling body was found, although police investigators could not confirm this. Last week, Mr Karaya, 25, a lorry driver, was found hanging in the same spot.
According to his mother, Ms Tabitha Karaya, Mr Karaya had said he was going to Nairobi on the day he died. His lifeless body was later found on the tree of death. According to witnesses, his shoes were neatly arranged and the rope carefully slipped over the top of his pullover collar.
Same spot
In his pockets, police found a puzzling, roughly scribbled suicide note, thanking his young wife for giving him a baby boy before signing off with the words “Dhambi ni dhambi” (A sin is a sin).
Are the two deaths related or was it by pure coincidence that the two were found dead on the same spot? That is what police are trying to figure out. Relatives are mystified too. “As far as I know, the two did not know each other, and we are not related in any way,” says Ms Karaya.
“Now we know each other very well, although we are not related,” says Ms Monicah Gathara, Gathara’s wife, now a widow with three little children. Nyeri police boss Kirunya Limbitu described it as a strange coincidence. “It is puzzling. Normally, suicidal people kill themselves within their home area. These ones, it seems, travelled 20 kilometres to kill themselves,” he said.
Locals maintain five more bodies have been found hanging from that tree. Inevitably, it has become a source of fear and superstition. Some want it cut down, others swear never to touch a leaf of it. “I have seen four bodies removed from this spot. I think these trees here are cursed,” area resident Nderitu, 22, says. Police are asking the locals to volunteer information to help solve the case. They have opened inquest files, but there is not much in them.
Monday, January 25, 2010
ANOTHER KENYAN WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a peace activist from north Eastern Province, is the winner of a global award, the 2009 Hesse Peace Prize which she received in Germany last week.
Her peace activism is long and chequered, having started the Wajir Peace Committee in the early 1990s to try and end persistent clan wars in the region.
A the time, her passion was to see peace prevail in a region where hostile clans were in a permanent war mode. It did not occur to her that the world was watching. And last week on Thursday, Ms Abdi scooped the global award that told her that her efforts were not in vain.
Wajir was under emergency law from 1963 to 1990, with government forces fighting an active guerrilla movement (the Shifta war). When the emergency and quasi-occupation ended, the security situation deteriorated even more.
There was an open conflict which claimed 1,500 lives, and which resulted in a lot of hatred between different clans.
In 1992, Ms Abdi and other women as well as concerned men started a grassroots peace initiative, bringing together people from all clans.
Despite opposition from the traditional clan leaders, they began to organise mediation between the warring parties (with representatives of minority groups acting as moderators).
When an agreement was in place, they set up the Wajir Peace Committee, with representatives of all parties — clans, Government security organs, Parliamentarians, civil servants, Muslim and Christian religious leaders and NGOs — to implement the agreement.
Ms Abdi, who had been working as coordinator for a mobile primary health care project for nomadic people, was elected as secretary of the peace committee hence undertaking dual roles.
The model developed in Wajir, which Ms Abdi describes as “a peace and development committee - a structure for responding to conflict at a local level”, was used again in 1998, when the Christian community in Wajir experienced some violence.
Ms Abdi assisted in the formation of a disaster committee of Muslim women to assist and make amends with the Christian community. They held prayer meetings with Muslim and Christian women, in which both shared their experience and thereby strengthened their relationship.
Subsequently the Wajir Peace Committee began to include Christian women, leading to the formation of an inter-faith committee for peace which has undertaken further activities to intervene in religious conflicts.
Fostering inter-faith dialogue and attempting to resolve tensions and conflict between religions has been a central focus of Ms Abdi’s activity since her first involvement in working for peace, and her methods have now been copied not only elsewhere in Kenya, but in Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Africa.
In addition, Ms Abdi has taught in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Canada, Cambodia, Philippines, Ghana, Nigeria, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, and the UK.
Ms Abdi now lives in Mombasa and works on peace, conflict and development issues with a number of organisations. She also raises funds to support community groups in peace-building and communication infrastructure and continues to work for the Wajir community with young people to create economic development.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
A FILM MADE IN KENYA AND ANGERED SUDAN
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An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
By EDDY NGETAPosted Friday, January 22 2010 at 18:48
Even as dark rain clouds pepper the skies over the barren hills overlooking Kikopey in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, inhabitants of these vast plains are unaware of an even larger shadow looming over their heads, occasioned by a possible international standoff over their participation in a controversial film.
The government of Sudan has petitioned its Kenyan counterpart to intervene and stop Danish film makers from releasing a movie. The movie blames Kenya’s northern neighbour for widespread genocide in the Darfur region. The film, Havnen (Danish for revenge), is centred around the war in Darfur and the vicissitudes of life for a group of refugees living in a town on the banks of river Funen in Denmark, and is scheduled to be released in August, this year.
According to media reports, the director of Sudan’s Department of Conflict Resolution and Management, Omer Dahab, has allegedly submitted complaints to the Kenyan embassy in Khartoum, saying that the film has racist contents. He contends that it will negatively affect ethnic harmony in Darfur.
The same reports quote S. Somaya, the Sudanese government spokesperson at its embassy in Nairobi, as saying that it is misleading for the film producers to shoot the movie in Kenya using 2007 post-election violence victims, and then claiming that the location in question is Darfur.
Ms Somaya claims also that the IDPs were lured with low pay, and taken advantage of because they could hardly afford to reject the offer. But IDPs who participated in the film beg to differ. Take 15-year-old Esther Nyambura who has called the IDP camp in Kikopey home for nearly two years now.
She and her parents were displaced from their Narok home at the height of the 2008 post-election violence and fled to the Naivasha showground, from where they were moved to the Ebenezer camp in Kikopey.
Absentee parents
Her mother Ann Waithera, and father David Maina are virtually absentee parents. They have been gone for weeks now, and she doesn’t know where they are. They occasionally drop by to give her money for food and then disappear again for days on end without telling her where they are.
The diminutive but energetic teenager, who at her tender age acts as both father and mother to her five siblings — feeding, clothing and taking care of their every need almost single-handedly — bubbles with enthusiasm and absolute joie de vivre, or the joy of living. True, life has been hard for the Standard Seven pupil at Mukinduri school, but when the film crew dropped by in October, bringing with them an unprecedented financial windfall, Esther was right in the thick of things.
For her trouble, she got five full days of sumptuous dishes and more money than she had ever had in a single day — enough to buy herself a new pair of shoes, a school bag and a new pen, besides presents for her brothers and sisters. It all started in early October when a bus-load of strangers drove up to the camp, clutching an introductory letter from the Naivasha district commissioner’s office and asked to see the IDPs.
The film crew first arrived at the camp on October 1 after scouting the country for an ideal location for their movie. After explaining their mission, they drew up and signed a written agreement with the IDPs, saying that the IDPs understood the purpose of the film shoot and that they had agreed to take part in it for a daily wage.
The crew then pitched camp on the hillside, peppering its slope with a sea of dark green tents. They stayed there for almost a month building the movie set, only leaving on Sunday November 1 after the shooting. For power, the residents say they used a heavy-duty generator which lit up the whole camp.
They brought with them also hundreds of tall, dark strangers whom the IDPs claim were of Nubian origin. “They spoke fluent Kiswahili and Sheng, so I think they are Kenyans,” says Lucy Wambui, a 30-year-old mother of three who was also chosen for a role as supporting cast.
“They told us that they had been picked from Kibera (slums) in Nairobi,” she adds. “I think they picked our camp because it looks like a desert. It is dry and windy, and has a lot of dust,” says John Mwangi, the Ebenezer IDP camp committee, who acts as their spokesman. The film was shot between October 20 and 24.
Internal refugees
An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
By EDDY NGETAPosted Friday, January 22 2010 at 18:48
Even as dark rain clouds pepper the skies over the barren hills overlooking Kikopey in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, inhabitants of these vast plains are unaware of an even larger shadow looming over their heads, occasioned by a possible international standoff over their participation in a controversial film.
The government of Sudan has petitioned its Kenyan counterpart to intervene and stop Danish film makers from releasing a movie. The movie blames Kenya’s northern neighbour for widespread genocide in the Darfur region. The film, Havnen (Danish for revenge), is centred around the war in Darfur and the vicissitudes of life for a group of refugees living in a town on the banks of river Funen in Denmark, and is scheduled to be released in August, this year.
According to media reports, the director of Sudan’s Department of Conflict Resolution and Management, Omer Dahab, has allegedly submitted complaints to the Kenyan embassy in Khartoum, saying that the film has racist contents. He contends that it will negatively affect ethnic harmony in Darfur.
The same reports quote S. Somaya, the Sudanese government spokesperson at its embassy in Nairobi, as saying that it is misleading for the film producers to shoot the movie in Kenya using 2007 post-election violence victims, and then claiming that the location in question is Darfur.
Ms Somaya claims also that the IDPs were lured with low pay, and taken advantage of because they could hardly afford to reject the offer. But IDPs who participated in the film beg to differ. Take 15-year-old Esther Nyambura who has called the IDP camp in Kikopey home for nearly two years now.
She and her parents were displaced from their Narok home at the height of the 2008 post-election violence and fled to the Naivasha showground, from where they were moved to the Ebenezer camp in Kikopey.
Absentee parents
Her mother Ann Waithera, and father David Maina are virtually absentee parents. They have been gone for weeks now, and she doesn’t know where they are. They occasionally drop by to give her money for food and then disappear again for days on end without telling her where they are.
The diminutive but energetic teenager, who at her tender age acts as both father and mother to her five siblings — feeding, clothing and taking care of their every need almost single-handedly — bubbles with enthusiasm and absolute joie de vivre, or the joy of living. True, life has been hard for the Standard Seven pupil at Mukinduri school, but when the film crew dropped by in October, bringing with them an unprecedented financial windfall, Esther was right in the thick of things.
For her trouble, she got five full days of sumptuous dishes and more money than she had ever had in a single day — enough to buy herself a new pair of shoes, a school bag and a new pen, besides presents for her brothers and sisters. It all started in early October when a bus-load of strangers drove up to the camp, clutching an introductory letter from the Naivasha district commissioner’s office and asked to see the IDPs.
The film crew first arrived at the camp on October 1 after scouting the country for an ideal location for their movie. After explaining their mission, they drew up and signed a written agreement with the IDPs, saying that the IDPs understood the purpose of the film shoot and that they had agreed to take part in it for a daily wage.
The crew then pitched camp on the hillside, peppering its slope with a sea of dark green tents. They stayed there for almost a month building the movie set, only leaving on Sunday November 1 after the shooting. For power, the residents say they used a heavy-duty generator which lit up the whole camp.
They brought with them also hundreds of tall, dark strangers whom the IDPs claim were of Nubian origin. “They spoke fluent Kiswahili and Sheng, so I think they are Kenyans,” says Lucy Wambui, a 30-year-old mother of three who was also chosen for a role as supporting cast.
“They told us that they had been picked from Kibera (slums) in Nairobi,” she adds. “I think they picked our camp because it looks like a desert. It is dry and windy, and has a lot of dust,” says John Mwangi, the Ebenezer IDP camp committee, who acts as their spokesman. The film was shot between October 20 and 24.
Internal refugees
MONEY MISTAKES
Time is what we want most and waste the worst,” observed writer William Penn. Our spending habits are another classic paradox of something we so passionately pursue and then so inappropriately dispense.
And this despite the availability of financial facts, trends and reality that would propel one towards achieving goals and ultimately financial security and freedom.
Many are still making bad or self-depreciating decisions that are regressive rather than progressive in the long run.
*Sue has been working in a bank for almost two years now after getting her first degree. She considers herself quite financially savvy and has her plans well laid out.
She intends to take out a loan for a new car and move out to a better location where her car will be safe, and perhaps take a home loan after that.
*Patrick, a first-time father, says his priorities have to change to give his son the best chance at life. So he has opened a junior savings account in which he intends to deposit money often.
And he certainly agrees with spending more time at home now but doesn’t agree with his wife about cutting down on going out on weekends or evenings with his colleagues and friends.
Furthermore, he does intend to take out an education policy with an insurance company when the boy is a little older.
*Millie, a public secondary school teacher in her early fifties, doesn’t agree with her advisor at the bank where she wants to take a mortgage about where she should buy a home.
She has been shopping for a house for months and has chosen a three-bedroom apartment in a secure, serene court off Mombasa Road.
Her mortgage advisor feels she should consider her remaining working years and go for a home in another location such as Athi River or Kitengela or take a construction loan and put up a house there so that she is not struggling with a loan on retirement.
Millie intends to teach in a private school upon retiring and is, therefore, confident that she can handle the mortgage.
Mr Danson Mutethia, an investment consultant with Fortune Advisors, points out the flaws with all the above plans and other mistakes we need to stop making that create roadblocks.
1.Here is the first commandment in financial management that most of us know but ignore – live on less than you earn.
“Carefully draw the line between things you want and things you need so that you see where you can cut down on expenses, especially in circumstances that include a new addition to the family,” Mr Mutethia emphasises.
Friday, January 22, 2010
POVERTY COULD BE ANOTHER CAUSE OF THE POOR PERFOMANCE
I watched the Kenya certificate of primary education resultsof all the schools in kericho town and i must accept that poverty could be a cause for the big difference between the performance of all the schools in the town.Holy trinity primary school was another school with very good results .I went and watched the school population and i really was surprised at what i discovered .then i went to kericho primary school ,it was worse here .And when i went to the highlands primary school \,Then i discovered something that i wished that every body would listen to me.
I realized that the two schools ,Kericho primary school and Holy trinity primary school had an almost similar environment that was very different from that of the Kericho highlands primary school and that of the Saint Patrick primary school.The first two schools had an environment that displayed the life of a well of pupil and the second group of schools displayed the typical life of a low class kenyan pupil .
Judging from the above observations ,it is obvious that the results of the exams were affected by the quality of the lives of the pupils .Those with high quality lives had the best while the others had the worst .There is no way that we can escape from this situation though .,The only good solution lies with the Kenya national examinations Council.
The Council has to be careful the next time that they will be making the exams so that the poor pupils from the villages or the slams can have a chance .Your questions in general ,must come in favor of both environments so that poverty can not be a reason next time.And may this apply to all levels of education in the country.Be it in the high school or university levels.
We can't keep on blaming poverty like this ,everyone is gonna sit at home in a few years time .There has got to be a solution of this kind.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
DEALERS AND CUSTOMER EXCHANGE BITTER WORDS BECAUSE OD A LOG BOOK
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
LET THEM QUIT THE FOREST - TO SAVE THE CLIMATES !!!!!
I have listened to all the debate about what is going on in the Mau forest and i have also been following waht is happening to the environment and i decided that let whatever goes on in parliament or in the stadiums or wherever Kenyans might be gathered go on but ,nothing can turn my mind around .I have been seeing it in the news on the television and and i have read about it in the newspapers and so on .That was then and it used to happen to other people out there in other aprts of this world .Little did i know that this thing would come up to my country and ,to my own doorstep.
The news about what is happening on the top of mount Kenya really scares me .I caused an awareness in me that never existed before.It was when i read about it in the papers that i knew that the situation was very serious .It was said that due to the dreaded damaging climatic changes ,all the snow on the top of the mountain had melted .There was no more snow on the mountain and that ,very soon ,the plants and animals around me in my environment will soon be having there own share of the pains that are caused by this climatic changes ,including me of course !!!!!
This is what is going on in this universe and the experts ahve already announced the only choices available to continue holding the universe for a little while longer before it goes of course!!!THey said that the only thing that could save the climate was for mankind to stop destroying the remaining forests .We are lucky in kenya here to have afew acres of forests and ,what is remaining is to protect them as much as we can ,no matter what the costs will be .
WE will all be behind the president and the prime minister in every step that they will be makin g in the conservation of the remining forests and we are not going to step back an inch.No matter what it will cost ,every one is gonna spare some space for the forests .
What ever property was built in the forest lands ,in including the Kiptagich Tea factory and the mansions or what soever was built on that land without the help of a surveyor,may they be relocated to other parts of the country and may they be compensated well to avoid the wrangles and to save the time .Every body must quit the forests!!!
Monday, January 11, 2010
THE WATER SUPPLY OF KERICHO TOWN IN KENYA IS A SHAME.
When the elders at the kericho municipal councils offices decided to expand the water suplly some twenty years ago ,The thought the had solved the poeple's water problems in the town.To them ,they thought taht they had built a very big project that would provide a lifetime solution to the areas water supply problems .Little did nthey know nthat what they thought was a magnificent job done would last only twenty years and then every one in the town will be seen again wandering aroud the place in search of good water.
It has been only twnety years since the water project was officially opened but it looks as if There is no water project in the town .The situation is no better than waht it was before .Today ,the residents of the town get clean water in their taps only twice a week and the rest of the times ,they are dry.You have to worry about your work ,then go worrying again about water in the estates.The situation is really bad .
The thing is that the next time that the will try to build or expand the water supply of this place ,let them draw a very good plan so that whatever they will build will solve the peoples forever . A country as smart as Kenya with such water shortages ,is a shame .We are too good for such minor problems.
It has been whispered that the elders at the town hall are again thinking on how to expand the current facilities of the water project and that work on it can start any moment from now .May they do a sensible thing and not bring shame in the name of a water supply again.
It has been only twnety years since the water project was officially opened but it looks as if There is no water project in the town .The situation is no better than waht it was before .Today ,the residents of the town get clean water in their taps only twice a week and the rest of the times ,they are dry.You have to worry about your work ,then go worrying again about water in the estates.The situation is really bad .
The thing is that the next time that the will try to build or expand the water supply of this place ,let them draw a very good plan so that whatever they will build will solve the peoples forever . A country as smart as Kenya with such water shortages ,is a shame .We are too good for such minor problems.
It has been whispered that the elders at the town hall are again thinking on how to expand the current facilities of the water project and that work on it can start any moment from now .May they do a sensible thing and not bring shame in the name of a water supply again.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
SHENG IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT THE KERICHO YOUTH CENTER ,KERICHO,KENYA
Posted by John Ambuli on Monday, November 24, 2008
http://johnambuli.synthasite.comSHENG IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT KERICHO YOUTH CENETER
For many years since our child hood ,the language sheng has been existing and widely used by Kenyans .No one used to take it seriously as a language though and mostly it was taken to be a language for the street people or borntowns .It was linked to the evil ways that were caused by the modern ways of life .Everyone who was heard speaking the language was taken to be either a coneman or a gangster or any other of ther evil behaviours in our towns and cities that we know.Therefore the language and it’s use have been feared by many because of the above reasons.
The Origin of the language can not be easily traced unless we consult the experts of linguistics ,otherwise most of us found the language being used aand only those who came before us can know it’s origins or if any experts might have taken his or her time to research and find out about this.For those of us who grew up in upcountry urban places ,we can klnow alittle about it’s origin because we have used it and we can tell what is going on from our experiences.The uneducated people from up country used to have difficulty filling up the languges ,both English and Kiswahili and therefore they used to mixed them whichever way they could find it possible to use them and be understood .That is all that we know about the origin of the language .
The language ,however,has not received any formal attention from the experts of linguistics in this country ,though the language has been growing rapidly and it’s use almost matching or out doing that of the two official languages i.e Kiswahili and English.It was only mentioned in the press sometime ago that one linguist was working on producing a dictionary for the language users but it has been a long time since then and the gentlemanm has never been heard of ever since that time .Despite all that goes on about linguistics in this country ,but the language still commands a lot of following .Those who used to speak it in the past forty five years since independence are the current viollager elders and they are still using it ,meaning that the language is gonna become a third official language oin this country .There is nothing that we can do about it ,we can not sotop trhe public from using it ,it is not possible .so whast is remaininbg is to make it an official language punctually and let the experts of linguistics work on it and mould it into a form that can be fit to be used nationally.
For the first time in history , there is a social center in kericho town where the language is accept officially to be used by the peiopel .At the Kericho youth centere ,the language is among the three officiall accept languages to be used by all those who visit the place .The languages are ,ofcourse ,English and Kiswahili.
This is a big step in the growth of the languge and soon we could be using it in public places as a language .Say ,during public celebrations or the other nationally functions .The language has started attracting attention ,especially in up country urban places and it is time that the experts of linguistics ,that in the Kiswahili and English languages ,ought to do something about it.
No one sees the language as a sign of arrogance anymore in this country especially in the up country urban places and evry body feels proud to use tit .It has become a sign of civilization and sophistication and not whgat it was in the past .Ones any body pronounces a thing in the language ,he or she is understood straioght away that he or she is a civilized person and he or she is awarded the respects of a gentleman straight away .
LET those who deal in linguistics in our universities or the other places of that like research and see if we can introduce it in the schools or not .The thing is that sheng is already a language and there is nowhere we can go or any thinmg we can do to stop it from spreading,let us just embrace it and purify it and have as one of our national languages .
Even the Kiswahili language came about the way .IT happened when the Arabs met the firs Bantu people .This one ,happened when our fore fathers met civilization for the first time .The languages mixed up to form what we now call she.ng .There fore it is a language already andit is already in use in some places in the country officially
Saturday, January 9, 2010
KERICHO PEOPLE TOO CRUEL TO ANIMALS ,KENYA
I have watched what some of the farmers from the villages look like concerning the care that they gicve to their animals and i have come to realise that ninety nine percent of the are very cruel people .They don't care what ever happens to the animals ,whether they eat or not and when they fall sick ,they can't spare even a coin for calling in the veterinay doctor to look at the animals .
The remaining one percent that perhaps can call in an animal doctor to look at them when they are sick are the few educated one among them.Otherwise the rest do not have even the informnation that animal doctors exist.Otherwise it is this ignorance that is the main cause of all the bad things that we do see happening to this animals around us ,especiaaly in Kericho town
The worst affected animals are the donkeys .This animals produce quite alot at home yet they aren't given the proper care that they deserve .It is In Kericho ,Kenya ,that the situation is worst.The native peopel here use the animals to trnsport luggage of all kinds and then they leave the animals loitering on the living areas of the town as if they do not have owners.
This people seem to have a problem of ignorance.When their donkeys fall sick ,they come and abandon them in the estates in the living areas of this town so that there is a site of sick donkeys everywhere ,others dying on the roadsides .The donkeys are left carelessly without no one to take care of them so that they go wandering allover the living areas causing a very bad site.
The small people of Kenya need some education about What being cruel to animals means and everything towards that direction ,otherwise they will continue to get as much as possible out of them when they are still alive and when they fall sick ,they lose hope of them ever recovering and throw them away .
We have the information that there exists anti cruelty to animals organizations in this world but we have never seen even one practically and there fore ,this is a call to all of them that The peopel of this places are really in a bad sitution ,especially concerning the donkeys .The animals that they value mos are cows and dogs and avery few of the value cats .The rest of the animals are left out.
There is only one Asian business man in the town with awareness about this thing that we call anti cruelty to animals and he is really working hard aginst it .He hangs a banner in his shop that reads ,care for your donkeys ,and the entire town name him after the donkeys .His nickname in the town is Sigiriet ,it means donkey in the vernacular language of the people of this area.Sigiriet is the only person in this places with such knowledge ,otherwise the rest of us are as ignorant as the ancient zinjanthropus .People who do not know anything about such things The town is in a very bad condition and the animal specialist need to do something about this.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF POWER
I have an idea here . I was wondering why in this world radios and Televisions,Fans ,lawn mowers and other house hold appliances have been modified to start using solar power .If phones and watches can use solar power why not other household appliances .Even cars Nd railway engines .Mankind is working hard to get an alternative source of power apart from the fossil fuels that produce a lot of harmful substances and gases in to the atmosphere .Solar power is an alternative and by now ,we should have swithced from the harmful kinds of fuel to the none harmfull ,solar power eing among .
Well ,i have this thought and would wish to woek with anyone to bring it into reality.Any help to enable me to archieve this will be highlly accept .I not a trained scientist but this will serve as an idea.May any of my readers help and direct me to where and how i can engineers to work on my idea .
The davidsons of the united states are hard to communicate with. Because of connectivity problems on the internet .May i hav eyour help please.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
ALOT OF HYPOCRISY AND NIGHT WORSHIPPING
I had really grown used to night worshiping in my town .The services used to start at six o'clock in the evening then they could go on up to dawn the following day .However ,i have one problem about this ,that it was very easy to tell the genuine prophets from the rest that the holy Bible speaks about in the book of revelation .MY dear readers ,i happened to be a victim and I'm really finding it had to believe any of this preachers .Just what is right and what is not ?Who is who and who is not ?What the hell is happening in this world ?
THe prophet in our church cheated me and raped my wife and because this involved religious matters ,i couldn't go any where to punish the man !!OOOhhh! how i hate this gentlemen ,when i see them moving around in the white robes ,i alnmost spit on to them .
He destroyer my newly formed family and life has been a hell since then ,no money ,no job,no everything .I really hate to hear the shouting empty praises to the creator yet they are no better that Lucifer himself .The problem in our current world is ,who will save us from the hypocrisy and not being baptized so as to see or reach the kingdom of heaven .BE warned they are like zebras ,you can't tell the differences until when you've been hit .Believe dear!!!They liars !!!
The governments action to silence them was a very good do!!!Praises for the minister.And i mus say that hes was a very brave man to have taken that move.It is very hard to talk about anything to do with religion .Ohh God come save us from the shame .
THe prophet in our church cheated me and raped my wife and because this involved religious matters ,i couldn't go any where to punish the man !!OOOhhh! how i hate this gentlemen ,when i see them moving around in the white robes ,i alnmost spit on to them .
He destroyer my newly formed family and life has been a hell since then ,no money ,no job,no everything .I really hate to hear the shouting empty praises to the creator yet they are no better that Lucifer himself .The problem in our current world is ,who will save us from the hypocrisy and not being baptized so as to see or reach the kingdom of heaven .BE warned they are like zebras ,you can't tell the differences until when you've been hit .Believe dear!!!They liars !!!
The governments action to silence them was a very good do!!!Praises for the minister.And i mus say that hes was a very brave man to have taken that move.It is very hard to talk about anything to do with religion .Ohh God come save us from the shame .
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
NO HELP FOR ME FROM THE GOVERNMENT --WHY?
It is really terrible what happened to me in one government office.I know how to write ,then i went there for assistance .They spent five years with my novel manuscripts .In the first week of the month of january two thpousand and ten when i went there to collect the help ,i met what i never expected.I was told that there was no help for me .Believe it or not ,but i push a hand cart for a living though i can write aabut finances are the problem and no one is rready to help me .I walked out of the office very sad up to inside with all hopes of ever brightening my life gone .It means that i will push the hand cart all my life
I wish i can get some one to help and direct me on to how i can get sponsors for people like me .Some people are really animals in the inside.
Monday, January 4, 2010
READING STOPPED WHEN I FINISHED SCHOOLING
I'm afraid of what is going in our country Kenya ,or to put it simply ,in our african society .Writers do not have a place .THe peopel view them like just hawkers or something worse on the streetsor to put better .like the hooligans who cause chaos and riot at football matchesin the stadium. .Writers don't get the respects that they deserve .
The thing is ,very liitle peole go on reading anything after school and writers are having no place to go with their works .Ask them the reasoN and they will answer you that they had finished schooling long ago .Ask them again if they didn't want to add anything on to what they learned in school and they will answer you that reading is for kids.They left it to their kids when they left schooling,that is when they held their degrees in their hands ,they immidiately pushed their reading materials to their offspring.
It is really hard to get to make the african people to understand that their is always something in every article that you will come across and that if yopu wanted to add something in to your normal life ,then reading is always the best way to gain it.
I'm sorry that the psychology in them is still that of the old days where people went to school just to get a chance to get work in the offices .How do we make them to understand what is going on?May the academic organizations on the continent come to our help!!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
CURIOSITY COST ME MY AD SENSE ACCOUNT
OH my dear readers ,could some please come quickly to my help.The other time i placed adsensae on my blog ,Thene the ad sense displayed ads from my country.I didn't to get so much information from country Kenya .I had been always thinking that the internet was only for the developed world ,i was shocvked the much that i could get from my country .
Due to the curiosity ,I found my self spending quite alot of time looking at the ads and the clicks counting in their hundreds !Guess waht happend to my account? It was closed and now i am desperately searching for advertisers to use my blogs .
May any one with information about this come to my help.
ANY KENYAN ON-LINE WORK AT HOME JOBS?
Is on-line work real in my beloved country Kenya?beloved readers i have never come across anything real on-line apart from the writings that i read on the sites or could there be some technical secrets that i don't understand .May someone tshow me how to get 100% Kenyan work at home jobs on the 'net .Everything that i do come across either has it's origin in Europe or in the united states.We have learned and known how to use the internet .
Please show us if there are any other advertisers on the 'net other than ad sense .
Saturday, January 2, 2010
GANJA FARM
There was this gentleman who was walking on the streets of Kericho town .The man wasn't even scared at all .he wasn't even worried at all about what would happen if at all he came across copss any moment .The man was wearing a white cool shirt smartly decorated with the images of the cannabi sativa plant and on the back and chest there were this words ; GANJA FARM.THanks for the adjustments in the Kenyan constitution,people like this gentleman would have seen fire at Nyayo house
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