Mak Mansa
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Your Favorite Realtor. I Run & Hike Sometimes! For business, Call Ray 9am-5pm EAT +254719186889
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Deep down, I want to dive deep into running & train like an elite just to see how fast I can run! Thank you so much Patrick for capturing this! It’s the first time I have a video of myself running, from which I can study & interrogate my running form! Towards the end of the video, that’s my relay team joining in to give me that much needed final push! @trp_kay you guys are the best 🙌🏾 I forgot to stop my Strava on time, resulting to an extra minute or so on my splits! #NairobiMarathonRelay
Mak Mansa31,118 次观看 • 2 个月前
A scene from The Bildad Kagia Play, depicting him arguing with Kenyatta over how land was being dished out! One of the prime crimes that happened after our so called independence is that Kenya was loaned £12.5M, to be loaned to Kenyans by the new government, for purposes of buying land from the white colonialists who wished to sell “their” land back to the natives. As we all know, banks don’t just give money to anyone; one has to prove that they can pay, that they have collateral and so on. Most of the Mau Mau fighters who had been in the forest and the detainees (prisoners of war) who had just come back from detention & prison in 1961-62 did not have collateral. Their kids had also been victimized and denied an opportunity to advance their education as the colonial government advanced the interests of their collaborators. These means that most of those who had the means and networks to acquire the loans to buy the land from the white colonialists were the colonial collaborators. In fact, while this was going on, Jomo Kenyatta’s government was busy hunting down the remaining Mau maus, killing & silencing them. Bildad Kagia chose to advocate for equity! He held to the belief that we could create a fair Kenya. He refused to be bribed with huge chunks of land and for this, he paid a price too high. At some point in the play, the narrator wonders whether Bildad’s principals were necessary in such a corrupt nation and how they played out on the people around him. For example, his children attended local primary schools instead of the prestigious schools where prominent politicians’ kids usually schooled. Bildad died in 2005 at Jericho Estate in his daughter’s house. That scene really broke my heart and my sister made a commentary on how sad his ending was, perhaps even more than Kimathi’s; the later had died hopeful that the rest of the country would carry on with the fight and win. As for Bildad, he had lived through the war, he had seen independence, but things shifted immediately. He had seen his friends like Pio Gama being eliminated for their stand against Jomo’s government. He had lived through an assassination attempt, and like most of the political class of the time, he had had an opportunity to steal public resources and enrich himself! However, the man had chosen to continue with the fight for a Kenya that could work for all, and he had lived through decades of seeing that become an impossibility. Here is a man who fought, never sold out despite numerous opportunities to, but one will be permitted to wonder, for what? For we live in a country that celebrates, honors and crowns the sell outs. You can still catch the play at the Kenya National Theatre Today!
Mak Mansa76,028 次观看 • 9 个月前
