English In Kenya

By Tarcisio Gichunge WA M'Thirua Catholic Church was introduced in Kangeta Area, today the Headquarters of Igembe Central by Father Francesco Soldati in 1950’s. Sometimes in 1950’s Father Francesco Soldati arrived in Njia Location after he had sought permission to preach in the Northern Grazing Area of Igembe because the upper part of the Location had been reserved for the CMS (Protestants) all the way from Kangeta Town to Maua the Headquarters of the Church Missionary Society and the Colonizers from 1910’s. Father Soldati cleverly squeezed himself in-below the road from Meru Town to ...

CIVIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH IN KENYA Introduction By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema When many communities in a country are all well-informed and knowledgeable about what goes on in their good country and as there is peace, concord and harmony, the country is proud of its leaders. The leaders are the source of its legacy of tranquility and quietude, while citizens are free to criticize and get away with it. Nevertheless, many people ignore and take it for granted. Though, peace is a worthy legacy in a country. Peace fosters development in a country. In calmness and serenity, the ...

GICHUNGE WA M'THIRUA AND JOEL KIREMA Long ago in Egypt, when people went to their farms in the community, they were assigned the amount of work to be accomplished by one within one day by the size of Ibuuti or steps to be cultivated in one day in order to be justified for payment as self-assurance. Ameru were gatherers and serious farmers in Egypt. Thus, when they left Egypt under pressure and in unfriendly circumstances, they carried with them various crops, plants and animals on their long and epic journey to Mboa (Manda Island Kenya). Among the crops and plants that they brought from ...

Rev. Father Francesco Soldati, a Catholic missionary, born in Italy in 1921, came to Kenya in 1951 and arrived in Chuka Meru in the same year. He worked at Egoji mission up to August 1953 when he came to Tuuru mission, Igembe region in September 1953. Thereafter, he worked and lived in Igembe region for his entire life; converting people to Christianity; bringing development projects for the people of Igembe for over fifty years. He lived a holy life; entirely for Christ and served people of God faithfully till when he was crippled by malarial disease that forced him to be flown back to ...

THUUTHIU AND KARIBULU (SOCIAL SCIENTISTS) OF AMERU Ameru since time immemorial lived to know, respect, and honor their God. The community believed in the existence of God and embraced the existence of the next world where they acknowledged that the dead lived nearer God. Thuuthiu and Karibulu (Social Scientists) were what connected the living communities and the societies with their dead relatives and friends. Ameru community never completely forgot their dead relatives. They invoked their dead in the name of God whom they believed had taken them to the next world near Him. They therefore, ...

Brother Giuseppe Argese - Mukiri arrived in Igembe on 24th, December 1957 along with Brother John Comaron of Mujwa Mission, as an architect, but after about ten years at Tuuru Mission, and after opening Tuuru Children's Home for the Cripples; he felt the pain for the lack of water at Tuuru mission. He therefore, adopted another extra imperative role of a water engineer without realizing the future weight and the demand it place upon his shoulders in order to satisfy the community with water he had chosen to give them in the region. In 1960, along with three other Brothers, they managed to ...

INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Isaac Kaura Ngore Ameru from long ago lived in clans for cultural identity. Ameru lived as identities of their various clans and therefore, they lived decent lives in order to be acceptable in the community. They ensured that no one married his sister or a close relative. Marrying a close relative made them have deformed children and unknown diseases and other misfortunes in life. Also clan members never conducted marriage between themselves. It was anathema for a man and a woman of the same clan to marry. Therefore, a Mmeru needed to know his clan...

INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M'Thirua and Jacob Mugambi Kamau AMERU of Meru Kenya arrived in Meru from Mboa approximately AD1660, after they had escaped from Mboa when their hunting as slaves by the Nguuntune (the Portuguese) intensified in the latter part of AD 1500, and after they had been used as slaves who constructed Fort Jesus in Mombasa. When the Nguuntune realized that Ameru were strong and muscular men, they seriously hunted them as slaves for export to America, through AD 1590's and AD 1600's when Ameru managed to escape from Mboa (Manda Island) Kenya. Their epic journey through ...

AMERU KENYA BELIEVED IN GICHIARO BETWEEN CLANS INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera – Coauthor Ameru are a community of Kenya who live in Meru County Kenya. Ameru were among communities created in the Middle East like other people and lived there until when races and communities dispersed due to various reasons. Ameru crossed the Red Sea and settled in Egypt (Eenji mbuuti/Diggers of holes when planting) for centuries when they escaped from the hard rule of the rulers. Ameru meandered in the wilderness of Nubia, Ethiopia, Congo, Rwanda, and through Tanzania to...

When Victoria Caryll is offered a position at Flamingo, her aunt's family estate in Kenya's Rift Valley, she accepts - knowing full well that the move will give her a chance to see Eden DeBrett once again, the man she was previously engaged to. But she doesn't realize that coming to her aunt's home will introduce her to an unstable region still recovering from the bloody Mau Mau revolt, and to a household thrown into grief by a recent murder.

INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua The Europeans arrived in Kenyan Coast in AD 1840’s as Missionaries through John Rebmann and Doctor Ludwig Krapf who founded Protestant Missions in Mombasa in 1840’s. When British Colonizers arrived later, they started their settlements at the Coast and began their settlements in Giriamaland. By 1910, the British owned plantations in Giriamaland and they needed laborers to work in their plantations. In addition, the colonizers demanded taxes from the natives. No man had any courage to oppose “forced labor and taxes” from the colonizers other ...

Cherice Meriwether, a devoted wife and mother, vanishes without a trace. For six agonizing days, her family, friends, and the authorities scramble to uncover what happened to her. Clues surface. Secrets unravel. Tensions rise. And just when the truth seems within reach—everything changes. On the sixth day, Cherice is found. But how, why, and in what condition? That depends on who’s telling the story. Vanished: Six Days in Seven Ways is a bold and immersive storytelling experience, crafted by seven different authors, each bringing their unique perspective to Cherice’s mysterious ...

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera Without farming and cultivation, the world population would never exist because humans live on food consumption, work and prayer. Without food, work and prayer there is no human existence. All humans live because they eat food and food is produced from farms by people who cultivate their farms to feed themselves and others after they have produced excess in their farms. From long ago Ameru of Kenya were farmers and builders of the Pyramids in Egypt the country of their origin after they had crossed the Red Sea from the Middle East where ...

As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu. Caroline Elkins spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya.

A brief history of Kenya since independence and some of the major political and social developments which have taken place in the country during the post-colonial era. The author also looks at the significance of ethnicity and ethnic identities in the formation of Kenya as a nation. The geography of the country, focusing on provinces and other geographical aspects of the country, is also an important part of this study.

Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated. But for every milestone, every magazine cover, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience. An American journalist who has been living in London for a decade, Kenya Hunt has made a career of distilling moments, movements, and cultural moods into words. Her work takes the difficult and the indefinable and makes it accessible; it is razor sharp cultural observation threaded through evocative and relatable stories.

This digital, newly edited version of Malachite Lion can be considered a personal history, life actualizing travel memoir; an unplanned adventure, a modern odyssey that recounts the mysteries and paradoxes of East Africa. Follow Modlin as he journeys through the crowded, bustling streets of Nairobi, into the wilds of Masai Mara and Amboseli, to ancient, mystifying Mombasa, electrifying Malindi, and the sensuous Seychelles. His experiences as a scientist and academic have provided him with the skills to record his provocative observations, interactions, experiences, feelings and thoughts ...

Charming Stories of a Magical Childhood in East AfricaFor Rosalind, growing up in Kenya was an adventure-filled world in which risk-taking was actively encouraged while at play among some of the world's most amazing animals and larger-than-life people. Her adventures and encounters also have important lessons for today's youngsters and their parents. At the age of twelve, Rosalind was sent to boarding school in England, but when she flew home to Kenya for the holidays, she spent much of her time alone, exploring the outdoors. Rosalind was given far more freedom than most children are ...

The author looks at life in Kenya in modern times and in traditional ways including different cultures of various ethnic groups which collectively constitute the nation.

Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister, Soila, were taken in by their father’s brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond what their dowries might fetch. Fearing “the cut” (female genital mutilation, a painful and sometimes deadly ritualistic surgery), which was the fate of all Maasai women, Nice and Soila climbed a tree to hide.