Sir Georges

A free spirited mind and a lover of arts. Impossible isn't a fact, it's an opinion.

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

When you feel lost, surround yourself with things that feed your joy, like music, books, art, nature, and the laughter and kisses of the ones you adore.

[Eric @amerix]

This song is called Tres impoli (You are impolite) by Franco Makiadi, the leader of TPOK Jazz.

The song is 42 years old. It was recorded in 1984 in Gabon.

It is about an impolite, mannerless man.

The truth about this song is that Franco was impatient with a band member called Papa Ndombe Opetum, whom he sent to police remand for stealing a piece of meat.

Opetum was a stubborn, mannerless band member who, whenever he was sent to buy meat, sliced a portion for himself.

In fact, one of the songs composed for him by Simaro Lutumba, called Mbongo (Money), was later recorded by another obedient member, Djo Mpoyi, because Opetum had misbehaved.

When he sliced Franco's meat, Franco called the police on him. After staying in remand for 2 weeks, Opetum took off and rejoined Tabu Ley's band, Afrisa International.

He is seen here with Tabu Ley's band in a London Live concert, dancing like a comedian in Beyou Ciel's song Embouroumounkoue at 0:04 - 0:08 (https://t.co/isiWn6836M)

It is after Opetum left that Franco composed this song, Tres Impoli (Why are you impolite?)

My favourite verse in the song: 3:25

Chaussette etoboka - (Your socks are torn.)

Okoti na ndako ya bato oti makolo na mesa. Nzoka ezali mesa bato ba lelaka. - (You enter someone’s house and put your legs on the table. Yet people use that table to eat.)

This was Opetum's character.

Later, in 1988, when Franco was sick in Belgium, Opetum sneaked back to TPOK, where he composed two hits, ANGELA and TAWABA (https://t.co/aolQYdYCAe.)

Opetum collapsed and died in Kinshasa on 24th May 2012, aged 68 years.

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@linadreaamy 98

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@Pettikim @BoboWamboiKuria 😂😂

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@chapatimistress @C_NyaKundiH Police roadblock at Allsops, Thika Road

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

We have done a summary of the proposals that were rejected by MPs, why they were rejected, and the proposals that were passed.

Here is the deeper thread.

Save and share.

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@njeriwanjeri Agreed 💯

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@Osama_otero

[Smita Barooah @smitabarooah]

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard
https://t.co/qXi6UBaTs3

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@fokango The other day he was equipping hospital in Muranga and you didn't manage to catch it but its okay. The people there need it
https://t.co/rp20lBZT3S

[Irungu Kang'ata @HonKangata]

New Oxygen Plant ,Maragwa Hospital Maragwa

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@JAyumah @JaphethOtieno01 Wamunyoro is becoming a prophet, he warned them

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@JosephMasta2 Sasa mpige picha akisoma newspaper ya leo, any publication.

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

Well in @OrinaEsq

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@Kenyajudiciary Congratulations my brother @OrinaEsq

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@Bwiborestaurant @NanjieGalgalo How is it Nyama platter when waru (in various forms) occupies a third of the serving?

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

DEAR MEN,

If your wife has joined a running club but you haven't, SHONOKA.

I need to tell you something important.

There’s a permanent member of your family that nobody introduced properly, please allow me to.

And I need you to sit down first.

You’ve seen she wakes up at 4:30am on a Saturdays?

Not for you. Not for the children. Not for church.

For a 5am run in Karura Forest with a man called Brian who has the body of a Greek statue and the energy of someone who has never eaten ugali in his life.

Brian organizes these runs.

Brian sets the pace.

Brian decides who runs next to whom.

You need to understand what Brian looks like to understand why this is a problem.

Brian is 34.

Brian runs 30 marathons a year.

Brian has never had a beer belly.

Brian has never come home at midnight smelling of Tusker and fallen asleep mid-sentence.

Brian wakes up every morning and does things to his body that your body has completely forgotten are possible.

Your wife sees Brian every Saturday at 5am in Karura.

Then on Wednesdays in Ngong.

Then on the Vienna Loop in Karen on the last Sunday of the month.

She definitely has missed your family lunches.

She has not missed Brian once this entire year.

Now.

The run ends at 8am.

21 kilometres done.

Her legs are tired.

Her muscles are tight.

She needs stretching.

She needs a massage.

She needs somebody to hold her legs and work out the tension from the inside of her thighs that 21 kilometres of road have created.

Brian knows a place.

Brian always knows a place.

You need to see what these women wear when they run to understand what Brian is looking at for 21 kilometres from behind before the stretching even begins.

The institution of marriage is being dismantled one kilometre at a time on the streets of Kilimani.

Now here is the part that should make you put your phone down and think.

Your wife just turned 40.

The children are done.

Three is enough.

That chapter is closed.

She has looked at her life and made a quiet decision that nobody announced.

She has discovered running.

She has discovered health.

She has discovered Brian.

And while you are home on Saturday morning sleeping until 10am, scratching yourself, watching football highlights from Thursday, she is on kilometre 18 of a 21 kilometre run next to a man who has not stopped moving since 1974.

She comes home glowing.

You think it is the exercise.

It is not only the exercise.

Look at all the Marathons done last year, they all had women signing up in numbers that broke the registration system.

Thousands of women.

Suddenly everyone is running.

Everyone has discovered fitness.

Everyone in Nairobi has a running club, a running group, a running WhatsApp that is on silent when they get home.

You were not invited to the WhatsApp group.

Brian runs it.

As an elder I must warn you.

The running clubs of Nairobi are doing more damage to marriages than any bar, any office, any late night ever did.

Because she is not sneaking.

She is training.

She is healthy.

She is happy.

She is glowing every Saturday by 9am.

And you are still in bed.

We either lace up and join these women on that road at 5am or we accept that Brian is now a permanent member of this family that nobody introduced properly.

Don't say the servant of the Lord didn't warn you. 😐

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@nyabokeatera The limit on that road is 100 kph
To be safe enda tu na mwisho 100 or less. If you maintain that safari inaenda haraka

[The Blood Pressure Champion 🇺🇸🇰🇪 @zablonorina1]

DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) & Pulmonary Embolism can develop quietly and turn fatal in hours. A clot in your leg can break off and block your lungs without any warning.

If you sit long (travel, office, illness), stand up every 1–2 hrs. Hydrate. Walk. Exercise. Know your risk (obesity, surgery, smoking, contraceptives).

Watch the signs: leg swelling/pain/warmth = possible DVT. Sudden breathlessness, chest pain, coughing blood = possible PE → EMERGENCY.

Don’t ignore “small” symptoms. Movement is prevention. Awareness saves lives.

[The Blood Pressure Champion 🇺🇸🇰🇪 @zablonorina1]

Preventing Pulmonary Embolism, heart attacks & Stroke isn’t about luck. It’s about daily decisions.

Keep blood moving (avoid long sitting), control blood pressure, sugar & cholesterol, stop smoking, stay hydrated, maintain a healthy weight by cutting the belly and take your meds seriously.

Clots don’t just appear they build over time or form when blood flow slows. Movement protects you. Discipline protects your vessels.

You’re not preventing three different diseases, you’re preventing one silent process that kills in different ways.

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

Lethal enemy that one, took my partner.

[The Blood Pressure Champion 🇺🇸🇰🇪 @zablonorina1]

A clot is the same enemy but it doesn’t kill the same way.

In Pulmonary Embolism, it forms in the leg (Deep Vein Thrombosis), travels, and blocks the lungs leading to sudden breathlessness.

In a heart attack, it forms inside heart arteries after plaque rupture leads to chest pain then sudden collapse.

In a stroke, it blocks brain vessels leading to paralysis and speech loss.

Same process: blocked blood flow. Different organs: lungs, heart, brain. That’s why the symptoms don’t look alike and why seconds matter.

[Sir Georges @ManwaGeorge]

@MOH_Kenya https://t.co/vpWIdFtgx3

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Three Die In Duale Motorcade Accident:

The death toll in a road crash involving vehicles in Health CS Aden Duale’s convoy has reached three after two more people succumbed to injuries.

#NTVWeekendEdition