How Jomo Kenyatta changed from being Kamau wa Muigai, to Kamau wa Ngengi, to Johnstone Kamau wa Ngengi, to Johnstone Kenyatta, and finally, to Jomo Kenyatta
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If you are suffering from constipation,
• Eat Red Plums.
• Or, Red Grapes and Pears.
• Or drink UHT milk.
Don't eat pawpaws and vegetables.
Pawpaws won't slide nyweeeeeee from your mouth to lubricate the rectum. That is a fallacy.
During constipation, you don't need vegetable fibre. They will irritate the gut, annoy bacteria, and block the exit.
Plums, grapes and UHT milk are osmotic laxatives.
Plums and grapes have sorbitol.
UHT milk has lactulose.
Sorbitol, however, is the best.
Sorbitol moistens the faeces and motivates bacteria to eat the faeces, thereby making the stool softer.
Simple. Effective. Proven.
Remember, I said, IF YOU HAVE CONSTIPATION.
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Kenya after Ruto will be better, much safer and fear free.” After who? With what coalition? Funded how? Policed by whom? You deleted the incumbent and left a blank. That is not courage. That is a brochure for a government that does not exist.If Ruto is the problem, name the replacement and the trade-offs. If you cannot, you are not predicting a safer Kenya. You are selling a feeling and hoping 2027 pays for it.
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On X, youth look tribeless.
On the ground, they are not.
Ukambani youth who are not on X are largely with Kalonzo.
Mt. Kenya: Rigathi and Ndindi Nyoro.
Kisii: Matiang’i and Arati.
And it goes on.
“ Youth are one bloc” is a timeline delusion.
2027 will be won by people who campaign where the phones are off. This is why the Opposition needs to do more on the ground.
Updated list of girls not to marry.
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5. Msichana amewahi oleka before
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Multiple generations of Kenyan primary school pupils, between around the years 1965 and 1982, were taught in primary level school Civics that the name Jomo was a combination of the names Johnstone Kamau wa Ngengi. However, Jomo may not be so much a combination of the names Johnstone Kamau wa Ngengi, as it is one of the names Johnstone Muigai. Why?
Clearly Jomo valued his biological father Muigai, more than he did his stepfather Ngengi i.e. his first son with his first wife Grace Wahu was Peter Muigai Kenyatta (1920 -1979). His son with his British wife Edna Grace Clarke is Peter Magana Kenyatta. Magana was Jomo Kenyatta's great-grandfather i.e. President Uhuru Kenyatta's great great grandfather, and one could assume that Jomo Kenyatta gave his son with Edna Grace Clarke the name Magana because Magana was born in Britain in 1943 during Jomo Kenyatta's 15 year stay in Europe of 1931 to 1946 i.e. Magana was born in a distant land to a White woman, a White woman who was also distant in a symbolic sense i.e. she was White and from another land/continent and Jomo Kenyatta was Black and from another land/continent.
Going by Kikuyu Customary Law, Peter Magana Kenyatta should have been named after his paternal grandfather Muigai or his paternal step-grandfather Ngengi, not after his paternal great great grandfather Magana, hence the assumption that Jomo Kenyatta put the generational distance in naming, owing to the fact that Magana was born in "a distant land" to "a distant woman". However an authority on Kikuyu Customary Law can clarify why specifically Jomo Kenyatta, in line with Kikuyu Customary Law, chose to name his son with Edna Grace Clarke, Magana.
Jomo Kenyatta did not have a son with his third wife Grace Wanjiku, and with his fourth wife Ngina, his first born son is Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, not Uhuru Ngengi Kenyatta. Jomo's first son with his first wife Grace Wahu, as mentioned, was Peter Muigai Kenyatta, not Peter Ngengi Kenyatta, and his son with his second wife Edna Grace Clarke, as also mentioned, is Peter Magana Kenyatta, and not either Peter Muigai Kenyatta or Peter Ngengi Kenyatta.
Clearly Jomo Kenyatta, did not quite hold his step-father Ngengi in high regard, because if he did, he would have at least named one of his sons Ngengi, which is why by extension, one could conclude that Jomo is actually a combination of the names Johnstone Muigai, rather than a combination of the names Johnstone Kamau wa Ngengi.
Jomo was also not a church goer, like Kenya's 2nd, 3rd and 4th Presidents i.e. Jomo only went to Church when he "couldn't avoid it" e.g. during weddings and funerals, though Jomo Kenyatta must have kept an Anglo-Saxon component to his names (i.e. Jo in Jomo is for Johnstone), as a tribute and appreciation to the missionaries who trained him at the Church Missionaries of Scotland (CMS) mission at Thogoto, Kiambu, around the years 1911 to 1913, training that enabled him become the founding Prime Minister and founding President of Kenya.
And in the same breath, Jomo's loyalties firmly remained with his biological mother Wambui i.e. his three first born daughters have the name Wambui i.e. Amb. Margaret Wambui Kenyatta (RIP), Jennifer Wambui Kenyatta and Christina Wambui Kenyatta-Pratt. Jomo did not have a daughter with his British wife Edna Grace Clarke, though if he did, it would have been interesting to note what name he would have given her i.e. the name of her paternal grandmother, or the name of her paternal great great grandmother, as in Magana's case.
How Jomo Kenyatta changed from being Kamau wa Muigai, to Kamau wa Ngengi, to Johnstone Kamau wa Ngengi, to Johnstone Kenyatta, and finally, to Jomo Kenyatta
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However, Johnstone Kenyatta was made aware of the fact that he would appear on the cover of his thesis/book "Facing Mt. Kenya" in Kikuyu Customary Attire which would have been regarded as a mismatch and inauthentic in those days because little was known of Africa and Africans at the time (little still is actually), and the little that was known then was of a people and a continent that was still in rudimentary stages of development, with different lifestyles from Anglo-Saxon lifestyles, meaning therefore, that Johnstone Kenyatta would have needed to present himself and his book/thesis in as raw and as authentic an African manner as possible, by dispensing with the Anglicisation to his names, by further Africanising his names. It is at this point in 1938, that he dropped Johnstone and became Jomo Kenyatta. Some accounts say that it was Johnstone Kenyatta's brother-in-law, Mbiyu Koinange, who was in London at the time, who advised that that Johnstone Kenyatta further Africanise his name, though it appears more likely that this advise came from Johnstone Kenyatta's supervisor at the London School of Economics, the legendary Prof. Bronislaw Malinowiski, who was quite a shrewd "marketeer and salesman" apart from being a renowned academic.