Peter Gakunga

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@Unseen_Archive @dntshimba There is another probably not well documented “concept of martyr” in the Kenyan church. It is embodied in the name of the original Presbyterian church for Africans in Nairobi-PCEA Bahati Martyrs Church. Have you or anyone looked into that?

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@Mkongwe003_ @andrewsuleh That’s Dr. Haroon Awan, Kenyan of Pakistani roots. He was 2 years my senior at Jamhuri High School, Nairobi. He mentored several of us through high school and on to UON medical school.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@andrewsuleh Haroon Awan, a 2nd generation ophthalmologist, two years ahead of us at Jamhuri High School. He mentored us, his juniors, through high school and to UON faculty of medicine in his own way.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@wmnjoya @Wordslinger__ That perspective is very prevalent, even beyond formal education. I, and my PCEA catechism (children) classmates were (punished) by an elder for being slow in memorizing the Apostle’s Creed. The parents applauded.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@footsoldierRow I hear you. A generation before you, 86-87, I was in Lamu, invested in delivering post UON and internship. The level of bureaucratic entrenched incompetence was enough to impact mental health.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@wanguwamajani We most probably grew up in the same Nairobi. Matatus did not exist in my neighborhood. We had copies of the bus schedules and ran to the bus stop 2 minutes before the bus. If the bus was ahead of time, the driver waited.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@mfonpalmer @Zaadillaah_Ilma Not correct. Kiswahili is a coastal Bantu language. Its linguistic underpinnings are Bantu. There are other influences, historically, and more influences continue as societies are never static.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@ForensicsKuria @itskipronoh Not JKIA, but Embakasi Airport that was built by MauMau. Transferred to Air Force in 1978 when JKIA was completed.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@victormugambi18 @NyagaCK @ivymuthe Actually Embu included Kirinyaga and was in Central Province. It was gerrymandered out of Central to protect J. Nyagah’s political interests

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@WaemaNduva @Barthigh1426681 @ivymuthe @njugunajohn718 You are correct. Actually Thagana among the Agikuyu

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@EricKigada @salty_oysters The minister for foreign affairs Munyua Waiyaki perused an anti apartheid stance, but the true powers embodied in Charles Njonjo sabotaged it at every opportunity

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@tonykaromo That’s common worldwide. In New York, there’s Brooklyn, Bronx, Long Island, Upper Manhattan and Lower Manhattan district English accents and dialects, some very different, all within the city.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@FGaitho237 @CarolineMutoko The failure is both the education system and personal agency over one’s own education. One has the responsibility of identifying the framework provided by the education system, however inadequate, and then continually building on it throughout life.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@OdenKate @itsmeMaina7 That’s unkind of them. Our encounters in our individual lives are not similar.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@roselinenjogu @OdenKate This is so well stated; as a Kenyan, I know she is only just starting her discovery!

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@thesarahmwangi @AmbMKimani I concur. @AmbMKimani

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@anto_ty Initially recorded in the 70s by Afrorock group Black Savage. He was part of this group of Lenana School students.

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@leone_ruri @anto_ty Correct. Those of us who were in school in the 70s played this version. It was an Afrorock band out of Lenana School

[Peter Gakunga @pgakunga]

@MushtaqBilalPhD @lovedropx US masters being completely useless is not a statement I expect from you. The spectrum of masters degrees is vast, and so is the utility. With as large an influence as you have, this opinion will mislead many.