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RT @KBCChannel1: "We should never entertain leave alone consider the thought of laying our hero, the legendary broadcaster Mambo Mbotela at…
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When friends set out for a journey during a rainstorm, the tallest holds the umbrella while the shortest leads the way. A tete-a-tete with .@KevinMigwe insightful, informative and futuristic.
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When friends set out for a journey during a rainstorm, the tallest holds the umbrella while the shortest leads the way. A tete-a-tete with Kevin Migwe Kimwatu insightful, informative and futuristic.
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We should never entertain leave alone consider the thought of laying our hero, the legendary broadcaster Mambo Mbotela at Langata Cemetery. The least we can do is either at Uhuru Gardens Heroes Corner or at City Park alongside our 2nd Vice President Joseph Murumbi.
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Sam Nujoma, the revolutionary Pan African, anti-apartheid activist and the first President of Namibia signed off late in the weekend. Nujoma is the last of Africa’s founding fathers after the departure of Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Seretse Khama, Amilcar Cabral, Modibo Keita, Kenneth Kaunda among others. Nujoma was a founding member and the first president of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) that played an important role as the national liberation movement in campaigning for Namibia's political independence from South African rule. Later in 1962, Nujoma established the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) that launched a lethal guerrilla war and later a lengthy Namibian War of Independence against the apartheid government of South Africa which lasted from 1966 to 1989 operating from neighboring Zambia, Angola and Botswana. It is instructive that from 1960 Nujoma went into exile in Tanzania where he was welcomed by Julius Nyerere and travelled on a Tanzanian visa as he rallied International support for the Namibian course. Namibia finally achieved independence from South Africa in 1990 and Nujoma was elected as the country's first president on 21 March 1990 and served until 2005. Nujoma retired as SWAPO party president on 30 November 2007. He published his autobiography Where Others Wavered in 2005. He has received multiple honours and awards for his leadership, including the Lenin Peace Prize, the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize, and the Ho Chi Minh Peace Prize. The Parliament of Namibia honoured him with the titles "Founding President of the Republic of Namibia" and "Father of the Namibian Nation". In 2007 SWAPO named him "Leader of the Namibian Revolution".
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Patrice Lumumba, seen here detained incommunicado in a plot orchestrated by a combination of Congolese politicians and their Belgian “advisers,” with the tacit support of the Western powers and the malign neglect of the United Nations. He would be assasinated days later setting an obnoxious neocolonial trend that has never been reversed 64 years later. They plucked by the best amongst us with the support of our avaricious greedy kinsmen.
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To the US, probably the oldest modern democracy in existence. At what point do you allow personal whims informed by narrow parochial interests form part of your foreign policy? While at it, given the TOR of DOGE, wouldn’t it have been ideal for it to be established by an Act of the Congress?
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A man who has no gift for speaking says his kinsmen have said all there is to say.
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Zechariah 4:6 Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. #BlessedSunday
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Galatians 4:7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. Blessed Sunday
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In 1884 we had the Congo Conference christened the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Today, we are having the Dar es Salaam Conference of 2025. The later seeks to address the challenges brought about by the former, we are tuned in. @WilliamsRuto @SuluhuSamia @PaulKagame @KagutaMuseveni @FelixUdps @_AfricanUnion
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US President @realDonaldTrump has sanctioned South Africa over the enactment of Expropriation of Land and her stance against Israel in the .@International Criminal Court - ICC. What are your thoughts?
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Growing up, my siblings and I would gather around the paterfamilias on Saturday afternoon’s as he tuned his transistor radio to MW 1, .@RadioTaifaFM .@KBCChannel1 Radio. And from there came a deep, commanding voice that shaped my formative days( instilling morality, decency, principles and values that I still hold dear. That solo voice was that of Mambo Mbotela, a towering figure and legend in our broadcast media industry with his trademark program; “Je, Huu Ni Ungwana?” For decades, Mambo Mbotela was a household name in our nation, shaping conversations and playing a critical role as our North Pole to national dignity, principles and values. Fast forward, when I joined the KBC Board of Management, inspired by the nostalgia of my formative years, together with other Directors, we sought to bring back legendary broadcasters back on television and radio. Among other programs, The Legends Edition quenches Kenyans nostalgic thirst for principled value driven talk shows. This saw the reimergence of legends like Fayyaz Qureshi, Topi Lyambila, Edmond Mudibo, Catherine Kasavuli (RIP), Salim Manga, Badi Muhsin and Leonard Mambo Mbotela among others back to broadcast. At no point did I ever imagine that Mambo Mbotela would log out of studio for good. It is therefore devastating and heartbreaking to his immediate family, KBC family, the media fraternity and all Kenyans to receive the shocking news of his departure. Though he has left us, his deep commanding voice and immaculate mastery of Swahili will live on our airwaves for this and coming generations. RIP Mambo Mbotela.
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RT @Mizani254: Africa Elder @vudzijenaj is in the house What a great warm-up for the upcoming EAC, SADC Extraordinary summit scheduled for…
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"The pleas of the sheep will not make the lion change his diet." .@vudzijenaj .@MapongaJQuotes
#TheCongoCrisis
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