Joseph Odak Ponde

Well the Christian may recognize the term from the Bible when the Jews were captured and forced to undergo hardships in Babylon . The Rastafarians in their consistent historical consciousness recognized the similarities between this biblical saga and the reality which was the Transatlantic Slave Trade or Triangular Trade. The reason why the tern “Babylon” is used as opposed to another is due to the fact that for the most part the Bible was the only reference point available to most enslaved Africans and since they were stripped of cultural identity and their children were forbidden from learning to read, biblical terminology proved to be the best way of communication between rastas and bald heads. Its not only Babylon which is used, but also “Israelite” is used to refer to Africans as their sufferation under the  “Babylonian” system is brutal, long and ongoing. Another popular term is “exodus” which depicts the “movement of Jah people across the red...

Celebrating my HERO, the Charismatic Pan-africanist, Freedom Fighter and the Greatest President Kenya Never had, Thomas Joseph Stanley Mboya. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Few people have heard of Bulgaria’s Vasil Levski Higher Military Academy. Now, that is where Tom Mboya’s killer, Nahashon Isaac Njenga, received his training as a sapper. Military Sappers are hardened frontline soldiers who dig trenches, spy, demolish bridges and clear the way. Interestingly, Mboya was instrumental in the training of his former youth-winger-turned-killer. Why then did a man that Mboya trusted turn into his killer? That is the question that has never been answered some 49 years after the former minister for Economic Planning was killed. For four years, Njenga was a student in this high-profile academy named after a Bulgarian revolutionary who led an armed uprising of all Bulgarians during the Ottoman Empire. His diploma certificates indicated that he was trained in internal...

NAHASHON NJENGA ~ THE STORY OF BULGARIA-TRAINED MBOYA ASSASSIN   ______________________________    (Part II of my previous post). Upon return, Njenga immersed himself into Nairobi’s fast life. He rented a house in Ofafa Jericho in Plot No U3, House number 4486. He also had another house in Banana Hill, on Limuru Road. In Nairobi’s Victoria Street (ironically, now Tom Mboya Street), Njenga had a private office in Lombard House’s Room 27 and a secretary, Esther Ngugi. From here, he ran his businesses that included second hand car sales, Kemco Motors, located on University Way. His car, a Simca registration number KGR 250, was always parked there or at the Princess Hotel where he used to drink even during the day. On the day that he shot Mboya, as the minister stepped out of Government Road’s (Moi Avenue today) Chhani’s Pharmacy, Njenga had spent part of the day at a bar in Ngara. It was here that he met a Kamiti prison’s cleaner, Mary Njeri Munyuiri and he remarke...