Kuteleza siyo kuanguka (To slip is not to fall) Sikiliza upate kujua… (Listen so that you know…) I remember fondly as kids when we were occasionally asked to go to the front of class and tell stories and would always excitedly start as all stories are started in Swahili… “ Paukwa!!!!!” “Pakawa!” “Sahani?” “ya mchele!” “Giza?” “Ya mwizi!” “Baiskeli?” “ya watu wotee!” “Na Maziwa je?” Ya watoto wa nyayooo” “Hapo zamani za kale……” At that time it didn’t matter some statements were propaganda from Moi’s time…it also really didn’t matter that if you joined the primary school mass choir the songs you were bound to sing would be exalting his reign filled with words like Nyayo Philosofia … Baba wa Taifa …and all the sycophantic lullings that went with sucking up to political leaders… …it did matter though at some point when Kenyans decided to flex some muscle and break away from Kanu… It was a hard time for all just before the multiparty era ...people talked in hushed whispers…disgruntled Kenya...
