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Fashion Lessons women of the swahili coastal tribes

Posted by Wambui Wamutogoria on Thursday, July 1, 2010, In : HISTORY

Learn from the creators of tribal trend, tribal chic....

Go sleeveless and chunk up on bangles and bracelets

Pure high quality leather is the only way to go

The leso is timeless fabric, it'll never go out of style

When hanging out with your gals don't clash always compliment each others look

credit: swahiliculture

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Lynched Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi

Posted by Wambui Wamutogoria on Thursday, February 18, 2010, In : HISTORY

(Dedan Kimathi is my personal hero'and one of Africa's most important revolutionaries)

Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi was executed on Feb. 18, 1957, by the British occupiers of Kenya. Being captured with a loaded revolver was enough to send this freedom fighter to the gallows. Kimathi was hanged because he was a leader of Kenya’s Land and Freedom Army, demonized by the media as the “Mau Mau.”

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