KENYATTA DAY

Today is Kenyatta day in Kenya, a public holiday to remember the 20th of October 1952, when the state of emergency was declared in Kenya after the British colonialist realised that the Kenya African Union(KAU) a movement by Kenyans who wanted Kenya to be allowed its freedom, was getting strong and "dangerous" for them. The movement was led by Kenyatta at the time after taking over from James Gichuru and it had a following of strong willed and strong minded Kenyans among them, Billdad Kagia, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, Achieng Oneko and Paul Rubia. On this fateful day all of them were detained by the British colonialist together with hundreds more Kenyans who were part of the movement. The six Kenyatta, Kubai, Kagia, Oneko, Ngei and Rubia were convicted and taken to Kapenguria Jail where they spent seven years tilling the land and diggin their graves.....all in an effort to make our Country a sovereign land.....but 46yrs down the line was it worth it....have we shown that we deserve the freedom????

You are probably confused now since this is supposed to be a blog about music....but the reason i mentioned the above story is because i believe that you forget your past and you will be a slave to the future.

Today i take time to highlight an artist called Nazizi who apart from being a pioneer in the Kenyan music industry and one of my favourite artist from my homeland, she is doing great music despite the many hurdles that Kenyan musicians face and this can be seen in her release where she sung a song called Jeshi......

In this song she calls out on her other artists whom she first started out with in the industry and she tells them not to give up despite the hurdles that they may face and that they should keep on with the struggle.....just like our freedom fighters, fought long and hard and faced many challenges.....they too should soldier on and eventually they will win the fight or at least fought a good battle.....

I hope they listened...

In the beginning of the song she has sampled part of the speech of who latter became Kenya s first president on Independence: HIS EXCELLENCY JOMO KENYATTA!

Kaboom!