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Tuesday Reminder.
Tuesday Reminder.
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Meantime, in sketchy news.
Apparently a person or persons unknown have decided that this oil portrait that's previously been on display at the National Museum in Nairobi, should no longer be part of the national collection but instead go either into storage or become part of someone's private collection.
Subject; Maasai elder standing outside his manyatta.
Whoever took this painting please allow the Kenya national museum access to it. It's meant to be part of the national gallery collection.
Power Games.
Just to reiterate. It's never been about giving the less powerful party a fair hearing.
#Facebook page; Women In Poverty
Mulika wezi.
It's amazing all the "economic projects" into which millions if not billions of Kenya shillings are siphoned, sunk, and lost each year.
Pending Bills is a corruption milking machine where the government colludes with contractors, delays payment then pays them high interest for late payment. That's how your money is stolen. In Thwake Dam Makueni County contractor was paid 236 Million interest for late payment.
A rising tide floats all boats.
Men's 5000m final, Atlanta Olympics. Centennial Park, August 3 1996.
He broke 13 minutes for the 5000m at a time when only African born runners were doing it.
He also improved on his 12th place showing at the Barcelona Olympics, by finishing 6th at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in a highly competitive final that was won by Burundi's Vénuste Niyongabo.
And to think that this guy is only 54. August 18th is his birthday of course.
Suffice it to say that regarding America's mid to long-distance running aspirations, Bob Kennedy and the likes of 800m runner Johnny Gray are without doubt the modern day forerunners of Matthew Centrowitz, Grant Fisher, Clayton Murphy, et al.
Kennedy is also hailed as a pioneering class of intrepid foreigners who availed themselves the benefits of training alongside African runners, something that he accomplished by relocating to England under Kim McDonald’s group of elite athletes who included legends such as steeplechaser Moses Kiptanui from whom Kennedy gained insights into a more relaxed philosophy of distance running.
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#athletics history
