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   UNFORGETTABLE  CHARLES HAYES! ( The last time I wrote about Charles Hayes I mentioned that someone had nicked “I’m Only The Editor” by his late wife Margaret Ann Hayes. Luckily I have managed to get a copy, and an autographed one too, so that I can pay much tribute to two men who were my teachers as I developed as a journalist.) THE FIRST TIME I met Charles and Jean Hayes was a little while after they launched Andrew Crawford Productions in Jeevanjee Street   Nairobi. I was a teenager then and working for the Kenya Probation and Remand Homes Service, briefly as a juvenile probation and later as a statistical clerk in charge of producing the annual reports. Through this service, I got to know quite a few very important lawyers and lots of criminals, but I also got to know quite a lot of decent indigenous Kenyans, especially musicians. It was the musicians, especially the late Fadhili Williams (who is credited with recording the first version of Malaika in Kenya...

  Omongina, a remarkable Goan lady" This is the original version Mervyn Maciel typed for Captain Richard Gethin Even though her name was Mascarenhas, the Abagusii named her "Omongina" when she arrived in Kenya in 1912    and settled in the village of Riana where her husband Thomas Joseph also from Goa India, operated a duka he had established in 1902. Unfortunately, Omongina’s joy of settling down with her new husband was short-lived, for he died 10 years later (1922) at Riana after contracting Blackwater fever, a complication of Malaria that killed many people around Lake Victoria. They had just gotten a baby. Widowed at the age of 29 in a remote part of Africa, with one year old baby, life wasn’t rosy for Omongina the young Goan girl.    Capt Richard Gethin (Snr), who met her at Riana wrote: " I was passing, a Goan woman came out of one of the shops and was very interested to know where I was going. She struck me as being very poor, as she was barefooted...

  http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/ Charles Hayes saw a future independent Kenya before virtually any white person. He started a Swahili Newspaper called Taifa (Nation) and sold it to the Aga Khan who tweaked the title to Taifa Leo, Daily Nation.   Radio Times of Kenya (KBS) Interview, Charles Hayes (Kenya) ·         14 October 1959   ·        From the Ismaili teachings, what is there that could be of value to the peoples of East Africa – living in harmony perhaps? I think perhaps the greatest asset, which the community has proved so often here in East Africa, and in other parts of the world, is self-help. The people who are well-off help the people who are poor. The community schemes are very widely supported and appeals that are made to support one scheme or another have tremendous response in the community. I would be very happy if similar forms of response were created throughout these territories f...