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JOSEPH KABILA NAMED AS THE NEW M23 NEW BOSS · BLACK HOT FIRE NETWORK SHOW'S

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  Speaker 7: Yes, good afternoon and happy Friday. Karibuni-san, I hope you
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  Speaker 7: guys are doing amazing today. It's 3 minutes, or 3 p.m.,
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  Speaker 7: is Jobi to those who are here for the first time.
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  Speaker 7: Apologies for being late again. Yeah, but I was on time.
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  Speaker 7: Just again, hiccups here and there caused by some people.
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  Speaker 7: But we're here better late than never. But yes, today,
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  Speaker 7: of course, being on a Friday, we're going to be covering,
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  Speaker 7: of course, the conversations. Some that have been happening, of course,
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  Speaker 7: during the week. Majorly, we're going to be focusing on Kenya.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to be looking at actually what is happening.
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  Speaker 7: Our main conversation shall be actually on M23, but we're
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  Speaker 7: going to focus also on Kenya as we look at
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  Speaker 7: the mass deforestation that is happening and, of course, videos
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  Speaker 7: that are going viral currently about how this government is
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  Speaker 7: actually killing our forest. It's crazy, and as we talk
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  Speaker 7: about this, we have environmentalists. I don't know how they
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  Speaker 7: call themselves. These people have been trying to score.
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  Speaker 7: A global record, hugging trees in the name of saving trees.
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  Speaker 7: And yet we're seeing so many trees actually being chopped
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  Speaker 7: down right now. So we're going to be talking about that.
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  Speaker 7: And Kenyans are actually devastated by this. And also the
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  Speaker 7: local residents of this particular area are also devastated by this.
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  Speaker 7: And when you talk about mass deforestation in the 254,
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  Speaker 7: it's actually something that has... It's not something new, actually.
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  Speaker 7: It's something that has been happening. But I'd say personally,
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  Speaker 7: with the experience of maybe leadership... And being aware of
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  Speaker 7: what is happening politically, this is actually super crazy. And
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  Speaker 7: I think the craziest mass deforestation I've actually ever set
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  Speaker 7: my eyes on. And of course, I'll be sharing some
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  Speaker 7: videos on what is happening. Much of our conversation is
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  Speaker 7: also coming from Burkina Faso. As we talk about where
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  Speaker 7: Burkina Faso suspended beauty, pagans, and launches a new, that
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  Speaker 7: is a science competition for women. So we're going to
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  Speaker 7: be looking at this, which is actually something super positive.
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  Speaker 7: Coming from the country, as you can see, on the
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  Speaker 7: other side of the border, there are also, of course,
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  Speaker 7: we have the al-Qaida and other terrorist groups trying to,
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  Speaker 7: of course, invade the country, killing civilians. Much more coming
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  Speaker 7: from Ethiopia, opening its first national gold refinery to process
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  Speaker 7: the gold locally. And the question is, why is this
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  Speaker 7: happening right now? And we know the country, actually, a
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  Speaker 7: lot is happening as we talk, which I've seen the U.S. Secretary...
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  Speaker 7: Did say something about it. I'll read a few about that.
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  Speaker 7: Much more still from Kenya. We have fuel prices which
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  Speaker 7: have gone up again, which is going to lead actually
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  Speaker 7: Matatu operators in Kenya to actually hike bus fares because
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  Speaker 7: of the current fuel prices. And much more still coming
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  Speaker 7: from R254. I'll start with an amazing video here actually
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  Speaker 7: describing rather breaking down where the name Kenya came from.
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  Speaker 7: There's one, of course, some other videos from TikTok. People
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  Speaker 7: have been breaking down all those conversations. It came from
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  Speaker 7: the Kamba, especially the Kamba people. But I have my
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  Speaker 7: AI video also, which is explaining also a bit much
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  Speaker 7: more of that particular name. And, of course, we're going
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  Speaker 7: to be looking at a certain map here. I'm not
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  Speaker 7: really sure because I'm seeing the comments. People are super
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  Speaker 7: mad about the map itself. It's not giving a true
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  Speaker 7: illustration about our... how our continent used to look like.
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  Speaker 7: So also looking at it personally, I can tell some
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  Speaker 7: few things are not adding up because when you look
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  Speaker 7: at where Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, which is, I'd say, East
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  Speaker 7: Africa as a whole and how the map is describing,
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  Speaker 7: it's not literally adding up and so much more. But
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  Speaker 7: I'll get to actually see or rather conclude a few
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  Speaker 7: as we get into the Kenyan history. But before that, kindly, again,
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  Speaker 7: Yes, and as we get started, before I get to
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  Speaker 7: share actually where the name Kenya came from, again, history goes.
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  Speaker 7: We don't also have in our books. We've just grown
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  Speaker 7: up having these names that exist about our countries, but
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  Speaker 7: we don't know the actually ancient names or other original
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  Speaker 7: names that existed before the white people came and completely
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  Speaker 7: changed our history to their history, right? Of course, most
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  Speaker 7: of us know about the Kemet, which is the Egypt,
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  Speaker 7: how it was called back then. I think that is
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  Speaker 7: the most common name when you talk about some of
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  Speaker 7: the ancient names when it comes to the African countries.
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  Speaker 7: We know Egypt, and many people right now talk about it.
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  Speaker 7: You'll find videos everywhere, people talking about the Camel. So,
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  Speaker 7: of course, that is the Egypt. We have, and again,
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  Speaker 7: like I said, I'm seeing, also by me just looking,
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  Speaker 7: not just even by the comments, by just me looking
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  Speaker 7: at I can see the Mali Kingdom and also some
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  Speaker 7: things mentioned. But the map explains we have, of course,
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  Speaker 7: the Kemet, that is Egypt. We had the Songhai Empire.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, we've talked about the Songhai Empire in a
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  Speaker 7: couple of videos and historical shows. We had the Mandika. So,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not really sure, again, which I wish the map
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  Speaker 7: was showing the ancient names and today's names. It would
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  Speaker 7: be actually super easy to actually identify how most of
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  Speaker 7: these places were actually called. We have the Hausa State.
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  Speaker 7: I do believe this should be somewhere in West Africa.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not really, really sure, but somewhere there, the Hausa State.
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  Speaker 7: And then we also had the Wall of Kingdoms, and
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  Speaker 7: we had the Ashanti Kingdom as well. We had the
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  Speaker 7: Futa Kingdom. Futa, Futa what? Let me read that correctly.
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  Speaker 7: Futa Jalon. We had the Futa Jalon. We had the
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  Speaker 7: Kingdom of Kush. We had the Nubia. We had the
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  Speaker 7: Kingdom of, the Congo Kingdom, which I've seen many people
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  Speaker 7: on the comment of this map. They're saying, of course,
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  Speaker 7: it's not as the way it is described because this
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  Speaker 7: is today's Congo, DRC Congo today. If you look at it,
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  Speaker 7: this is actually according to the map. So it should
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  Speaker 7: be bigger than how it is illustrated. But again, remember
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  Speaker 7: I've My understanding also, and looking at history of our
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  Speaker 7: country's division, the Central Congo, the Republic of Congo, and
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  Speaker 7: the Congo Brazzaville, literally as a whole, they were really,
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  Speaker 7: really big kingdoms. We had the Swahili state. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: not really sure when they're talking about the Swahili city state,
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  Speaker 7: if this is generally the East Africa region, because the
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  Speaker 7: East Africa community, we all can speak Swahili, you know.
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  Speaker 7: As much as Ugandan Swahili is kind of pathetic, you know,
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  Speaker 7: not really that good. But they do speak Swahili. Of course,
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  Speaker 7: some Rwandese speak Swahili too. So I'm not really sure
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  Speaker 7: when they talk about the Swahili city-states. This is generally
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  Speaker 7: the East Africa community. We had the Luba Empire. I'm
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  Speaker 7: not really sure where that again is. We had the
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  Speaker 7: Mwene Mutapa. Mwene Mutapa. I don't really also know that
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  Speaker 7: way it's all about. And again, I'm not really sure
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  Speaker 7: how factual this is. But of course, some names here.
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  Speaker 7: You guys can familiarize with them because we've talked about them.
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  Speaker 7: We had, again, we have the San and Kansai people.
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  Speaker 7: This and the Zulu Kingdom. I believe this is now Zambia, Zimbabwe,
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  Speaker 7: South Africa. Literally, all of the South. And, yes, we
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  Speaker 7: also had the Aljuran Sultanate. That should be, I believe,
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  Speaker 7: either Eritrea... Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia. I'm not sure again. We're
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  Speaker 7: all learning together. So, hey, don't crucify me. But I
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  Speaker 7: have this video explaining again where the name Kenya came from.
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  Speaker 7: It's an AI video, but I can also pull some
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  Speaker 7: from also some TikTokers in the 254 who have been
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  Speaker 7: breaking down these kind of conversations. And hello to you too.
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  Speaker 7: Jiba jaba. Karibu sana. Happy Friday and wishing you a
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  Speaker 7: beautiful day.
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  Speaker 2: If you open a map of the world today, you
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  Speaker 2: will easily find a country called Kenya in East Africa.
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  Speaker 2: It is famous for its breathtaking wildlife, its magnificent landscapes,
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  Speaker 2: and its rich cultural heritage. But if you took a
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  Speaker 2: time machine, traveled back to the year 1800, and ask
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  Speaker 2: anyone on the ground to show you Kenya, they would
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  Speaker 2: look at you with total confusion. They would have no
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  Speaker 2: idea what you were talking about. So, what was this massive,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful land called before foreign empires stepped foot on its soil?
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  Speaker 2: Was it just an empty territory without an identity? Or
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  Speaker 2: is there a much deeper, hidden story that mainstream history
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  Speaker 2: the name truths and forgotten power of African history. The
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  Speaker 2: truth behind the name Kenya is a mind-blowing historical plot twist.
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  Speaker 2: Before modern borders were drawn with a pen and a ruler,
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  Speaker 2: this land was not one nameless territory. It was a
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  Speaker 2: thriving region of centralized indigenous kingdoms ancient coastal empires, and
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  Speaker 2: sacred homelands with names that carry deep spiritual power. And
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  Speaker 2: here is the biggest surprise of all. The word Kenya
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  Speaker 2: was never an original European name. It is actually a
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  Speaker 2: complete foreign mispronunciation of a sacred African word, a phrase
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  Speaker 2: used by indigenous elders to describe the holy residence of
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  Speaker 2: God himself.
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  Speaker 7: And exactly. I believe when you look at most of the,
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  Speaker 7: actually majority of the history when it comes to naming
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  Speaker 7: of all this country, is because these people could not
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  Speaker 7: actually pronounce the names, the original names we have. You know,
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  Speaker 7: they couldn't. So they made up their own names, you know,
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  Speaker 7: ended up making their own names, right? In some, in some,
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  Speaker 7: I believe in some, Countries or whatever it is, that
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  Speaker 7: is the fact. You know, they couldn't pronounce their original
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  Speaker 7: names and then they ended up making up their own names.
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  Speaker 7: So even for Kenya, because it explains very well, it
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  Speaker 7: wasn't supposed to be K-E, it is K-I, Kenya, not Kenya, Kenya.
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  Speaker 2: Today, we are peeling back the layers of time. We
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  Speaker 2: are going to uncover what this land was actually called
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  Speaker 2: before colonialism, explore the grand kingdoms that ruled it, and
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  Speaker 2: discover how a sacred African word was changed forever. To
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  Speaker 2: understand where the name Kenya truly came from, you have
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  Speaker 2: to look high up into the clouds of the central highlands.
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  Speaker 2: There stands a massive snow-capped mountain that dominates the entire landscape.
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  Speaker 2: Long before any foreign travelers stepped foot near it, the
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  Speaker 2: indigenous people living around its base looked up at its
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  Speaker 2: icy peaks with deep reverence and spiritual awe. To the
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  Speaker 2: Kikuyu people, this mountain was the holiest place on earth.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and still is, actually. And still is, because when
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  Speaker 7: you talk about the Mount Kenya region, it carries a
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  Speaker 7: very heavy name. And I think I was even listening
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  Speaker 7: to some videos and understanding what is happening politically today
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  Speaker 7: in Kenya and has been happening politically in Kenya and
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  Speaker 7: why the Kikuyu carry a certain... again name when it
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  Speaker 7: comes to politics i don't know this is just how
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  Speaker 7: it was explained i don't know how to explain to
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  Speaker 7: you guys but i understood it yeah still it is
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  Speaker 7: still it is still still carries a very heavy name
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  Speaker 7: or spirituality.
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  Speaker 2: They called it kirinyaga in their language kirinyaga translates to
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  Speaker 2: the mountain of whiteness or the mountain of the ostrich
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  Speaker 2: if you stand far bright white glaciers against the dark
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  Speaker 2: volcanic rock look almost exactly like the black and white
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  Speaker 2: feathers of a male ostrich. The Kikuyu believed that Mwenenaga,
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  Speaker 2: the supreme creator and god of the universe, lived on
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  Speaker 2: those frozen heights. Whenever elders prayed, brought offerings, or held
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  Speaker 2: sacred ceremonies, they faced directly toward the shining peak of Kirinyaga.
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  Speaker 2: Right next door, their neighbors, the Akamba people, also looked
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  Speaker 2: up at the exact same grand mountain. In the Akamba language.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's really, really big, like really big.
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  Speaker 2: They referred to the mountain as Kinyar or Kinyar, which
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  Speaker 2: held a very similar spiritual meaning. In the 1800s, a
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  Speaker 2: famous Akamba leader and master trader named Chief Kivoy Wamwe
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  Speaker 2: ruled the vast trade networks of the interior. Chief Kivoy
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  Speaker 2: was a respected, powerful man who organized giant caravans carrying
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  Speaker 2: goods across hundreds of miles. When foreign visitors arrived in
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  Speaker 2: his territory, they looked past the green hills and saw
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  Speaker 2: a blinding white mountain standing high in the distance. Confused
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  Speaker 2: by how snow could exist so close to the equator,
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  Speaker 2: they pointed to the horizon and asked Chief Kivoy what
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  Speaker 2: the mountain was called. Chief Kivoy looked at them and
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  Speaker 2: simply gave them the local Akamba name, Kimya. The foreigners
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  Speaker 2: tried to repeat the word, but their tongues could not
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  Speaker 2: capture the rhythm or the true sound of the African language.
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  Speaker 2: They stumbled over the syllables.
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  Speaker 7: So we're not even supposed to be pronouncing it how
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  Speaker 7: we pronounce it. It is so European because my mom
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  Speaker 7: is Kamba, right? So I understand the Kamba pronunciation. We're
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  Speaker 7: supposed to call Kenya, Kenya. Kenya, not Kenya. We're supposed
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  Speaker 7: to call it in a certain... With a certain accent. Kenya. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Writing down Kenya, they scribbled down the words Kenya and
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  Speaker 2: Kenya in their notebooks. That broken, mispronounced word was eventually
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  Speaker 2: carried back to foreign mapmakers across the ocean. Without understanding
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  Speaker 2: the sacred history or the culture of the people living there,
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  Speaker 2: mapmakers slapped that mispronounced name onto an entire region. A
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  Speaker 2: sacred African word... used to describe the residence of God
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  Speaker 2: had been reduced to a simple, distorted label on a map.
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  Speaker 2: But long before that mispronounced mountain gave its name to
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  Speaker 2: the modern country, there were ancient, powerful city-states sitting along
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  Speaker 2: the ocean that already had their own legendary identities. and
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  Speaker 2: the most famous of them all was a place known
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  Speaker 2: as the Island of War. If you traveled hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: miles southeast from the icy peaks of Kirinyaga, leaving the
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  Speaker 2: green highlands behind, you would arrive at the warm turquoise
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  Speaker 2: waters of the Indian Ocean. Here, sitting on a strategic
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  Speaker 2: island surrounded by deep natural harbors, stood one of the
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  Speaker 2: wealthiest and most famous urban centers in African history. Today,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: this ancient city is called Mombasa. But long before modern
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: maps existed, the indigenous Swahili people knew this coastal powerhouse
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: by its true, fierce name, Mavita. In the Swahili language,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Mavita literally translates to the island of war or the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: place of strife. It earned this dramatic name because of
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: its incredible location. Mavita was a natural fortress surrounded by
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: ocean channels. Because it controlled the trade routes of East Africa,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: rival regional sultans, local African rulers, and competing merchant clans
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  Speaker 2: fought fiercely over its harbors for centuries. To hold Mavita
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  Speaker 2: was to hold the key to the riches of the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: According to local oral traditions, the ancient city was founded
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: by a legendary leader named Shehe Mavita. Under his guidance
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and the generations of Swahili rulers who followed, Mavita grew
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: into a glittering metropolis made of carved coral stone, multi-story
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: grand houses, and massive ocean ports. The people of Mavita
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: were master mariners and traders. They built sleek wooden ocean
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: vessels called dhows, using skilled craftsmanship passed down from parent
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to child. Without any foreign interference, these indigenous coastal merchants
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: built a massive trade network that stretched across the Indian Ocean.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: African ivory, gold, iron, sweet spices, and heavy mangrove timber
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  Speaker 2: were exported directly from Mavita's docks to distant lands. In return,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: fine silks, porcelain, and metalwork flowed back into the city.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Mavita was not an isolated town. It was part of
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a grand network of independent Swahili city-states, including Lamu, Pate,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and Malindi. Each city-state had its own ruler, its own army,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: its own currency, and its own proud identity. They were urban, cultured,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: and immensely wealthy. They spoke Swahili, a rich Bantu language
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: enriched by centuries of ocean trade, and practiced sophisticated systems
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: of law, architecture, and maritime diplomacy. When people lived in Mavita,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: they did not identify as Kenyans. They were the Wa Mvita,
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  Speaker 2: the proud people of the island of war. They knew
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: their home was an independent, thriving African civilization that needed
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: no outside ruler to give it a name or a purpose.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: But while the coastal merchants of Mvita drew their power
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: from the ocean waves, far away in the lush green
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: hills of western Kenya, an entirely different kind of empire
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: was rising. a centralized kingdom ruled by a sacred African king.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: If you left the coastal breeze of Mvita and traveled
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: deep into the lush, green plains near the Great Lake
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: in western Kenya, you would discover that governance was not
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: just a coastal tradition. Here, surrounded by fertile farmlands and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: winding rivers, stood a centralized empire with an unbroken line
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: of royal succession that had lasted for centuries. The Wanga Kingdom.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Long before foreign powers drew lines across the continent, the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Wanga Kingdom was the most organized state in the western interior.
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  Speaker 2: It was built and sustained by the Aboluhia Nation, a
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: community with a deep reverence for order, lineage, and sacred leadership.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: At the absolute center of this empire sat a supreme
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  Speaker 2: ruler who held the divine title of the Nabongo. Nabongo
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: was not merely a military leader, or a wealthy chief,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: he was considered a sacred king, a living bridge between
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the people, the ancestors, and the divine spiritual realm. When
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a new Nibongo ascended to the throne, sacred rituals were performed,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and he was presented with the royal regalia, sacred copper bracelets,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: ceremonial spears, and the ancient royal stool. The Wanga kingdom
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: was governed with incredible precision. The Nabongo ruled alongside a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: respected council of elders known as clan leaders. Together, they
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: established clear laws, collected taxes in the form of grain
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and livestock, settled territorial disputes, and managed a powerful defense
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: system to protect their borders. The capital city of the kingdom,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: a bustling regional trade hub known as Elureco, was a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: place of vibrant activity. Merchants from neighboring communities traveled long
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: distances to trade iron tools, pottery, cattle, and agricultural goods
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: under the peace guaranteed by the Nabongo's royal court.
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: People living in.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: The Wanga kingdom did not consider themselves subjects of a distant,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: unnamed territory. They were proud citizens of a sovereign African
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: kingdom with a clear constitution, deep-rooted royal traditions, and a
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: sophisticated legal system. they had created a stable, thriving society,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: entirely on their own terms. Yet, while the Wanga Kingdom
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: demonstrated the power of a centralized royal court, other regions
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: in the vast Rift Valley relied on a completely different
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: system of power, a fierce network of warrior nations who
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: dominated the plains without needing a single crown. If you
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: moved away from the royal palaces of the Wanga Kingdom,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and stepped onto the sweeping grasslands of the Great Rift Valley,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: you would enter a realm governed by an entirely different
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: kind of power. Here, across vast volcanic plains and lush pasturelands,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: ruled the proud Maasai nation alongside their neighbors, the Kalanjin,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the Kikuyu, and the Akamba. Unlike the centralized kingdoms of
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the West, the lords of the Rift Valley did not
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: rely on a single king sitting on a throne. Instead,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: They built one of the most organized and formidable decentralized
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: societies on the continent. Their entire civilization was structured around honor,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: age-grade systems, and a legendary warrior culture. At the core
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: of Maasai society were the Ilmuran, the young, elite warrior class.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: From a young age, Maasai boys were raised with rigorous discipline,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: learning the sacred art of tracking, cattle herding, and defense.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: When they transitioned into manhood through sacred initiation rites, they
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: became the protectors of the entire community. Dressed in vibrant
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: red robes, carrying long steel spears and heavy rawhide shields,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the Ilmuran were celebrated across the continent for their fearlessness
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and military precision. They guarded the vast herds of cattle,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: which were viewed as sacred blessings from Enkai, the supreme god.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and secured thousands of square miles of pastureland without ever
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: needing a standing army.
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: Or a walled fort.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Governance in the Rift Valley was guided by deep spiritual
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: wisdom rather than political force. The people looked to a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: revered spiritual leader known as the Laybon. The Laybon was
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: a prophet, healer, and spiritual counselor. He did not issue
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: political decrees or collect tribute like a monarch. Instead, he
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: offered divine guidance blessed the warriors before major expeditions, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: interpreted visions to keep the community in harmony with the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: natural and spiritual worlds. Far from living in constant chaos,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the various nations of the Rift Valley maintained intricate networks
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: of diplomacy. The Maasai traded regularly with the Kikuyu and Akamba.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: exchanging livestock and animal hides for agricultural crops, iron tools,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: and pottery. During times of drought or hardship, treaties were struck,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: intermarriages were arranged, and safe trade corridors were established across
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the region. The people of the Rift Valley knew exactly
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: who they were. They were free, prosperous, and deeply connected
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: to the soil of their ancestors. However, as the 19th
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: century neared its end, a strange and chilling shadow began
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: to creep across the highlands, a mystery foreseen by a
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: famous African prophet who looked into the future and saw
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: a terrifying transformation coming to the land. Long before foreign
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: gunboats appeared on the horizon, the spiritual guardians of the
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: interior already knew that a massive storm was coming. In
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the late 1800s, Deep in the central highlands, a legendary
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Kikuyu prophet named Mugo Wa Kibiru walked out of the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: forest with a terrifying message from the spirit world. At
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the exact same time, across the hills, a revered Akamba
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: prophetess named Syokimau experienced the exact same chilling vision.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay. I didn't know Syokimau, because we have a
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: place called Syokimau today. I didn't know. Okay.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Mugo Wakibiru gathered the elders under the sacred Mugumo fig
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: tree the holiest place of prayer. His voice trembled as
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: he described what he had seen in his trance. He
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: told the elders that strange people were coming across the ocean.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: He said their skin would look like pale caterpillars, their
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: clothes would look like the bark of trees, and they
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: would speak in strange, broken voices that sounded like birds chirping.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: He warned that these strangers would carry long, hollow sticks.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: When they pointed those sticks at a man, fire and
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: thunder would come out, killing from a distance.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: So this reminds me of the video I think we
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: shared some time last year of the same history how,
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: was it last year or last year, but one, one
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: of the years, which we saw Africans, they could see
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: what was coming before it even happened. So it was everywhere.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: But his most shocking prediction was about a giant monster
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: that would slice through the heart of the continent. Mugo
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: wa Kibiru foretold that a giant, unstoppable iron snake would
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: crawl across the land, starting from the blue waters of
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the ocean all the way to the great lake in
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: the west. He said this iron beast would breathe black smoke,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: drink water like a river, and spit out fire as
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: it swallowed the country. At the time, the elders listened
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: in total disbelief. How could a snake made of metal
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: crawl across mountains and valleys? It sounded like an impossible nightmare.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Decades later, every single word of that prophecy came true.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: The pale strangers arrived, and to connect their new empire,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: they began building the famous Uganda Railway, a massive track
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: of heavy steel rails stretching hundreds of miles from the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: port of Mavita, Mombasa, all the way to Lake Victoria.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: To the indigenous people watching from the hills, the steam
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: locomotive chugging down the tracks, hissing steam, spitting dark smoke,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: and clanking like metal, was the exact iron snake their
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: ancestors had warned them about. The iron snake did not
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: just bring iron and steam. It brought foreign surveyors, military officers,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: and mapmakers armed with pens and paper. They looked at
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the ancient kingdoms of the Wanga, the sacred peaks of Kirinyaga,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the fierce trade hubs of Mavita, and the vast lands
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: of the Ilmurren. With a few strokes of a pen,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they drew a big red box around these diverse nations.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: They erased the ancient indigenous names from official documents and
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: stamped a single, mispronounced word across the entire territory, the
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Kenya Colony. A collection of ancient, independent civilizations was suddenly
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: merged into a single, foreign-controlled state. The story of how
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Kenya got its name is not just a quick lesson
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: in geography. It is a powerful reminder that African history
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: was never a blank canvas waiting to be written by outsiders.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Long before foreign powers drew lines across the continent, this
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: land was home to thriving, organized civilizations. It was a
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: region defined by sacred mountains like Kirinyaga, wealthy maritime empires
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: like Movita, centralized monarchies like the Wanga Kingdom, and invincible
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: warrior nations across the Rift Valley. The word Kenya was
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: never a discovery or a foreign creation. It was simply
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: a broken mispronunciation of Kinyar, a sacred African word that
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: indigenous elders used to describe the holy residence of God.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Reclaiming these original names is more than just looking at
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: old maps. It is about restoring dignity, truth, and respect
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: to a deep, unbroken heritage that existed long before colonial borders. Now,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I want to hear from you. Which of these ancient
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: names and kingdoms surprised.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: You the most?
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so that is how Kenya became Kenya became Kenya, literally.
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: So the mispronunciation of the name, it was supposed to
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: be K-I, not K-E. So that's what we learned today.
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: I see Jibajaba with the questions there. shout to you
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: so you're saying were they speaking Swahili back then I
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: think so of course Swahili is very Asian so I
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: do believe so I do believe so and thought there
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: was gold on the mountain and the trouble started there
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: of course that is always think about how they can
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: exploit resources and I see Keith in the building says
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: but you've been told these people were evil But the
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Europeans imagine that, and you see no poor people or
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: slums as you see all over Africa today. Exactly Africans
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: are spiritual, not evil.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: And I also see, nope. And I also see, what
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: do the chief feathers respect?
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Any idea?
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know anyone who could carry anything with
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: feathers or with that kind of symbol. They were highly respected,
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: you know. They were just highly respected. Keith Tafadali, just
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: go back to the comment section. This is my show,
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: and I'm very strict about that. Sorry about that. But
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: I also see Jibajaba says, that sounds like the Mayan
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: prophecy of the white man appearing. Yeah, if you remember
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: the video that we shared, I think, sometime last year,
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: or last year but one, which are showing the symbols
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: on the wall, when the African people predicted still the
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: same thing. You can see the Akamba, the Akamba people
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: actually predicted. It's actually super, super amazing. But as we
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: continue with today's conversation, we have logging of trees, which
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: is very active going on in Kenya. And this is
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: actually raising eyebrows and concern about our environment today. The
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: biggest question I've seen many people asking is that where
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: are these trees actually going to? I'm going to give
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: you one second, and then you go.
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: One second, I'm gone.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: I didn't say nothing.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: I muted you.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: That's why.
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: I didn't know you did. I didn't know you muted me.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: Yes, exactly. Like right now, I muted you.
• 36:39
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: Wow, I mean, okay.
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: Let me just answer Jibba Jabba's question, I'm done.
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: Swahili is ancient Jibba Jabba.
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: Swahili goes back at least 3,000 or 4,000 years. So yes,
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: they spoke Swahili. They spoke Swahili, but not all over
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: Kenya like they do now. Mostly in the coastal towns
• 37:04
  Speaker 13: of Kenya and down in Tanzania and parts of the Congo.
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: But not where I call it like it is now.
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: It's spread out, but it goes, like.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: It says, it's not an Arabic language.
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: It's only in the air. It ain't Arabic. That's all
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: I'm saying, so I'm gone. Yes, they spoke it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 15: Cool.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 37:24
  Speaker 16: Bye.
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: Jesus Christ.
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: That's all I said. Jesus Christ.
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: But yes, let me share this, the video, as we
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: get to continue. The logging of trees that is actually
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: happening in Kenya.
• 37:34
  Speaker 17: This is not just cutting down of trees. This is
• 37:37
  Speaker 17: actually malicious destruction of our property. What can you just imagine?
• 37:43
  Speaker 17: It's quite unfortunate what is happening. Yes.
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: And I urge our youth, this is for your future.
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: It's the future of our children. Be on the lookout.
• 37:54
  Speaker 14: Our trees, our forests are being finished.
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: And to be added to also join us, activists, environmentalists,
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: join us in this movement to protect our water, to
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: protect our wildlife, and to protect our future.
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: So the last time I shared about the logging of trees,
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: this was happening in some parts of Mombasa. I remember,
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: I think it was in Nyali, and the people around
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: Nyali demonstrated about it, and actually it was the cutting
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: of the ancient trees, the baobab trees, which were going
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: to Germany, and then were importing back. We're exporting the
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: ancient trees, importing back napier grass, which didn't make sense
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: to me. So this is actually super, super crazy. And
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: of course, these are some lawyers, as you can see
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: on this particular video, who are actually exposing piles and
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: hundreds of logs of trees, which have been fled in.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Abedera Forest Hours after obtaining a court order temporarily stopping
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: logging at the rangers. So they're saying that they argue
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: that the cutting of the trees is an attempt by
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: people in government to degrade Mount Kenya ecosystem and make
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: it unfavorable for agriculture. Mind you, we're just talking about
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: Mount Kenya. So you can see the region how actually,
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: as much as that's an AI video showing Literally, this
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: is a place, as you can see, how sacred the
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: mountain people valued it and how spiritually, again, uh it
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: was so you know carried by the people you can
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: see the environment actually of course it's super super green
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: i've never personally been to mount kenya so i'd be
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: lying if i've seen how with my bare own eyes
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: how it looks but of course you can see now
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: what is happening And again, politically, I've said this something
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: and I've seen many people talking about it, explaining it.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: Why also this is the eye most focused place when
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: it comes to politics. So this is actually crazy. This
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: is crazy. Let me zoom my camera.
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: This is the surest way to desertification.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes.
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: The whole forest is now here. Someone has domesticated a forest.
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: Somebody has decided to domesticate the forest in his own compound.
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: By filling all the trees and moving the forest to
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: his own compound.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: We can clearly see why.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: The ring patterns have changed in Nyandaro.
• 40:38
  Speaker 15: Because this Abadea forest is actually moved to this compound.
• 40:45
  Speaker 15: The forest team, they say that they only cut 250 hectares,
• 40:49
  Speaker 15: which translates to about 100,000 trees. In this yard only,
• 40:56
  Speaker 15: there are more than 100,000 trees.
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: And the yards are numerous.
• 41:01
  Speaker 17: By the time you arrive at Magumu, fly over.
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: You will not even be able to watch what is happening.
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: Just imagine, the law says for.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: You to qualify to be awarded a timber, you must
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: be a timber manufacturer.
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: And every day is a mass of men. This one
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: is malicious.
• 41:17
  Speaker 18: And this one is deliberately being done to make our
• 41:20
  Speaker 18: place dry.
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: This is a direct route to desertification. We have a desert.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, a forest. No way.
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: We must stop it. You have seen.
• 41:47
  Speaker 18: Yes, yes.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so this is happening. And so many people, of course,
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: the residents of these particular local places are affected. Because, understand,
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: I believe the method being used on the chopping down
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: of these trees, it's not in order. There's no, any
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: conversation held between the residents of that particular place area
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: and the activities the government is going to carry on
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: this this zero compensation bet of course on the mass
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: destruction of the environment which people should be compensated and
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: if not compensated there should be an agreement on how
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: these trees are going to be restored because you can't
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: just chop down trees without you again i'll speak of
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: strategy don't do things without strategy I'll speak of that literally.
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: Strategy again. Because we know when you're cutting down a
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: tree or if you're the same thing, it's the same
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: as farming. When you're, you know, unplugging whatever roots of
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: whatever you've planted, you have to replace it with something different.
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: Unless you just want your land to sit there empty,
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: looking ugly, which is actually ugly when it's empty. A
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: land looks more beautiful when there's something planted on it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: And that's just a fact. This is actually very, very crazy.
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: And it continues. Let me show another image or video.
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: Of course, the marked trees, because I do believe the
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: people doing the cutting of the trees, they understand. Because
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: the lady is asking, are the marked trees the ones
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: which are going to be cut or not supposed to
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: be cut? Probably not to be cut, but I do
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: believe whatever is going on, the coordination they are using here,
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: but they know the mature trees ready to be sold.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: I remember Shah to him and RIP to him, one
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: of the people who used to do my nails. And
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: I remember he made me understand actually how tree planting
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: business has money, like a lot of money. This man,
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: like he was telling me how much he was supposed
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: to make if he would be alive because he died,
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: he had cancer, I think last year. And I remember
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: the last time we were talking, how he was explaining
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: the idea and the planning he has on this business.
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: And I was like, wow, you know, lucky you do
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: have a land because there are so many people who
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: want to do this, but they don't have a land. Yes,
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: it is a good business, selling off trees. Yes, it's
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: something I've seen many people getting themselves into. But you
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: have to replace the trees. You're doing zero work if
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: you're just cutting the trees and then move on to
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: the next forest, move on to the next forest. By
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: the time you realize you have nothing actually to chop
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: even for yourself. Literally.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Bro, bro, oh my days.
• 44:50
  Speaker 16: But what's the reason?
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this is really really crazy and more frustration also
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: coming from people. Let me share a couple.
• 45:20
  Speaker 19: Of more videos.
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: So this is not just actually happening in Mount Kenya.
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: I also want to clarify that because the last time
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: I shared a video it was not just coming from
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: Mount Kenya. This is happening across the country. This mass deforestation.
• 45:37
  Speaker 19: Residents and local leaders say tens of lorries have been
• 45:41
  Speaker 19: making their way into the forest and cutting away logs, raising.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Fears of environmental degradation and.
• 45:47
  Speaker 19: The possible loss of critical water catchment area. However, forest
• 45:52
  Speaker 19: authorities and sawmillers have defended the harvesting, maintaining that the
• 45:57
  Speaker 19: felling of mature and over-mature plantation trees is lawful and
• 46:01
  Speaker 19: forms part of standard plantation management.
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: So what exactly is happening inside the Abadeas? Gata Tenjeroge
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: takes a peek.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: At Geta Forest Station Nyandarwa, there's a lot of activity.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: We find lorries emerging from the forest. Their cargo beds
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: filled with logs. Drivers struggle to maneuver their way to
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: the main road, navigating dusty, pothole-ridden access roads. The scale
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: of the harvesting has sparked concern among conservationists.
• 46:33
  Speaker 9: Kenyans on social media and residents of.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Nyandarwa, residents fear the continued harvesting of trees could have
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: far-reaching consequences for the Abadea ecosystem, particularly its role as
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: a critical water catchment area.
• 46:47
  Speaker 9: Their concerns are shared by.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Nyandarwa leaders, who are calling for greater involvement of local
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: stakeholders in decisions on forest harvesting.
• 46:55
  Speaker 18: The barn was there. It was lifted to where? It
• 46:59
  Speaker 18: was lifted to when? How many trees should they be cutting?
• 47:03
  Speaker 18: So I've raised this through a statement in parliament.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Responding to the concerns during the Mazingira Day tree planting
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: exercise at Njambini Kiburu Forest Station, one of the areas
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: where harvesting has been taking place, Nyandarwa County Forest Conservator Daniel.
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: Mukum dismissed claims of deforestation.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: He says 50 sawmillers had been authorized to harvest mature
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: and over-mature trees from designated plantations, maintaining that the exercise
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: was part of routine forest management and not destruction of
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: the forest.
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: There are things that are being said in the media,
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: but everything has a work plan.
• 47:42
  Speaker 9: You know when to cut, how to cut, we can't
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: go beyond that.
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: And it's only restricted to the soil that is good.
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: It's only restricted to that soil.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: It's a lie.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: It's a lie. Of course, they always use excuses.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Approximately 152,000 hectares of industrial plantation forests managed for commercial
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: timber production. So millers operating in Nyandarwa County are authorized
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: to harvest trees from 250 hectares annually. An exercise regulated
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: to ensure sustainable forest management.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Last year, we collected.
• 48:25
  Speaker 10: In a statement shared on their social media pages, Rift Valley,
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: Central and Eastern Association of Sawmillers, defended the ongoing harvesting,
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: describing it as a necessary part of commercial plantation management.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: The association says the exercise.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: gives the government revenue from mature trees, prepares the land
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: for the next planting rotation, and maintains a steady supply
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: of timber to the local market.
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: They say the timing is intended.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: To ensure logs can be transported before El Nino rains
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: disrupt access to forests.
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Hey guys, today we're in Karura.
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I'd share this one of Karura Forest. Like
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: I said, it's happening all across the country in many places.
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: Many people are Heavily being affected. Many counties.
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: This one is an old Gen X fool who does
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: not understand what is happening.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: The government is.
• 49:19
  Speaker 12: Actively participating in deforesting that forest. There are videos and
• 49:45
  Speaker 12: videos of logging happening in Abadiya's forest.
• 49:48
  Speaker 14: And then, I.
• 49:48
  Speaker 12: Remember that the Water Bill 2023, it will privatize.
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: Streams and rivers from the source. So now, and then,
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: even if you drill a.
• 50:02
  Speaker 12: Hole, however expensive it is to drill, you must.
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: Have a digital meter.
• 50:08
  Speaker 12: And you must pay tax of 85,000 shillings before water
• 50:15
  Speaker 12: could drain. So me, I'm just worried about the future
• 50:21
  Speaker 12: of water in Kenya.
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: Exactly. We should be very, very worried. This is something
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: Wangari Madai started fighting when she was still alive. I
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: shared the story of Wangari Madai when she was trying
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: to save trees. And they were brutally harassing this woman
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: for just doing what is actually right. But as we
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: get closer to winding up, we have, of course, also
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: Bukina Faso, which has suspended the beauty pagans, if I'm
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: pronouncing the name correctly. The same Bukina Faso has suspended
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: the beauty pagans nationwide and launched a national science competition
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: to recognize female scientific talent. The two developments have drawn
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: attention to the country's approach to cultural values and promotion
• 51:08
  Speaker 7: of women in science. In June 2026, authorities suspended beauty
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: pagans while new regulations were being developed, citing the protection
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: of Bukina Faso cultural identity, social values, and human dignity.
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: In August, the presidency launched Hakili, more so a competition
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: designed to identify and reward talented young women in science.
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: The competition brought together 84 young women to compete in mathematics, physics,
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: and chemistry, with top performance receiving prizes and scholarships. President
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: Ibrahim Traore later met with the winners, encouraging them to
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: believe in their abilities. I believe that was part of
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: the speech. if I remember last time, because remember the
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: speech was actually early this year, I think July, August
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: there when we shared the speech. And yeah, and then
• 52:09
  Speaker 7: encouraging them to believe in their abilities, pursue scientific careers
• 52:13
  Speaker 7: and set ambition. The bigger question is whether initiatives like
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: Hakili Mosu will inspire more girls to pursue science and
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: open doors to education and future careers. Well, I'll say
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: this determines with the mindset of the women of the country.
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: Because if you don't understand what is being introduced to you,
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: you can't venture into it. You won't even have any desire.
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: Until you understand clearly what you are building or what
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: you're being offered and what you're offering to the country,
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: also being in this particular environment or skilled environment, then
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: you can't actually, nobody can push you to actually pursue
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: what you don't want to do. Literally. That is just
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: a fact. So I love the fact that he's actually
• 52:59
  Speaker 7: doing this. But I do also hope he can also
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: allow still things to do with beauty. Because if I'm
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: understanding it correctly, to still continue. People have different things
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: they want to pursue. Personally, I love everything to do
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: with beauty. At the same time, I love being on
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: the mic. So it depends if you're passionate about it.
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: But I do hope The women in the country are
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: going to put themselves into this. On the other end,
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: we can see, of course, attacks coming from the al-Qaeda
• 53:34
  Speaker 7: and other, of course, terrorists. Let's look at this.
• 53:42
  Speaker 16: Jihadists from rival al-Qaeda and Islamic State factions in the
• 53:45
  Speaker 16: Sahel have clashed on an unprecedented scale in recent weeks
• 53:49
  Speaker 16: with claims of hundreds of fighters killed. The two extremist
• 53:53
  Speaker 16: coalitions covered influence over the same areas, routes and local
• 53:57
  Speaker 16: populations in the borderlands spanning Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
• 54:01
  Speaker 16: Analysts say ideological and strategic tensions also fueled the rivalry.
• 54:06
  Speaker 16: On Monday, the Islamic State in the Sahara province said
• 54:09
  Speaker 16: it had killed more than 400 fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked NIMB.
• 54:13
  Speaker 16: including several leaders, in clashes four days earlier in Burkina Faso.
• 54:18
  Speaker 16: The toll has yet to be independently confirmed. If verified,
• 54:21
  Speaker 16: analysts say it would be the deadliest single battle recorded
• 54:25
  Speaker 16: between the two groups. It was surpassed to more than
• 54:27
  Speaker 16: 200 deaths already claimed by the Islamic State group in
• 54:31
  Speaker 16: the same area in early September. Between 2019 and last month,
• 54:35
  Speaker 16: the two jihadist groups fought more than 320 battles, resulting
• 54:38
  Speaker 16: in about 2,200 deaths. The rivalry also drives their constant
• 54:44
  Speaker 16: expansion in the Sahel, which the ruling juntas in Ouagadougou,
• 54:48
  Speaker 16: Bamako and Nyame, have found difficult to contain.
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so that is what is happening in the Sahel.
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: And of course we know who is foiling all this
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: because they see the positive things that are happening in
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: the country and trying to do everything possible. To stop it.
• 55:07
  Speaker 7: I saw today the BBC asking about Thomas Sankara's dream
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: and questioning if Bukina Faso people are living it today,
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: of course, through Ibrahim. Because they are trying to compare
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: the two. And I do believe, of course, they understand
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: the two. Their agenda is the same as Thomas Sankara. So, yes,
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: he is doing it to answer BBC. Of course, I couldn't...
• 55:34
  Speaker 7: Leave my comment there, but it's BBC. But yes, Bukinabe
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: people are living the Thomas Sankara dream through Ibrahim Traore.
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: And of course, on our last conversation of today, we have,
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: that is the new M23 boss, that is the ex-president
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: Joseph Kabila. And what is actually crazy, this was, I think,
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: early this year, when we had a release statement of
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: the former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila was
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: sentenced to death in absentia by military court in Kinshasa
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: on charges of treason, war crimes, and collaboration with the
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: M23 AFC rebel group. A few months back, back, back,
• 56:21
  Speaker 7: I think early, late last year too, he was in Kenya,
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: and many people questioned his visit to Kenya, and of course,
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: meeting President William Ruto. And of course, at the same
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: time when Joseph Kabila was here, that is when we
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: had the RSF leader also visiting the country. That is
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: the same time we had the billionaire whose head is
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: missing and the wife, which I believe this whole death
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: is a planned thing. They're trying to fool us because
• 56:48
  Speaker 7: I don't understand how the death of two people, I mean,
• 56:51
  Speaker 7: the heads of two people are missing when a helicopter crashes.
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: At least find one head. Where is the other one?
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: Even if it's a bit burnt, you know? tell us
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: at least you found the head what do you mean
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: the heads are missing so that tells you either this
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: death it's a stage death like an epstein type of
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: shit you know vacated because you're too mouthy go stay
• 57:09
  Speaker 7: in another island we're gonna stage your death people are
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: gonna mourn cry forget about your children but we gotta
• 57:14
  Speaker 7: protect ourselves if not i don't know just trying to
• 57:18
  Speaker 7: think about it so loud so it's not making sense
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: and again this how we understand this system is such
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: a a mediocre type of a system, globally, actually. And
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: understanding white people. This is white people's action, I do believe.
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: This is, again, white people. If you understand, when you
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: look at the M23 rebel, especially this year, the report,
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: we had, number one, the leader. The leader of the
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: M23 rebel was killed, shot, killed. And then, after a
• 57:49
  Speaker 7: few months later, we saw some accusation... coming from Rwanda,
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: Kagame being accused of the same thing. Of course, they've
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: been accusing him, of course. But this time it was
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: with some more clarity. It's like they have evidence to
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: back the accusation. There's just a lot that has been
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: happening this year when you talk about the M23. Because
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: this guy was not just killed by mistake. They removed him.
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: And them installing Kabila, And an ex-president who should be
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: right now in jail because when you look at the
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: history of this guy, he's also one among the people
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: who have worked along with Kagame in the continuation of
• 58:37
  Speaker 7: this war of the stealing of gold in Congo, in
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: DRC Congo. So I'm going to share just a bit
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: of a video of this and then we get to continue.
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: I mean, we get to wind up with with today's conversation.
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: I came in late, so today I'll just give you
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: guys one hour and that's all I could offer.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Central Africa.
• 59:01
  Speaker 20: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former president has
• 59:05
  Speaker 20: now stepped forward.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: To lead a new rebel coalition.
• 59:09
  Speaker 20: And the question we must ask is, who benefits from
• 59:12
  Speaker 20: this decision and who is going to be impacted by
• 59:15
  Speaker 20: this decision?
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: My brothers and sisters, this is a.
• 59:18
  Speaker 20: Very serious step, a very, very consequential development for Congo
• 59:23
  Speaker 20: and for Africa.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, let us start with the facts.
• 59:27
  Speaker 20: On Monday, the 12th of October in Goma, Former President
• 59:30
  Speaker 20: Joseph Kabila was named the new leader of a new
• 59:33
  Speaker 20: political military alliance called the Front for the Refoundation of
• 59:37
  Speaker 20: the Nation, the FRN. The announcement was made at his
• 59:41
  Speaker 20: own residence in Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo,
• 59:44
  Speaker 20: which has been under the full control of the M23
• 59:47
  Speaker 20: since February last year. The coalition advisor, Claude Ibalanki, announced
• 59:52
  Speaker 20: the leadership at a press conference.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Video released by the group showed.
• 59:56
  Speaker 20: Kabila himself signing the declaration document, together with other leaders.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: This is very important. The FIRN is.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 20: Not starting from nothing. It brings together former leaders of
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 20: the AFC M23 Alliance. M23 military leader Sultani Makenga was
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 20: appointed as one of Kabila's deputies. In total, Kabila will
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 20: now have four deputies and all of them come from
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 20: the AFC M23 family. including former AFC leader, Cornel Nanga,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 20: and M23 political leader, veteran Bissimwa. In other words, the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 20: Congo River Alliance, the AFC, which was allied to the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 20: M23 rebellion, has now been succeeded by this new structure
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 20: with a former head of state.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: At the top.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so this is actually super crazy. And it tells
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: you how, again, we really have a weak system that's
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: No one is held accountable. No one is to be
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: held accountable. No one has been held accountable as a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 7: matter of fact in many historical facts of doing things
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: that are against humanity. If they believe in humanity so much,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 7: I fail to understand why can they respect the same
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 7: human rights. It's really, really crazy. So that is what
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 7: is happening. Of course, I believe much more news is
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: going to be coming from Now the M23, there's been
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 7: actually silence. There's been a lot of, you know, silence,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 7: zero crickets, you know. But now the crickets are getting louder.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: So we're going to see more of what is going
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: to emerge now that he is the new boss of
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: the M23 Rebel. Is the Congo War going to actually
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 7: get worse, escalate? Could it be the new Kagame they're
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 7: trying to actually replace Kagame with, but indirectly? Because I
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 7: don't understand why use an ex-president. It's something that, you know,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 7: should wiggle your mind a little bit. But as we
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 7: wind up, I see Jibajaba saying that's going to China
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 7: for building construction. pallets and furnitures. Yes, but like I said,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 7: remember Ruto is smiling, showing all his canines and everything
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 7: to every white man, right? So, we don't know if
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 7: the deal is really, really just going to China alone.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 7: Like I said, the baobab trees were going to Germany,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 7: so I'm not really sure about this. It could be,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: you could be right, but again, Ruto is a very
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: good handshaker of collaboration and cooperation. So, Many collaboration and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 7: cooperation with a good bank. Remember the good people of
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 7: the bank?
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 17: Yes.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: So it's working very, very good. And I also see
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 7: kids say this is happening all over Africa because they
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: have been selling them to Chinese to make furniture and
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 7: other wood products.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: Well, China could be, again, yes, the buyer. But again,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: Ruto is a good collaborator, cooperator of many things. So, yes.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 7: And says, does Kenya have a tick? Mahogany, Ebony, those
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: fetch big money. I do believe we do. Let me see.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: Let me see. Yes. Yes. Both. Actually, yeah. All of them.
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  Speaker 7: They're saying though They are represented primarily by distinct indigenous
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  Speaker 7: species rather than the commercial varieties native of Asia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: so that is Google. And I also see Kitty saying
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  Speaker 7: you cannot cut down all the trees and do not
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  Speaker 7: cause doubt and starvation in the country. Exactly. And I
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  Speaker 7: also see you saying I did not know you all
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  Speaker 7: have spruce and pine trees. Yes, we do have pine trees.
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  Speaker 7: We do have pine trees. And saying I wish that Toyota...
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  Speaker 7: Lux Truck was available in the U.S. They are extremely dependable.
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  Speaker 7: Keep wiping out these Europeans and United States-backed terrorist groups. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: but yes, that has been my literally amazing time with
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  Speaker 7: you guys. And thank you for joining us or joining me.
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  Speaker 7: I'm out.