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Have you had time to go through the draft constitution? What do you think about it? Do you feel the needs of kenyas are met in the new draft? Are the land laws good enough for the people of Taita? What touches you most on the new draft? What do you agree with and what don't you agree with?

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Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:20 pm

peter Mwalu

The first ever gay marriage between two kenyan men took place in London this month. This has opened up a huge discussion in Kenya and amongst Kenyans living abroad as well. The committe sitting to review the constitution refused to incorporate gay rights on the new constitution. Do you think it's about time the gay society was let to be? What is your opinion on this?

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Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:39 pm

mkwachu

The teacher who has been trying this kid is appealing to everyone who can contribute to help this kid to do so. The kid has spermato-ova. The whole process will be a long, painful and expensive one. Karen hospital who had volunteered to elp the kid are not appealing to donors to help cater for the costs. If you would like to help this kid in any way you can, please contact the below below. I will copy the email Honorina sent me a few months ago. Let us all try to help this kid in all ways we can :


Dear Martha,
Thanks a lot for your concern-wadawida dikakundana huwu naghesha MLUNGU will take us places we have never even dreamt of.
Back to Daniel, nimewafungulia account na K.C.B.Voi kwa jina la mamake coz as u may well know uhu mwana ndeuna I.D kwa wundu ghwa agha matatizo.Mkatumia swift code seji wamu mko kimonu huwu mwadima mmudumie kwa account name:VELENTINAH MKASHAMBA MWACHONGO,account number:1111906416,K.C.B,VOI.
Hata huwo ni nicha wandu wa N.T.V.,daily nation na Qfm wimanye kwamba dakanye chia imweri,through KARIM RAJAN-0722718873,Email-krajan@nation.co.ke na PHILLIP MUYANGA-0721396289,Email-pmuyanga@nation.co.ke.
Already uhu mwana wapatire offer kufuma kwa Karen hospital NRB,wimupoisagha hata huwo contact weke phillip wikuneke the latest updates na other details.Karim na Phillip weka based Mombasa.
CHAWUCHA NANDIGHI MLUNGU UKURASIMIE MMBOSE NA WAGHENYI WAKO KWA KUGHIDUKIA AGHA MALAGHO MZIGO.

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Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:44 pm

e-smile

Given the economic situation being experienced in kenya and the drought, famine just to mention a few..I tend to think that the timing of the census was off the scale. Millions are starving, thousands without jobs and the government spends money to count people? At the end of the day, what is the use of counting people who are dying in hunger? In my opinion, this is a waste of resources. The have provided jobs to a few individuals for 7 days..but what about the larger percentage? If this money was invested in hostpitals, then all deaths and births would be recorded.This would save the government alot of money and time. People in the villages could register with chiefs, people in towns could register with council. This would have been an ongoing excercise for a whole year. Call me biased, but in my opinion, the census is totally useless when millions are dying of hunger!

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Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:17 am

raheli

I take this opportunity to welcome all new members to our Taita Forum. Feel free to talk about anything. Kindly note that this is not a place to advertise your business.Any person posting a commercial advertisement will be banned from the forum. We request members not to abuse or promote any tribal wars. Any member doing so will be banned as well. This is not a place to encourage tribalism. We are here to share information about our land and help each other with ideas as to how we can build and improve Taita and Kenya as a whole.You can post any article about politics, economy and culture of wadawida. Feel free to tell our Members of parliament your thoughts and ideas on how they can serve Wadawida better.
Welcome, and have fun.

Admin.

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Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:21 am

mwanguku

First of all I would like to say that I owe you all for the success of the forum. It could never be what it is were it not for your daily participation.
Now, I am running out of topics to put on the site. I need your help . You can start new threads on any topics you deem good enough. Keep the forum live. Tell me if there are specific threads that you want me to create. This is your forum, so own it.!!!!

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Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:59 pm

mkwachu

General site news

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Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:06 pm

capri59

Please fee free to post here any wedding meetings, fund raising meetings as well as funeral meetings. It is only by talking to us we can get to know of the meeting. Isi ni wadawida. wandu wamweri, so let us talk to one another and be there for each other during the happy and sad moments. Talk to us.

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Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:00 am

JMkaya

Wadawida site and forum is getting more popular amongst people all over the world. We would like to get suggestions on how you think we can improve the site and the forum in general. What topics would you want on the forum? What criteria do you think we missed out on. Any other suggestion or idea that any member has in mind is welcome. Please forward all your suggestions and ideas to INFO@WADAWIDA.COM.

Let us make WADAWIDA.COM the best ever!!

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Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:51 am

mkwachu

I have a few suggestions from members who would like to see Wadawida.com turned into something like Facebook. I am not so much into that idea because this was initially started as an information site and of course the forum creates a platform for discussions. Let me know if you all think that Wadawida.com should go the Facebook way..I am listening..

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Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:15 am

mmghendi

We would like to alter all members that once in a while you will notice the number of posts posted by you go down. This affects every member. We prune forum from time to time. By this I mean we delete old forums. You must have noticed that forums relating to elections and violence are gone. Thats just an example. This will definately lower the number of posts for ALL THE USERS, not just individuals.It's just a way of keeping the forum very updated.

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Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:46 pm

Eve

We welcome suggestions from members.What topics do you want started? What do you want to talk about? Most members are complaining that the forum is boring, give us ideas on the topics you want, or start up topics that you want. We came up with the idea of the forum and the site now it is up to you members to keep it alive. You have to entertain yourselves. If we all sit down and wait for the administrators to come up with topics it will be boring. We are different people with different ideas, so let's put them all on the table.Come on guys wake up..lets make this more interesting

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Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:23 pm

mkwachu

We have a totally new face for Wadawida.com. Some of the pages are not finished, but soon all the pages will be done. We try everyday to gather more information as to how we can improve the site. We welcome your comments about the new look.

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Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:11 pm

Lydia

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Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:12 pm

mimi

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Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:24 pm

e-smile

Yeah, as Mndwaludindi suggested..lets have a zilizopendwa thread.Write anything about the good old days...the good things you had when you were growing up that you can never have..the ball is on your side..Mndwaludindi...roll it..

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Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:15 pm

mwanguku

Please see the story of a young Taita kid who has been living with dual sexual identity.
Anyone with ideas on how to help this young kid..please speak out..:

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/599 ... index.html

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Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:39 pm

mwakabangi

The brutal killing of the white miner is taita has left many questions un answered. Itis unfortunate that the old man had to die that way. I can not talk much about this because I do not know the facts for sure that led to his death apart from what was written in newspapers. Mwatate MP was qouted saying that the miner was very rude to the locals as he had no respect for black people. But that does not warranty the brutal way he was killed. The newspaper quoted the son of the killed miner saying that the whole mess has some political motives in it.The question is, does it? How did he get the land to start with? If he acquired the lease in an honest way, why all the remorse feelings between the miner and the locals? Too many questions that will need to be answered!!

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Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:21 pm

capri59

Who says we do not have some beautiful tourists attractions apart from our great Tsavo which we share with out Kamba brothers?
Though our government has not marketed bird watching as a huge tourist attraction, many countries like south africa have benefited alot from bird watching tourism. The many rare birds species that many pay millions to get a glimpse of are in our great taita land.
Come to think of it when I was growing up there were so many species of birds that we took for granted that can actually lift our dawida if someone decides to market it.
Those species are found in the forests and biologists are worried that they are amongst endangered species.Soon these birds will be gone.
I think it is our duty as wadawida to protect these birds and hopefully we can start marketing dawida as a bird watching attraction.
Birds like mwangalanga are very rare.
Let us protect and benefit from the birds.

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Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:10 pm

capri59

Here are some of Taita names and Meanings. Weshould complile this and put it on the net. It can go a long way in helping Wadawida choose names for their kids.

Fortunate-- (luck) mzwana
mzwana ghuboie - good luck
mzwana ghuzamie - bad luck
mvono (fortune)
wise, wisdom-- Wundu
hardworking-- wudimi, mkazo

justice-- hachi
intelligent-- wongo (brainy)
Insightful--- kuwona kula (see far)
Visionary-- mlodi
resilient-- rumaghia (persevere)
resilience - irumaghio (perseverance)
intuitive-- mlola?? (inquisitive, seeker)
ambitious-- bea (ambition/want/lust)
creative-- muumbi, muundi, fundi
faithful/faith-- irumirio
good natured-- kuboa
Inventive--- fundi, m'chori (artist), m'bori (singer)
Mwadime - born in day time
Mwakio - born at night
Mwachia (also Mcharo, Mwacharo, Msafari, Mghendi - born in a journey (enroute)
Mwaisakenyi - born in the bush
Mdiwi (also Mwasi, Rando) - hunter
Mwalegha - refusing to exit the womb
Mwasighwa - left behind
Mwamburi - the goat herder/owner
Mwang'ombe - the cattle lover
Mwanguku - 'you chicken lover you!'
Mwakoshi - 'dog lover '
Mwawaka - 'women lover'
Mwambisi - killed a hyena may be? can't love that sucker!
Mwashida - problem guy
Makulila - cry baby
Mwangemi - wailer


Please add some more names. Do not forget the meaning of the names.

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Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:27 am

Kach

Admitting that Dawida is a beautiful place is an understatement. Taita rocks. I know of this very beautiful place in Mgange Nyika. When you stand right at the peak of mgange and view Nyika, the scenery for Nyika from Mgange is magnificent. I do not think I have ever seen such a view.
And there is this water fall in place called Ikonde(my grand ma's home). The waterfall was lovely.The river was called Kighononyi.Though I haven't had time to go back again, I still have the memories in my head..I believe there are many unique places in dawida...name them

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Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:33 pm

mkwachu

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Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:17 pm

capri59

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Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:13 am

mwanguku

Please post here any information about NGO's or Projects in Taita. That way members who would like to get involved/ volunteer can get more information on the projects

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Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:18 am

Mwalugha wa Mwamburi

Kidawida chawefwa. Kughora loli hata ini nawelemwa kuandika kidawida. Hebu ditime kutumbanya Kidawida, ngera dipatagha magome ituku jimu diandike dictionary ya kidawida. Kama mndu oko na kidawida ichijha cha kala, redu maghesho aha diandike kidawida.

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Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:19 am

mwanguku

How can I ever forget?How can I put the memories behind? I still have them..I carry them with me.. especially the x-mass season and Easter.
I remember the anticipating mood whenever easter was around the corner..the safari rally season. Haha. Boy that meant the world to some of us. What was the name of that ka-small hill near chamacha?How we knew the rally drivers by names haha, kina Patrick Njiru,...those were among some best childhood memories..
Then came the night mass..ooh and the discos at night hahaha, and the best part was the x-mass night mass. When I had a part in the x-mass play....how I miss such silly good times..oh and the chapati and pilau that came once or twice a year hahaha...God I love Taita..

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Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:42 pm

mkwachu

Does anyone remember the 500Ml white cup? My dad was a huge fan of that brand. I associated that beer with him when I grew up.
Then there was the tree top. It only came once a year during x-mass. First they had the bottle one, then changed to the plastic bottle.
What about the tinned blue band? I still have a cut from one of the tins.
Oh yeah and maziwa ya nyayo.
Thinking back now, I appreciate all the things I had when I was growing up.
Share your childhood memories here

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Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:42 am

mwanguku

We have put down all our culture and traditions. Massie would agree with me that the first time he visited Dawida he fell in love with it..and of course very curious to know more. I must admit that there is so much about Taita culture I do not know.Lets bring it out people

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Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:45 pm

capri59

When you read the origin and culture of wadawida, you will find it interesting that there is a difference between wanganga(warighiti) and wachawi(wasawi). Warighiti are said to have been very important people in the dawida society; where else wasawi are said to be shunned off by society. We do not have enough information about the fact that warighiti used or did not use black magic to heal. Is there any association between warighiti and wasawi? Or is it all black magic?

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Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:43 pm

mkwachu

Just how important is kidawida to you? How are you helping in preserving the language and the culture? Most of the kids or even adults who live in the towns can not communicate in kidawida. What are we doing about it? Are we making any effort to teach our kids the language? If we are making any effort that is. I think the whole concept of culture, language and traditions is slowly eroding in Kenya. Intermarrying is not an issue, as a matter of fact it should be encouraged, but if we are not careful, soon we will be like the western countries- without culture and traditions. We should not let that happen

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Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:43 am

Kach

I was very shocked when a priest in Malindi blamed women for ''making men turn gay''. It is amazing how people who have the power/charge to influence the society with the sunday summons can utter such words. How are women to blame? That women have failed on their role as wives has led men turning to other men for companionship?? How insane! What of the gay women? Who is to blame then?

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Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:25 am

JMkaya

Raila's new ''great idea'' of giving hand outs to kenyas in slums is yet another one of those meant to fail programmes started. I do agree that Kenya has one of the highest number of poor people, but handouts will not solve poverty.

1.What criteria did they use or are they going to use to select the said number of people?

2.How sure are they that the people they picked are the poorest in the community?

3.Mpesa will be used for the hand outs. But if somone can afford to buy a cellphone, does that person fall under the poor to the core criteria?

4.What about the poor who do not own cell phones?

5.What about the very very poor people living in smaller towns?

6.What about the very poor people living in the village?We know majority of the poor live in the villages

7. Who is funding this? Is this yet another hole deeper into the debt hole?

I don't think this will work. Just like CDF money, this will never reach the people who really need it. I totally disgree with this idea.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:54 pm

mmghendi

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/646 ... index.html

Now that the ICC is moving in for this, what do you think is going to heppen?Do you think the people involved will be brought to justice?

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Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:46 pm

mmghendi

Wadaida dachoka na siasa ra magome nane. Miaka rose iri ndedewona mabadiliko ghangi dawida. Barabara redu bado reka rizamie. Maendeleo ghadwa miaka ighana kuwonekana Dawida. Na iri miaka rose daweenja wandu kwa parliament, lakini bado ndedipatire lwaka lupoiye. Dachoka. Huwu ni ngelo rededa. Dakunda wanasiasa widedagha na wumweri na wanasiasa wereda maendeleo Dawida.Wukenyi wanasiasa. Njogholol yadeda!!!
Admin

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Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:21 pm

e-smile

All eyes are now focused on the newly elected MP's of Dawida. I believe the elections especially in Taita were fair and free.You promised enough goodies during your campaigns, we are now waiting for you to deliver.Like the people in Voi have shown all the politicians, we elect you to work, if you do not deliver, we get rid of you. I think it is a good thing for wadawida to finaly realise that they are in control of their politics and that the MP's need to work.
Huwu dawesera diwone kama kazi ibonyekagha dawida angu wada.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:16 pm

e-smile

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Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:51 am

capri59

Finally the coalition cabinet was named yesterday.It is no suprise that PNU has managed to retain the ministries that both parties were fighting for. It is a shock however for the ordinary kenyan, with all that has been happening to Kenya's economy, now we have to dig deeper into our pockets to pay for the extra ministries that have been created. Now we can truly say that baby kissers are really selfish individuals.
So what do you guys think about the new cabinet? 7 women ministers is a slap on the face.

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Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:53 pm

Catherine Mghoi

During election campaigns, all the parties promised to give more chance to women if they won. Now that they have created 40 ministries, naming only seven women ministers is a slap on the face to the kenyan woman. 15 women would have made more sense, or atleast 12. But 7?I believe we have many women who have the capability of running a ministry better than some of the ministers named in the new cabinet.Talk is talk...and talk is really cheap!! Thats why our politicians can afford to say anything they want and get away with it...What do wadawida women feel about this?

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:24 pm

mkwachu

The best way to stop the hunger for power amongst in the kenyan political scene is to pass a law that says Ministers should not be MP's.The parliament be given more power. MP's to be voted by people, while Ministers should be appointed or selected by the parliament. Ministerial positions should be advertised like any other positions in government. The candidates should be vetted by the parliament, then after thorough vetting and scrutiny, the ministers selected in parliament. However, the ministry should be under parliament. The ministers must be answerable to the parliament. That way we the voters have a watchdog who we elect at the grassroot. The parliament should have the powers over ministers and should be able to fire and hire new ministers. The current system we have now makes other MPs who are voted like any other MPs feel more superior than others just because they are made ministers. Hence there is nobody to really act as a watchdog for the voters.
I think creating such a law that puts ministers under parliament would work better for kenya now. Ministers would work more knowing that they are answerable to parliament. This law is way overdue, and it is the best way to go

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Sun May 18, 2008 7:53 am

mimi

The recent removal of Mwatela from CBK left many people bruised, especially the dawida community. Many think it is political, but is it? What is the real story behind the sage? We can speculate all we want, but will we ever know the truth? Our MP's should come out strong to defend their own. She is amongst the few people from Dawida who hold high civil positions.
Personally I was very dissapointed!!

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Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:04 pm

mimi

The recent saga about the deportation of the known author has raised many questions. Is this political? The guy is said to have written a rather controversial book, but was all the saga necessary? Given the fact that Obama is half Kenyan, and many people would like to see him be voted the next president, but the question remains unanswered: What this saga a way to show who Kenya really favors?

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Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:58 pm

mimi

Is there anything improving since the last general elections?

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Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:32 pm

capri59

Awo wandu wawekunda diwilabie kura, wele weko hao?Daichi kuwa wadima kudedanya na waisanga awa wiseko mzinyi aha kwa ichi kijuhungu chedu, lakini mpaka huwu hakuna ungi wafuma aha kudedanya na waisanga awa wiko kula na mzinyi. Angu wele isi kura redu nderina maana? Hata isi dawekunda kumanya ni mipango riki wiko naro ijhi dawisaghua. Fumenyi, angu huwu dashinika moko hao wele?

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Thu May 08, 2008 2:53 pm

mimi

What do you think about all this Majimbo talk?Do you think it can work in Kenya?And you as a mdawida, how do you think the federal system will affect you and dawida as a whole?What is the strategies behind this?How will the areas with no resources sustain themselves?How will Taita benefit and grow when Majimbo are implemented?

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Sun May 17, 2009 3:33 pm

mkwachu

We can jivunia an assistant minister from dawida. Though our hopes were for a minister, its still great that we got an assistant minister. Naomi and Mwatela, we hope you make our taita taveta land be recognized in the new government. Given the fact that there is a ministry for development of arid areas, we hope that you can vouch for taita taveta to be developed. Much of the land like maktau, mwatate, taveta to name just a few, is semi arid. Our hopes are on you two .

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Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:00 am

mwanguku

Looks like Mwatela is the only Mp who has been axed in this forum. Leaves me with alot of questions regarding the other taita MP's. Are they performing any better than the previous MP's? What has changed in their constituents? The promises they made, are they coming a reality? They promised to deliver. What is it that they are changing or rather trying to change in dawida?

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Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:02 am

peter Mwalu

Are daughter and mother in laws sworn enemies? Why is it that in so many cases the two never really get along? What is it that creates the animosity between the two? Is the attention that they have to share? I am one of the lucky ones who has a very good relationship with my in laws. Many at times my friends complain about this ''hatred'between them and their mother in laws. Is it that mothers feel that no woman is good enough for their sons? Is it control behaviour from the mother's side? Is it utterly pure jelousy from the wife's side?

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Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:24 pm

mkwachu

After the dating days are gone when all the pleasing and impressing is past, the gift part is also shelved away. This happens in many relationships. But giving each other gifts goes a long way in boosting your relationship. Gifts are a way to appreciate the other person. A gift could be making packing lunch for your spouse, doing the simple things that you would not normally do. We do not need money to buy expensve gifts. I think gifts mean something in a relationship especially when it comes to women. What's you say?

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Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:32 pm

mkwachu

has anyone been watching Taita lately? I have..there is a time bomb that will explode soon, or rather is exploding now. What is happening with our people? What has happened to our morals?We are sleeping with anyone who cares to spread their legs..we are having numerous affairs without any care in the world about HIV and Aids. Women are sleeping with boys as young as their sons, and man with girls are young as their grand kids. What is going on in Dawida?What people do not understand is the fact that they are just sleeping with each other: mother sleeps with a young boy who then sleeps with his daugther; fathers sleeping with young women who then sleep with their sons, at the end of the day we are all sleeping with each other aren't we? No wonder there is a very alarming rate of HIV and Aids related diseases in the past few years. So many people still have the mentality that HIV can not be real, or atleast it's just in the big towns and cities. The village girl thinks the village boy could not be infected; just the town boy, hence no need to protection..the town boy thinks there is no way a village girl could be infected; no need for protection either..and thats how we are dying.Out of ignorance.
We have a duty to help one another. I owe it to my fellow Wadawida and to myself to educate Wadawida about this disaster that is about to strike the whole Taita out if we do not act soon.
It's time to act now...

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Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:59 am

raheli

I have been following a very interesting discussion at my work place. Well, I mean I know as per our african culture people never used to kiss or even meet when they were courting. But those were old days.Things have changed now. People meet on the first day, like each other kiss, jump into bed and get married. Some can say we have no morals anymore, some say its the modern way. What do you think? Can you meet-kiss-marry the first day?

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Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:54 pm

Kach

It seems like the kenyan brothers are making the kenyan sisters starve themselves to death. Everywhere you go women are striving to be size 6, like the models they see on television. Our brothers have clearly indicated that to be considered sexy you have to be a small size.I personally think a woman should be round figured..hehehe..with some little nyama....so please make it clear to us, our dear brothers..why are you making us shade off that round figure for a size 6?

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Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:24 am

mwanguku

What would make a person cheat on their spouse? Is it the boredom? It is getting tired of routine? Men are said to cheat more on their partners than women. Though I do not think that is the case.I still do not understand why anyone would cheat on their spouse. Why would you cheat?

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Mon May 25, 2009 6:54 am

JMkaya

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Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:39 pm

raheli

People talk about everything, except their bedrooms. Why do we live in such a closed society?Why are not free to talk about these things openly? Why are we able to talk about our jobs, children, family but not this important issue? Some people say the church has alot to do with this. I am not sure I agree with that point. Most churches teach people to abstain from sex till they are married, but the same religions do not teach them how to be once they enter matrimonial life. I think they should take the same initiative to encourage people to talk freely about sex once they are married.
Many marriages break down because of bedroom problems. If only people would talk freely about it, so many of them could be saved.
So help me understand why we shy away from bedroom talks?

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Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:32 pm

mkwachu

This is an interesting topic I must say. People should be encouraged to abstain, especially our youth.But it should not be forced down on their throats I think.Abstaining creates challenge and excitement.
However,it can also be a bad thing. People argue that they would like to know their sexual compatibility before they get married.Which I think is a good thing. I say it's a personal choice. Both sides have advantages and disadvantages I can say.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:05 pm

mkwachu

With all the hype on TV and every information available on internet, we really need to talk to our youth. Young people are finding themselves in situations that they would have avoided if only someone talked to them. We have all sorts of addictions amongst our young people. Drugs, prostitution,pornography, name it. We can ignore it all we want, but I think we need to take up the responsibility of taking and guiding the youth. Schools can not do it alone.
Many parents,if I can say upto 80% of them never ever talk with kids, and when they do they are just giving instructions. We got to talk, and when I say talk I mean have a mature conversation with them. They go through alot in school, with their peers, we should be the people to clarify things for them. 90 % of people from age 15 are sexually active, something that parents want to ignore, but it is happening. We have to talk to them or else we will loose the next generation to HIV, addictions and all the bad vices in this world!!

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Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:09 am

peter Mwalu

They say once someone is married they can forget about romance. People do so much, go out of their way to please their spouses when they are dating..but all that dissapears as soon as they say I do. It could go on for a few years, but with time it dwindles. What happens? Why do people suddenly stop trying to please their partner?What happens to romance when people say I do?

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Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:35 pm

mkwachu

I am sure everybody has had this major crush on someone you shouldn't even be having such thoughts about. Some do lead to relationships. Tell us about your major crush and how it ended

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Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:52 am

Kach

Why waste time wondering what the male species are thinking when we can get all the answers from the male members here. Ask anything concerning men without holding back. let the men answer without fear

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Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:14 pm

mwanguku

It is well known that men and women think totally the opposite. Our dear brothers, let us help you understand us more. Ask us anything, we will answer you honestly.

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Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:04 am

mwanguku

Write open letters to Dr Love. The Doctor promises to answer all your questions:-)

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Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:49 pm

mkwachu

What is the first thing you would notice about a woman? Or rather what attracts you more to a woman? Is it her face? Is it her chest? or is it her behind?

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Tue May 12, 2009 5:23 am

raheli

What attracts you ladies to a man? What is the first thing you would notice when a man walks in? Or rather what draws you to a man? Is it his looks? Is it his six pack? or is it his fat wallet?

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Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:03 pm

mwanguku

Regardless of the fact that you are a man or woman. You need to take someone on a date. The only money between you and poverty is Ksh 100. Mind you this is your very first date. You need to make a lasting impression. How would you do it?

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Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:48 am

raheli

I have been asking myself this question for years now. I have never been able to get an answer. The other day while having chit chat with my workmates, some did finally shade light on this topic. Apparently, there is whole lot more than we know about this issue. Some argued its the bodies. Younger girls are more hard or tight whatever you call it. Their bodies and skins are still very tight and they do not have the ''tyres'' and the love handles. But it still didn't answer my question. What really draws older men to younger girls?

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Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:25 pm

mkwachu

What defines intimacy in a relationship? Is it the ability to communicate without talking? Is it holding hands? Is it having a strong chemistry? What defines intimacy in your language?

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Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:45 pm

mimi

With the inter tribal/racial/religion relationships that we see these days...I am left wondering. How important is your religion and belief when it comes to your relationship. Does it count? Why? If it doesnt count, why not? Would you break up a very good relationship because you differed in religion? Would you change your religion? Would you be flexible enough to accept your spouse's different religious beliefs?

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Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:31 pm

e-smile

Many have argued that love is all you need to keep a relationship going. I do agree with that. But after many months/ years or being together, love is not the only ingredient that makes a successful relationship. My opinion is that there are 3 bacis ingredients
1. Trust
2.Honesty
3Patience.

But I could be wrong. What, in your opinion makes your relationship successful?

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Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:28 pm

e-smile

Is there healthy and un healthy kind of jealousy? I don't think so. Human beings have some sort of jealousy in them all.But when one partner is extremely jealous, it could ruin a relationship.
Maybe I am wrong, could jealousy be actually a positive thing in any relationship?

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Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:18 pm

mkwachu

In your opinion,why are modern day marriages failing so badly?

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Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:00 am

raheli

Do we really know Kidawida? Can we say proudly that we can understand, speak and translate taita proverbs and sayings? Personally I do not think I know much of it. May the real mdawida help us learn :-p

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Sat May 30, 2009 2:51 pm

mkwachu

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Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:14 am

peter Mwalu

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Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:54 am

raheli

I love reading. I would like to know what book you are reading now or you read last. How was it? Share with us...

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Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:16 pm

mimi

I believe everyone had a nickname that they hated when they were growing up. It could be a name that was given to you by your sibblings..or people who you didn't get along with in school...

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Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:39 pm

JMkaya

How come nobody has ever made a collection of our traditional music? I have never heard of a mwazindika or kishawi CD..Have you?

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Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:34 am

capri59

Apart from Sheila Mwanyigha and the famous guy who lives in USA called Shu, and of course Abel Kifoto and the old good artists, I can not recall ever knowing any other taita musician. refresh my memory, maybe I am ill informed. I ask myself all the time, can't wadawida sing?
What are our talents then? We don't run, we don't play soccer, what are our talents?

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Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:46 pm

e-smile

I am just thinking aloud..where do taita people excel in best? I know of a few sports people like the young men who are very good players on rugby, Nyambu and Mshila. Those are the onlye taita people I know who have made it in sports. Help me here, do you know of any great sports people in our community?

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Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:05 pm

mimi

Post your childhood photos here. Photos taken when you were not aware of anything. Photos taken when you were dirty, full of manong'o and dirt all over. Then we vote for the best childhood photo of the year

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Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:13 pm

JMkaya

It still feels like we are in the 14th century. It is a shame that all Internet providers in Kenya have totally ignored Dawida. Posta did try give us Internet but that failed too. It is so painful that even in 2007 we have to travel all the way to Voi to access internet, and have to wait for hours to just check mail.To make the matters worse one has limited time as everybody else wants to use the services. What is happening? Are we too small for ISP's? Why did Posta stop the internet services in Wundanyi?

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Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:03 pm

mwakabangi

I have travelled the world, but I must admit that Dawida is one of the most beautiful places we have in our Kenya. The beautiful forests, the water falls, the wildlife, all these things that we Wadawida take for granted.I think Dawida has enough potential to ''discover'' yet another source of generating income for the locals. We have very beautiful tourist attraction sites. Our own Vuria and Iyale are enough. All we need to do is construct small camping places for visitors. We have many picnic places, we have many waterfalls, and hiking places. We have picnic places. I think we should do something about this...take advantage of the natural resources that God gave us..and who knows, one day Dawida will be famous for having the highest number of tourists going camping in their beautiful hills.

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Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:23 am

e-smile

More than 50% of Dawida land is taken up by Tsavo National park. The rest is taken up by the sisal estate, and the little left is not enough for the community. Just like the Maasai people have control of Maasai Mara, i think the taita should also fight to get control of Tsavo. At least the part that is in taita land. People could benefit, the money could be used to repair roads, dig water wells, build more schools, improve the life of the people of the community. We are too laid back, we do not fight for our rights. If we can not get control of the park, then maybe we should at least get 50 % of the income from Tsavo.
Same thing should be applied in the mining industry. People come to mine in our land, when done they leave the quarries and the land useless. I think we wadawida should fight for this. The mining companies should be forced to give back to the society, even something as small as 5% of their annual income. They could repair roads, etc.. We need to get up from our comfort zone and fight for dawida!!!

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Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:46 pm

Mwalugha wa Mwamburi

Where are the young taita business persons? I know we have a lot of potential to make it in business. I also believe that we have so many young brains with so many ideas that are waiting to try out their ideas. I also believe that there are so many whose ideas have made it big. I am calling up on all the business persons in dawida. Lets join hands and form a business community. Let us take taita to the next level, economically. Lets empower our community

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Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:06 am

costa

Dawida is said to have natural resources that when used carefully can transform the lives of people of the great dawida land.
We would like to bring these to our members, any one with an idea should come forward and say it here,we help each other and people who want to invest in dawida.

1) Bird tourism . This is a multi million business. South africa have made billions of money with this. Why can't anyone start that? We have one of the rare bird species in the world. The best forests in the world.

2)Commercial timber.

Come on guys..help me out here. I know you have ideas as well..

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Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:10 am

e-smile

Many jobs available in malvides hotels. Check out
www.jobs-maldives.com

For those who want internet based jobs, check out

http://www.lionbridge.com/lionbridge/en ... essors.htm

Post any other jobs here.

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Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:21 am

mmghendi

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Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:59 pm

mimi

The only amount you have been are able to spare after all your expenses is Ksh 5,000.00. You need to invest it somehow,invest it wisely to make sure at the end of the year you break even.
What are the best ten ways to invest this money?

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Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:43 pm

Kach

Is there any organisation or the a government body that is offering family planning education in dawida?

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Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:21 pm

mkwachu

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Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:08 am

raheli

Even though many kids have benefited from the free education politcy, i think the education quality has gone down. Schools especially public ones are just a mess. The ratio of teacher student is way above what they can handle. The attention that was given to individual students is now gone. The teachers have cope with a burden of too much work. Don't get me wrong, it was the best things to happen, but the government need a better plan for this to work and benefit anyone. They need to hire more teachers and pay them better to maintain them in public schools. If something is not done, the kids will get poor quality education

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Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:08 am

peter Mwalu

CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO- Nation Media Group
It is still early days in the Olympics and – how shall we put it? – Africa’s performance in the Games is still “young”.
When I last checked, no African country had won a gold yet. The highest placed country from the continent was Zimbabwe, with three silvers.
Algeria had one bronze. And Togo one. Nothing surprising there, as we are still going through the sports where Africa has no pedigree – gymnastics, rowing, cycling, weight-lifting, archery, fencing, equestrian events, and so forth.

When it comes to track events, the story will change.

Kenya, Ethiopia and Morocco will clean out most of the middle- and long-distance running events, and climb into the top half of the medals tally.
The middle classes in Africa don’t produce great sportsmen and women, so most people from working and peasant backgrounds who cannot afford to participate in any sports where you need to join a club dominate sports.
So we excel in football, which young Africans master by kicking home-made fibre balls in the village square.
Excellence in running says something about our politics.
We are always running – running away from the anti-riot police; running away from thieves; women constantly running away from rapists; fleeing armed conflict or persecution and ending up as refugees in neighbouring countries and exiles in faraway lands.
And daily, people flee the poverty of the rural areas for the deceptive lights of the cities.
You would have thought we would be good at weight-lifting. Wrong. Too many people are going hungry in Africa, so, rightly, it would not have been proper to squander food on a few fellows so they can go lift weights in Beijing.
What puzzles me most is that Africa doesn’t dominate archery. Definitely, no other continent uses bows and arrows for primary purposes as much as Africa.
In many African cities, you meet hundreds of security guards armed with bows and arrows going to protect the homes of the well-off members of society.
And bows and arrows are still used as weapons in conflicts, the way they were used in other parts of the world in ancient times.
Take the post-election violence in Kenya early this year.
In the Rift Valley, arrows were deployed to deadly effect. It is a mystery that from all these security guards and arrow warriors, this continent can’t find a single man or woman to go to the Olympics and claim gold.
Zimbabwe, which is Africa’s best performer at this point, owes its silvers mostly to its white citizens, ironically special targets of Robert Mugabe’s repression.

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Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:11 pm

Kach

With all the western influence managing our kenyan lives, what happens now. In the past years we have seen many gay people both men and women come out openly. They even had a demonstration once to stand up for their rights. Shocking as it may sound, some people are already observing animal behaviour just to prove that animals are also gay, and it is the way of nature. I do not have any bad feeling about the gay people, as a matter of fact I have respect for all human beings regardless of their sexual preference.I am just asking how you think and feel about this gay issue in kenya. Can religion and african culture adopt and accept that? What would you do if one of your famil member was gay?

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Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:49 pm

Kach

I couldn't help envy those fellows in Nyahururu who had the chance to play in snow. You could see the excitement and life in their faces when they finally had the experience of snow. I think they would have loved to skate and ski as well. It was such an envious experience for the fellows in the area. I used to think Taita hills is a very cold place, especially Mgange Nyika and Vuria. There were times when the cold was always misty and wet. In the 80's Mgange used to be cold. But isn't it cold enough to snow? I sure would love to ski in Vuria and Iyale
Maybe mother nature is not on our side

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Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:42 pm

mimi

WWW.JUMBOSERVERS.COM

WWW.TIELICT.COM

WWW.WEBMASTERSKENYA.COM

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Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:32 pm

mimi

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Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:39 pm

Catherine Mghoi

This is something we are trying to do for our dear mothers and younger sisters in the villages. Have a look.Critical eye needed.

WWW.SENORAARISE.ORG

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Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:01 pm

mbashu

The fastest growing inter racial dating in Kenya.

WWW.AFROJEWEL.COM

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Thu May 07, 2009 4:21 pm

mkwachu

Please post here any advertisement about your company. Make it short and to the point. Avoid using many images, they take up a lot of space. Also avoid too much un necessary text.

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Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:59 pm

Ngali Juma

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