Remember this Song?... anyone?
Remember this song on VOK radio morning in the mid eighties,
Hata wewe karani, amka kumekucha, Kwani hizi ndizo saa za kwenda kazi
Hata wewe mwalimu amka kumekucha, kwani hizi ndizo saa za kwenda shule
Uvivu ndio adui, wa ujenzi wa taifa, jiepushe na uvivu...wewe!
Tujenge taifa!
And we thought every one was jengaring the nation then. How so naive we were!
posted by Martin @ 3:59 AM
8 Comments:
Haha I can't believe you know all those words...I just remember the tune. I think though people were actually building the nation then, there was a sense of spirt even though there was still corruption and what not. Although now, when people are saying we are 'building the nation' nothing is happening. Better when it was being done in one spirit in silence, less disappointment that way!
yeah those were the days. Had this Bata Shoes advert that would run a day or so before opening day. it sounded worse than a dirge (actually it was a dirge, the death of fun, enter homework hell)
Hello,
Its nice to see you have set up a blog.
That KBC song was one depressing song, coz thats around the time we woke up to go to school..that song didn't make things any easier. Guys who sang those songs will forever be remembered.
I wonder what songs young people wake up to nowdays in Kenya....I love the generation that i was born into not too complicated.
Nonini 'We kamu' I suppose? Anyway, Kids today don't play stuff like Kati, shake and stuff. You know in Buru we had our own annual safari rally with cars made out of oil cans? Thats what made hols fun then. Now, I dont know what kids do for fun
I hated that song, it was a rude awakening for me which meant time to go to school. Mathy would turn up the radio so loud every morning, no wonder i can't stand Kwachness(loudness) in the morning after like a decade. But sometimes when i listen to the blabbering in FM stations i miss that song.
There were so many songs that defined our times. Remember the one for KBC's four o'clock news on radio? I kumbuka that's when the mboch would be sending me for maziwa mbili na mkate with a 5 bob coin! IMAGINE! What can that get you now? Even a ball gum is too expensive. As §anaa said I too love the generation that I grew up in.
That song reminded me of the one which used to say:
Safari ya japani,
tulifanikiwa,
tulipofika tokyo kuyaleta magala,
Ya kuweka mahindi ii ii
They used to be played one after the other.
I didn't like them but when they didn't play, I would miss them. As one of my former teachers once said, such songs were so boring they were nice to listen to because of their boringness.
looolll, i remember that song, there also came a line, *hata wewe mwenzangu, amka kumekucha, kamata jembe na panga, twende shamba!!!!*
funny song!
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