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INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Isaac Kaura Ngore Ameru from long ago lived in clans for cultural identity. Ameru lived as identities of their various clans and therefore, they lived decent lives in order to be acceptable in the community. They ensured that no one married his sister or a close relative. Marrying a close relative made them have deformed children and unknown diseases and other misfortunes in life. Also clan members never conducted marriage between themselves. It was anathema for a man and a woman of the same clan to marry. Therefore, a Mmeru needed to know his clan...

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera Without farming and cultivation, the world population would never exist because humans live on food consumption, work and prayer. Without food, work and prayer there is no human existence. All humans live because they eat food and food is produced from farms by people who cultivate their farms to feed themselves and others after they have produced excess in their farms. From long ago Ameru of Kenya were farmers and builders of the Pyramids in Egypt the country of their origin after they had crossed the Red Sea from the Middle East where ...

Rev. Father Francesco Soldati, a Catholic missionary, born in Italy in 1921, came to Kenya in 1951 and arrived in Chuka Meru in the same year. He worked at Egoji mission up to August 1953 when he came to Tuuru mission, Igembe region in September 1953. Thereafter, he worked and lived in Igembe region for his entire life; converting people to Christianity; bringing development projects for the people of Igembe for over fifty years. He lived a holy life; entirely for Christ and served people of God faithfully till when he was crippled by malarial disease that forced him to be flown back to ...

INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua The Europeans arrived in Kenyan Coast in AD 1840’s as Missionaries through John Rebmann and Doctor Ludwig Krapf who founded Protestant Missions in Mombasa in 1840’s. When British Colonizers arrived later, they started their settlements at the Coast and began their settlements in Giriamaland. By 1910, the British owned plantations in Giriamaland and they needed laborers to work in their plantations. In addition, the colonizers demanded taxes from the natives. No man had any courage to oppose “forced labor and taxes” from the colonizers other ...

Because writers are progressive and responsive, they stick to their routine in search of more information to justify their thinking. They therefore peruse existing records and compare, relate and analyze them to come up with fresh assumptions and conclusions. By doing so, they open up fresh topics for discussions and debates by the contemporary parties. That is how history is made and recorded in its chronicles. Ameru writers and authors in the past have lauded Meru History on the basis of “probably and possibly,” “may be or perhaps,” “this and that happened” in the making of ...

The world is full of funny events! God created flora and fauna with physical features that are the home of the humans, animals and plants. All these creatures are the products of nature through God’s power and everlasting arrangement. A human uses animals and plants for his survival. Thus, both physical features, humans, animals and plants are sustained and accommodated by nature. Nature allows animals to exploit other weak creatures for their survival. Nature also allows humans to exploit animals as their prey and food for their survival. However, the undisputable fact is that, God ...

READ MORE TO LIVE LONGER LIFE By Gichunge WA M’Thirua Publishing of documents and books is a very expensive industry in Kenya. It is expensive because Kenyans have never acquired high standard publishing machines and equipment in the country. Kenyans read imported books though the contents of those books are sometimes local materials. Kenyans trust imported National Examinations, they trust imported election materials and they trust imported books printed in foreign countries. Kenyans should learn to trust their own! Today, all Kenyans complain about the cost of textbooks for their ...

By Gichunge WA M'Thirua God created you for a good purpose. You cannot deny or disown that special purpose in your life. In life, you cannot deny to have participated in the salvation of another person in life. You cannot deny to have assisted another person in one way or another in your life. You cannot deny the use of your life by God for one thing or another to save the soul of another person in life. Absolutely, you are useful to others in your life even without your liking. May you remember that Jesus poured out his blood and his love for all your needs, yourself and others? Now, you ...

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua In the whole world, leaders sacrifice their lives to serve their communities and societies. Leadership is about sacrifice to serve people and not to accumulate wealth. Leadership is not about accumulating wealth when sharing the resources to the communities. Leadership is about dispensing services to the people. It is about fairness and justice to the people. Long ago, politicians never directly shared the resources to their communities. Instead, Ministers of the ruling Government used to serve communities across their Ministries through responsibilities entrusted ...

God is the Creator of everything in the universe and He is all-powerful (Omnipotent), He is all knowing, (Omniscient), He is everywhere (Omnipresent), He provides and protects everything (He is Providence) in the universe. God gave humans power, knowledge, but denied them ability to be everywhere at the same time, and He limited their ability to have everything they need in life. Humans have limitations of their power, knowledge, and ability to be everywhere and to provide fully for themselves in life. The limitations originated with the first humans after they had disobeyed God in the ...

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua Ameru of Kenya are a community that lived in Egypt for centuries to become the Pyramids builders after they had crossed the Red Sea on being disturbed by other races that lived in the Middle East where God had created them. Ameru have the longest history in existence. In Egypt, the rulers of the country demanded impossible tasks from Ameru because they were expert builders. Ameru therefore, decided to escape instead of surrendering their expertise. Their escape landed them in Mboa (Manda Island) in Kenya before AD 1100. Ameru lived in Mboa up to about AD 1650 when ...

Introduction Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera Ameru are a community in Kenya. They are a peaceful people who love to live in freedom and harmoniously with their neighbors. Millenniums and millenniums ago, they crossed the Red Sea to live in Egypt. In Egypt, they became experts in Pyramids’ building and other constructions. Rulers forced them to surrender their technology to them and instead of surrendering their technology; they escaped and meandered their way to Mboa (Manda Island) in the Kenyan coast. They lived there peacefully until when the Portuguese started to ...

Brother Giuseppe Argese - Mukiri arrived in Igembe on 24th, December 1957 along with Brother John Comaron of Mujwa Mission, as an architect, but after about ten years at Tuuru Mission, and after opening Tuuru Children's Home for the Cripples; he felt the pain for the lack of water at Tuuru mission. He therefore, adopted another extra imperative role of a water engineer without realizing the future weight and the demand it place upon his shoulders in order to satisfy the community with water he had chosen to give them in the region. In 1960, along with three other Brothers, they managed to ...

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera Ameru people of Kenya, in Meru County are the people who practiced democracy even before the Europeans arrived in Africa and particularly in Kenya. The history of Ameru indicates that they lived in Egypt and they escaped from Egypt after which they meandered in the wilderness of Africa from around AD 745 to find their way to Mboa (Manda Island) in Kenya before AD 1100. Before their escape from Egypt, they had been among the most advanced people at the time. Their fields of advancement included constructions and leadership, though in ...

INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera Publishing of documents and books is a very expensive industry anywhere in the world. Especially in Kenya, publishing is an expensive industry. It is expensive because Kenyans have never acquired high standard publishing machines and equipment in the country. Therefore, Kenyans read imported books though the contents of those books are sometimes local materials. Kenyans trust imported National Examinations, they trust imported election materials and they trust imported books printed in foreign countries. Kenyans and not only...

AMERU KENYA BELIEVED IN GICHIARO BETWEEN CLANS INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera – Coauthor Ameru are a community of Kenya who live in Meru County Kenya. Ameru were among communities created in the Middle East like other people and lived there until when races and communities dispersed due to various reasons. Ameru crossed the Red Sea and settled in Egypt (Eenji mbuuti/Diggers of holes when planting) for centuries when they escaped from the hard rule of the rulers. Ameru meandered in the wilderness of Nubia, Ethiopia, Congo, Rwanda, and through Tanzania to...

AMERU WERE COLONIZED AFTER MELEE INTRODUCTION By Gichunge WA M’Thirua Ameru of Kenya have a long and interesting history in their existence. Their history traces back to when they crossed The Red Sea where they were created by God to live in Egypt for millenniums. In Egypt they were experts of the Pyramids construction. They escaped from Egypt after refusing to surrender their knowledge of Pyramids construction technology. They escaped and arrived in Mboa (Manda Island) in the Kenyan Coast around AD 1100 after they had meandered in the wilderness of Egypt, Nubia and Meroe from AD 745 to ...

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua Ameru of Kenya believes that they were created by God somewhere outside Kenya and that they crossed the Red Sea to live in Egypt for millenniums. Ameru were forced to leave Egypt by harsh and cruel rulers. They arrived in Mboa and lived there for centuries (approx. AD 1100 to AD 1650). Thereafter, they escaped to evade the Nguuntune (Portuguese) who hunted them as slaves for export to Americas from around AD 1650. Ameru also believe that before the arrival of the Nguuntune (the Portuguese), Arabs used to hunt them as slaves and export them somewhere before they ...

THUUTHIU AND KARIBULU (SOCIAL SCIENTISTS) OF AMERU Ameru since time immemorial lived to know, respect, and honor their God. The community believed in the existence of God and embraced the existence of the next world where they acknowledged that the dead lived nearer God. Thuuthiu and Karibulu (Social Scientists) were what connected the living communities and the societies with their dead relatives and friends. Ameru community never completely forgot their dead relatives. They invoked their dead in the name of God whom they believed had taken them to the next world near Him. They therefore, ...

CLANS OF AMERU IN KENYA SUMMARY By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M'Ringera Ameru of Kenya are a community that lived in Egypt for centuries to become the Pyramids builders after they had crossed the Red Sea on being disturbed by other races that lived in the Middle East where God had created them. In Egypt, the rulers of the country demanded impossible tasks from Ameru because they were expert builders. Ameru decided to escape instead of surrendering their expertise. Their escape landed them in Mboa (Manda Island) in Kenya around AD 1050. Ameru lived in Mboa up to about AD 1650 ...