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I am soon wanting to start artwork and stories in that account.", "writing": "[i][b]Disclaimer:[/b] Though there are basic elements of this story based on real life, much of the scenarios in it are either loosely based or added for story purposes and entertainment.[/i]\n\n@moyomongoose\nMoyo is a male, African banded mongoose who was born at home on May 1st, 1954 in what was then British occupied Kenya. Moyo is of a mild mannered demeanor and appears outwardly to be a bit naive, but sees things as they really are. Moyo is loving, sexy and cute. His sexual orientation is straight, and he is loyal in any sexual relationship. Moyo is also honest. He feels more comfortable with someone having $50 that belongs to him, than to have $50 of someone else's money wrongfully taken.\nDuring the time Moyo and the eight other siblings were growing up, home was in Turkana County in the northern part of Rift Valley Province, Kenya. In fact, from the old Jais Mongoose Family homestead was about a 30 to 45 drive to the shore of Lake Turkana where you can look out and see Crocodile Island, which was formed from a now mostly inactive volcano.\nThere is some illiteracy, little modern technology and most of the locals have always been poor, however with a few exceptions such as those from prosperous tribes and families. But everyone is helpful to each other. And Moyo gets by well with a 7th grade education.\nMoyo is from a family of nine siblings including himself...Six other siblings are older than Moyo, and two are younger.\nThe birth order goes as follows: \nChege (born 3-25-35 male), \nMakena (born 2-4-39 female),\nKioni (born 4-8-44 female), \nRuguru (born 1-15-47 male),\nChanya (born 3-6-49 female), \n**Kanja (born 12-15-52 male),\nMoyo (born 5-1-54 male), \nJomo (born 9-10-55 male), \nJabet (born 8-30-57 female). \nMoyo and siblings are 1/4 binturong and 1/4 Pokot tribal African banded mongoose from their mother, Aluna Jais Mongoose (formally Aluna Tatazu Mongoose {pronounced Ah-loo'-nah Tat-taz'-zoo})...And 1/2 Kikuyu tribal African banded mongoose from their dad, Makori Jais Mongoose (pronounced Ma-koo'-rye Jay'-es). BTW, Makori Mongoose's grand dad on his mother's side of the family was an Indian mongoose. So there is also 1/8 Indian mongoose from dad's side of the family in the genepool of Moyo and the siblings. With no \"real\" hospital being nearby, all members of the family, like all other locals, had been born in the homes and tribal villages where they grew up...Hospitals were considered to be for the ill and injured anyway, and the locals certainty did not deem being born as an illness or an injury.\n**Kanja, Moyo and Jomo were already uncles, as well Jabet being already an aunt, at the times of their birth. Early in the year of 1951, oldest brother Chege, at age 16, got his 17 year old girl friend, Jahaira, pregnant. A few weeks after Chege and Jahaira agreed to get married, their first cub, a female, was born on March 1st, 1951, whom they named Dafina Jais Mongoose. Two years later, Chege and Jahaira's first son was born on June 30th, 1953, whom they named Kanoro Jais Mongoose. During family visits, Dafina, Kanoro and their younger aunt and uncles, **Kanja, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet, and sometimes along with their older uncle and aunt, Chanya and Ruguru, would play together as though they were all siblings. \n**Kanja (Moyo's next older brother) was born borderline mentally challenged, IQ of 76, well below average but not fully mentally retarded (retardation is 69 to 70 and below). Still the same, Kanja Jais Mongoose is loved by his family, friends and locals, and no one makes fun of him over his being mentally impaired. However, there was the time someone did dare to do so...While the family was enjoying an evening out at a cafe' in the hometown of Lodwar, a local jackal sitting at the counter, who had been drinking, was getting to be obnoxious . \nThe intoxicated jackal eventually turned around, stared at Kanja a moment, then began calling him, \"Mpumbavu...Kijinga Kanja\" (Foolish one...Stupid Kanja). \nImmediately, Daddy Makori Mongoose sprang up from the family's table, yanked the jackal off his stool at the counter, and beat the living Hell out of the jackal for it so bad it was five minutes before he could stand back to his feet...An empty table and two chairs even got knocked over in the process.\nAfter the jackal was able to stand back up on his feet, the proprietor of the cafe', an African civet, told the jackal, \"I om oskin' ya ta leeve... Usirudi kamwe!… Goh!... Geet!\" (I am asking you to leave...Do not return, never!... Go!... Get!).\nAs the now battered jackal limped and staggered his way to the front door to leave the cafe', other patrons in the cafe' who knew the Jais Mongoose Family expressed harsh disdain against the jackal for how he mistreated Kanja Mongoose...\n...The jackal never dared to call Kanja those kind of names again.\nKanja's younger brothers Moyo and Jomo possesses IQs of around 89, borderline between average and very slightly below average. Jabet's IQ is 93, lower end of average...Mamma Mongoose was getting up into her older age by the time she gave birth to Kanja, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet. \nSister Kioni is the genius of the siblings with a high average IQ of 118. The rest of the siblings; Chege, Makena, Ruguru and Chanya have average IQs ranging between 97 to 105. \nMoyo is from a family that started out with a fairly low income, but not as poverty stricken as a Meerkat Family and others in Southern rural Angola had been...However, the family income would improve as time goes on...Because Makori Mongoose is from the more prosperous Kikuyu tribe (pronounced Kick-koo'-you), the village of Makori's family provided financial assistance to help Makori start out with bidding at liquidation auctions on storage units and warehouse lots that had become debt delinquent, then selling the contents at vendor's markets for a profit...Then later getting into going into the cities and investing and selling tax foreclosed properties, some of which having rent income...That assistance is reserved only for members of Kikuyu tribal families, whether they reside in or away from a village, and for no one else. However, there is a lifelong obligation that comes with accepting that assistance...A member of a Kikuyu tribal family who prospers as a result of receiving tribal assistance to start a business is expected to donate 5% to 17% of business earnings back into the tribe, collected quarterly throughout the year for a lifetime. The percentage of what is collected fluctuates with income level and profit margin being earned by the individual. Much of what is collected by the tribe is then in turn given to assist other tribal members who wish to go out into the \"modern world\" and become prosperous. It is an investment in both the individual tribal member and the tribe, thus why the Kikuyu Tribe and it's members prosper better than other tribes do. \nEven back during the time Moyo and Family had been below the middle class income level, they've still always enjoyed a standard of living considerably above that of the 3rd world. \nThe family home is fairly sizable, old, wood frame, with a slightly rusted tin roof, and the floors creek a little. The house is surrounded completely by porch, and what would be the attic is an upper story with gables...what some realtors would call \"an old, white elephant house\". But the house, 100+ years old now days and still standing, is built of 19th to 20th century construction which is modern for the time it was built, with wooden walls, floors and roof structure...as oppose to the small, clay wall, dirt floor homes like are quite common throughout the local countryside.\nBTW, Makori, with help from some of his relatives within the Kikuyu tribe, was able to successfully bid on that old house that a French marmot couple lost in a tax delinquency foreclosure auction...The lifelong gratuity reimbursement for receiving the money to bid on that house was not expected by the leader and elders of the tribal village, because that help came from only within Makori Mongoose's family. \nOver the years, floors in the bathroom, kitchen and parlor had gotten in pretty bad condition. Those three rooms were eventually re-floored with plywood and tiled. \nThe parlor floor is shown in the BB code tag below;\n\n[mediumthumb]507035[/mediumthumb]\n\nWalls in the parlor and living room have been wood paneled and stained dark mauve, the kitchen and two other rooms have been dry-walled, the bathroom walls have been ceramic tiled, and most of the rooms and the hallway still bare the original lath and plaster troweled stucco the house was built with.\nThe bathroom wall tile is shown in the BB code tag below;\n\n[mediumthumb]1185562[/mediumthumb]\n\nThe house was originally built in 1907 without electricity. In 1958, electrical service became available through a rural development program, which was also about the time the British had granted Kenya the freedom to hold elections...It was a year earlier, in 1957, the clay and gravel, north-south highway A1 was paved with asphalt blacktop. \n[mediumthumb]1302218,2[/mediumthumb] [mediumthumb]1300127[/mediumthumb]\nIt was in that year of 1958 that Highway D348 from out of Kolokol, which runs by not far from the Jais Mongoose homestead, was also paved.\nWhile the rural development program was moving forward, since about 1952 the country had become rather politically unstable due to the struggle for independence from Britain. A few years into the 1950s, some parts of the country had actually become dangerous, due to a rebel movement, known as Kenya Land and Freedom Fighters, who's members aim was to take Kenya's struggle for independence to the next level - a civil war. However, it was by 1956, that the British had put a stop to that movement, although a state of national emergency by the British was to still be maintained until December of 1959...\n...By the way, many of those freedom fighters were from the Kikuyu tribe...Daddy Makori Mongoose's tribe.\nAnd even though Daddy Makori Mongoose usually assumes the role of dominant decision maker of the family, Mama Aluna Mongoose did make it clear to Daddy, \"Daun't yah deaih geet eenvoaved en dat fighten movement\" ...which Daddy Makori did agree. \nDuring that rural development program, and despite of the struggle going on for Kenya's independence, there were many local animals and their families who were building homes that were more comfortable, although a few of them were a bit shack like with corrugated tin exteriors. The old thatch tribal huts they've always lived in were either abandoned, used as utility buildings or given to other of their relatives. \nIn the summer of 1960 (when Moyo was age 6) the house was wired for electricity. The wiring was installed on the outer surfaces of the walls and ceilings, under decorative wire guards, as was done with many buildings in those days that didn't originally have electricity. \nHaving electricity also made it possible to run a well pump so plumbing could be piped into the house, which was done in that same year with help from a rural development program grant awarded to the family...Since 1960, water no longer had to be carried in from the well by pails for drinking, cooking, bathing and toilet flushing (Of course, being animals with no clothing, there are no laundry needs except for blankets, towels and wash rags). \n\n The family cars have always been old station wagons or old utility vehicles (not 'sport utility'). However, the cars the family has owned, although old, have been in pretty fair to good shape, and not in a condition to the extent of being ragged, rusted out and falling apart.\nThe car Moyo's family had when Moyo was born was a 1951 Standard Vanguard wagon like the one in the link below, except the Mongoose Family's car was right paw drive and being purchased used, did show some age. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rq-yzFgGog\n\nIn 1963, when Moyo's younger brother, Jomo, was 8 years of age, Kenya's first president, President Jomo Kenyarusso Aardwolf, was elected following the country's independence from British rule...Kenya was finally an independent nation, and no longer a British colony.\nBeing that President Jomo Aardwolf had the same first name as Jomo Mongoose, the siblings would always joke around about that.\nThey would say to their little bro, \"Jomo. Ah you da presadeent?\".\nJomo would reply, \"Nahhhh!...Meh not da presadeent\".\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta\nIt would be the following year, 1964, that the independence of the Republic of Kenya would be officially proclaimed. And the way everything turned out was a sigh of relief for the Jais Mongoose Family and other anthro-animals the family knew. That was because during the few years leading up to Kenya gaining it's independence, many of the locals had concerns the newly founded country might go the route of being a communist country. The fact that the Soviet Union had been eyeing up Africa when many of the countries on the continent were decolonizing was cause for grave concern...However, very fortunately, and good it was, Kenya did [i][b]not[/b][/i] go communist, thus was founded as a free nation. \n\nBy the year 1964, Makori's brother, Omran had also been doing well with investing in financially distressed real estate, and had a steady rent income from several rental houses in Nairobi. Omran and his wife Jiona, with their sons Hali and Anasa, and daughters Issa and Elea, lived in the nearby Kikuyu tribal village...Although the city of Nairobi was far away, Omran and Jiona always received the rent payments from their tenants by mail on time.\nAnd because Omran, Jiona and their cubs lived in a tribal village, there was almost no cost of living except for the gratuity paid to the village chief for the financial help that got their income started. Most of the food came from off the land. Water was drawn from a creek. There were no utilities, thus no utility bills...The only utility was a phone shared by the village (rotary dial phone in those days), and that was in a lock box mounted on a telephone pole near the paved highway at the beginning of the three kilometer (one and a half mile), dirt lane that leads to the village. The locked box prevented strangers from pulling off the highway and stealing use of the phone. The key to the phone box was on a ring hung on the porch of the chief's house for who ever in the village needed to go up the three kilometer dirt lane and use the phone...Everyone had use of the phone - Everyone shared the phone bill.\nIn April of 1964, Omran and Jiona decided to take a two month, overseas trip with their cubs to the U. S. The family had already obtained their Kenyan passports a few months earlier. Needless to say, Issa, Hali, Elea and Anasa were very excited. It would be the first time for Omran and Jiona being away from the African continent, and the first time for the cubs being out of Kenya. And the trip being from mid April to late June would not be a conflict with the cubs schooling either, being that they attended school there in the village, thus making the schedule easy to work around.\nBefore the departure date of the trip, some of the adolescent animals in the village asked Omran, \"Ah da streets REALLAE poved weet gold in Ameeikah?! Ya theenk dey woot let ya breeng sume bock heah?!\". \nChief Abasi Mongoose, knowing better, laughed and informed the adolescents, \"Dea aun't na gold on da steets theah. Heh heh heh. Dot es jost ah ole sayen.\".\nAnyway, everyone in the village did wish the family an enjoyable trip.\nWhen Omran with his wife and cubs later visited his brother, Makori, Makori and Aluna asked if they would bring some pictures back of the U.S. when they return to Kenya.\n\"Weel hov lots a pictchas\", Omran assured. Ond mehbe siveneeahs\".\nThe mention of souvenirs being brought back really got Kanja, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet cheering. \nJomo, then not quite age 9, asked Mom and Dad, \"Con we go wit Ouncle Omron an Aunt Jiona to Ameeikah?!\".\n\"Weh con't caus weh doon't hov posspots ta go theah\", Makori answered Jomo.\n\"Awww\", Jomo exclaimed.\n\"Weh ceut propbly teak ah trip laitah on\", Aluna assured Jomo.\nThen came up that thing of gold streets again...\n...Moyo, then going on age 10, asked, \"Ouncle Omran! Ouncle Omran! Con ya breeng bock sume gold froam da streets?! Ah lot ov et?!...Dot es, ef dey hov eextah dey doon't need!\".\n\"Hah hah hah, Moyo, meh deeah nephew\", Omran laughed. \"De streets en Ameeikah doun't hov gold. Dot es just ah sayen. I bet all ovah de wold dey say dot\".\n\"Ha ha ha. Dot es fo shoua\", Makori agreed.\n\"Oh\", Moyo said as the rest of the adults had a good laugh.\n\"Soh dot meen animols en Ameerikah es poor den?\", Kanja asked.\n\"Et doon't meen dot, Kanja\", Aluna told her son. \"Et es just da streets ah not mode ought ov gold\".\nChanya, who had just turned 16, asked her Uncle Omran and Aunt Jiona if they would bring back lots of souvenirs.\nRuguru was going on age 17 then. He asked Uncle Omran if he could get him some nostalgic memorabilia to display in his room.\n\"I theenk I hov ta meek ah list ov wot eveah one wants\", Omran chuckled.\n\"Con ya breeng meh ah Babie en Ken poodle dolls?...Pleeeezzze?...Ond ah Babie en Ken cah fa dem ta ride en?\", Jabet, who was not quite age 7, asked.\nFinally, Aluna said, \"Ah-kae, meh coubs. Ya meekin ya Ouncle Omran feel lok Sonta Beah ot Chreesmas time\".\nAs for Chege, Makena and Kioni, they were already adults and out on their own, and the two oldest married and raising cubs, thus they were not present at the time.\nWhen Omran, Jiona and their cubs took their trip to the U.S., their destination spot was what was formally Colonial Virginia, which included tourist attractions in Jamestown, Williamsburg, Hampton and Newport News.\nUpon their arrival at the Patrick Henry Airport, Omran and Jiona acquired a rental car for transportation. Originally, the car rental agent, Jerry Raccoon, was going to rent them a then brand new 1964 Chevy Impala Super Sport convertible, two door in bright red. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmIV_VKWd4 \nWOW! The mongooses didn't see very many cars THIS big in Kenya...This was some car.\nHowever, it was not like the 1957 Vauxhall station wagon that Omran and Jiona has back in Kenya where their cubs can ride in the back. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_GNirf1A4\n\"Woll, Jehree\", Omran said to Jerry Raccoon. \"Dees cah es nice. Bot do ya hov aeh steshon wogon?\".\n\"Weh do hov aw faw coubs. We need mah room\", Jiona added.\nJerry Raccoon, being American, was not use to the Kenyan dialect, and had to ask Omran and Jiona to repeat themselves so he can understand.\n\"Weh need ah steshon wagon\", Omran said more slowly. \"Do ya hov woun avilibul?\".\n\"Oh oh, a station wagon\", Jerry Raccoon acknowledged as Omran nodded 'yes'. \"I have one here you and the wife will like\".\n\"I weel kneow ef I lok et unce I see et\" (w/o the dialect - I will know if I like it once I see it), Omran replied as Jerry Raccoon took the mongooses to see the station wagon, which was a 1964 Pontiac Safari station wagon in white with a red interior.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pZ3kgb8hk\nOmran and Jiona were thrilled with the car, and for the cubs; Issa, Hali, Elea and Anasa, there was waaaayy more room than what their Vauxhall wagon back in Kenya has.\nAfter discussing it with Jiona, Omran Mongoose said to Jerry Raccoon, \"Weel teek et\".\nFrom Omran's voice tone and body language, Jerry Raccoon understood Omran saying, \"We'll take it\".\nOmran and Jiona had already made the exchange of an amount of Kenyan shillings for U. S. dollars...So once the paper work was done, rental deposit paid, and a brief period of instruction from Jerry Raccoon about the car, the mongooses were on their way. \nTo begin with, Omran was not use to the big powerful 389 cubic inch V8...Being use to how you have to give that Vauxhall the gas to make it go, Omran stepped on the accelerator, then >SCREEEEEEAACH< the rear tires spun, then Omran let off the gas.\n\"Oh Omran. I maybe should have told you\", Jerry Raccoon said. \"This car has more power than you're use to. Go easy for a while until you get use to it\".\n\"I theenk I weel goh easie, now dot I kneow\", Omran replied. \"Des cah DO hov da geet up en goh\".\nAnother issue Omran had to get use to was that in the U. S., traffic moves on the opposite side of the road...on the right...The fact that the station wagon they rented has the steering wheel on the left should have reminded him of that...But after a few misses of close calls of almost having a head on collision, Omran remembered to keep the car to the right lanes of the roads.\nOmran, Jiona and the cubs did not go extravagant on lodging. They were not of that 'jet set' crowd who quickly goes broke staying at a Ramada Inn day after day. During their stay in the Hanpton Roads area, they rented a room at a boarding house in downtown Newport News, with meals included, which was ran by a bear couple. Once settled in, they then visited places such as Virginia Beach, Ocean View Amusemant Park in Norfolk (it was the first time the cubs had ever been to an amusement park), as well as various other places of interest. One time they took a trip across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which has 19 kilometers (12 miles) of bridge roadway, a highrise on the Eastern Shore side, and two tunnels. It had just been completed and opened for service only weeks earlier. The family spent the rest of the day cruising around and stopping at places of interest on Eastern Shore, then spent that night in that big Pontiac station wagon parked near a beach on the ocean side. Come morning, the family spent some time at the beach before heading back across to Norfolk, then back to Newport News. \nThe Newport News Drydock and Shop Yard was quite an impressive sight. Then later in the day, the family noticed the Chesapeake and Ohio railway yard. Omran and Jiona decided to park the car just down the road from where the tobacco warehouses are to let the cubs watch the locomotives switch cars, which were mostly coal hoppers...However,these locomotives were different from the steam engines the family has always seen back in Kenya.\n\"Luke ot dot\", younger son Anasa exclaimed, pointing at a GP-9 on it's way to couple up to some cars. \"Wot konda eengine es dat?\". \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D35yz7i2GI\n\"How doose dat eengine evon goh?\", older son Hali asked, noticing the locomotive did not have a boiler, drive linkages and the large set of drive wheels typical of a steam engine.\n\"Et doon't evon hov ah coal tendah\", Exclaimed older sister Issa.\n\"Deen how do dae keep da fiah box goen?\", younger sister Elea asked.\n\"Dot eengine has a motah en it\", Omran said, upon noticing the sound of the diesel engine in the locomotive.\n\"Ya meen lok da wey trucks ond cahs hov a motah?\", Jiona asked her husband, Omran.\n\"Yees\", Omran replied. \"Ya con heah et evah time one ov dos eengines goh\".\nTheir first time seeing diesel locomotives in action was certainly fascinating to them, and it wasn't long before a Richmond bound passenger train cruised by on it's way out of downtown Newport News.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway#/media/File:Roger_Puta%27s_photo_of_Chesapeake_and_Ohio_E8A_4013_with_the_eastbound_Washington_section_of_the_Sportsman_in_Alexandria,_VA_in_August_1964._(25393425852).jpg\nJiona commented, \"Dat eengine lukes lok ah long von truck wit ah shot hoot en frunt\" (w/o the dialect - That engine looks like a long van truck with a short hood in front).\nAfter watching the trains a while, the family rode up the road to a seafood and ice cream drive in they've been noticing for the past few days. The drive in had a small dining room in which the family took up six of the eight seats it had. The 21 shrimp-n-fries basket looks good, so that's what everyone ordered. Jane porcupine, the waitress who originally waited on the family could not understand them due to the Kenyan dialect. But Fredia, an African-American Hyena who was the other waitress was able to understand the dialect of the mongooses. Thus the drive in's owner, Montgomery Penguin, assigned Freida to take their order. \nThe shrimp-n-fries baskets were really good, and Omran and Jiona even let the cubs get some ice cream for desert. It was getting late by the time everyone was finished eating, so the family headed back to the boarding house for the evening.\nAs has always been with most of the relatives, Omran and Jiona believed in attending church on Sundays. Early one Sunday morning, Leslie Otter, a long time tenant of the boarding house, told the family of a Fundamental Southern Baptist church in Hampton he use to attend years ago.\n\"When you get to New Market Plaza with those huge balls on the signs, turn right at the circle\", Leslie Otter explained. \"After you cross Bethel Road, look for it on your left. It sits back on a residentual street. You'll know it by a fleet of blue and white church busses they have...If you get to WGH radio station, you've gone too far\".\nOmran and Jiona thanked Leslie, then headed out with the cubs in that big Pontiac wagon to the church.\nUpon the family's arrival was the first time they realized how big the church was. Services were soon to begin as the mongooses made their way up the grand front steps. But once inside the front doors, they were in for a rude suprise. One of the church deacons, a very well groomed great dane, meet the mongooses in the vestibule adjacent to the auditorium.\nThe great dane did not offer to shake paws, but instead told Omran and Jiona mongoose, \"Sir. Mame. I'm sorry, but this church does not allow African species animals. There's First Shilo Baptist Church down the road, and they'd be glad to have you\".\nOmran and Jiona were appalled in disbelief over what they just heard...and coming from a church deacon no less...The cubs did not like it either.\nOn the way back out into the parking lot, Omran retorted, \"Dae call DEESE de house ov de Lawd? All weh got froam heah wass ta geet ahffeended\". \n\"Deese es moe lok da house ov de Deevil...Et es Saiton's house\", Issa exclaimed.\nJiona assured, \"Dae weel geet dae bod kamah sumedae. Et goh 'rond, et weel come 'rond\" (w/o the dialect - They will get their bad karma someday. It goes 'round, it will come 'round).\nThe family recalled seeing where First Shilo Baptist Church is, so it was there they went for Sunday morning service. There, the mongooses received a warm, friendly welcome. And not only were there African-American genets, meerkats, cheetahs, servals, aardwolves, mongooses, hyenas and such, but there were also European and American indigenous species such as; raccoons, otters bears, weasels, foxes a few dogs, a wolf, a family of wolverines, and there were even a family of lesser red pandas, a clouded leopard couple and an Oriental civet. The pastor there was Revren Jerome Holmes Aardwolf, who preached that day on \"pardon or judgement are received as to how you give them out to others\". And needless to say, Omran and Jiona's family made many friendship accquaintences there that Sunday morning.\nThere's no telling what the pastor of that church that turned the mongooses away preached that day...You probably don't wanna know.\nBack at the boarding house that afternoon, Leslie Otter was very disappointed to hear that the church he had attended years ago was now run by bigots.\nLeslie told Omran and Jiona, \"If I had known that, I would have recommended a different church...It has been years since I've been there, and I had no idea they have become that way\".\nIn the weeks to follow, the family would stop by places to get souvenirs to bring back to relatives back in Kenya... They even stopped in at G. C. Murphey's Department Store in the New Market Plaza (the plaza with the huge balls on the signs) to get those Barbie and Ken poodle dolls Jabet said she wanted, and the Mattel toy car that was made to go with the poodle dolls. G. C. Murphey's even had a restaurant area where the mongooses went for lunch that day. However, the best and most nostalgic stuff was found at the yard sales they went to. \nA few weeks later, the mongooses decided they would like to see Florida before it was time to go back to Kenya. So one morning, they checked out of the boarding house in Newport News and packed that big Pontiac wagon with the stuff they collected (by now they were glad they did not take that super sport convertible Jerry Raccoon was going to rent to them). The animals they had gotten to know at the boarding house wished the family a safe and happy trip, then they headed out to Florida. \nThere was no I-95 going all the way through back in those days. The way from Hampton Roads, Virginia to Florida was via U. S. Route 17 and U.S. Route 1. The beginning of that journey took them 8 kilometers (5 miles)across the James River Bridge...the original two lane bridge with it's narrow rickety roadway and it's steel pipe railings. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_River_Bridge#/media/File:James_River_Bridge_(circa_1960).jpg\nAlong the way, the family stopped for a day in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. That night, they slept in the car parked near the beach, then continued on their way.\nAlthough that Pontiac wagon was a very nice car, Omran did notice one disadvantage about it...It did not get anywhere near the fuel economy his Vauxhall back home got...But of course, in those days, gasoline was also cheaper in the U. S. than in many parts of Africa.\nAt a gas station on Route 17 in Georgia, the family stopped in to fuel up the car. Upon driving over the airline that rings the bell in the station as they pulled up to the pumps, a young male opossum came out and asked, \"Will it be regular or Ethel, Sir?\".\n\"Reeglah woot beh aw-kae\", Omran answered.\n\"I cain't understand you there\", the opossum replied.\n\"Reeglah es goot. Reeglah. Ond feil et all da wah, pleese\", Omran said.\nThe opossum, sensing the mongooses were not from the U. S., retorted, \"If y'all gonna come to this country, why don'tcha learn to speak right?\".\n\"Hey, Clint! That was uncalled for!\", a young male raccoon co-worker called out.\n\"I cain't help it, Jim! This mongoose is mumblin' at me!\", Clint Opossum called out to Jimmy Raccoon. \n\"That's still no way to be treatin' a customer!\", Jimmy Raccoon retorted to Clint while collecting from a fox for fill-up.\nJimmy Raccoon briefly paused, and said to the fox, \"Have a good, Sir. Thank you for stopping by\", just before he drove away.\nThen Jimmy Raccoon came over to lecture Clint Opossum, which began going into an argument.\nOmran Mongoose was about ready to drive off and stop at another station down the road...Omran also felt like getting out of the car and popping that opossum in the nose, but Omran didn't want a deportation cutting the vacation short.\nJimmy Raccoon finally sent Clint Opossum away from the Mongoose Family's car.\n\"I apologize for all of this.\", Jimmy Raccoon said to the mongooses, \"How can I help you?\".\n\"Weel, I woot lok ta geet ah feil-up ov reeglah\", Omran answered the raccoon.\n\"Fill-up of regular?\", Jimmy Raccoon asked to be sure he heard Omran Mongoose correctly.\n\"Yees please\", Omran said.\nAs Jimmy Raccoon was pumping the gas, another motorist pulled in, which would keep Clint Opossum occupied from making 'any comments out of the peanut gallery'. \nThe car took a bit over 20 gallons.\n\"Clean your windshield and check your oil, Sir?\", Jimmy Raccoon asked.\n\"Naw. All dat es goot, theink ya\", Omran said.\n\"That will be four dollars and eighty two cents\", Jimmy Raccoon said.\nAs Omran Mongoose paid Jimmy Raccoon, Jimmy again apologized for the actions of his opossum co-worker and thanked the mongooses for stopping by...The family was again on their way. \nThe family finally entered Florida on the Route 17 bridge over the St. Mary's river. \nhttps://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT9g_DaNZN3IABDJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0NTg2bDUxBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjI5NDRfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=st+marys+river+bridge+florida&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=10&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.jacksonville.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimagecache%2Fsuperphoto%2F12131349.jpg&action=click\nA short way into Florida, they stopped in at a welcome center that was giving away free cups of orange juice...the cubs especially liked the orange juice.\nAs the family continued along route 17 through Duval County in route toward Jacksonville, they noticed railroad tracks ran parallel off to the right from Route 17...They had also noticed a railway bridge off to the right back when they crossed the St. Mary's River. Eventually, a passenger train passed them, which had Seaboard Coast Line Railway markings.\nhttps://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVywWCqNZdbIAkipXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0NTg2bDUxBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjI5NDRfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=seaboard+coast+line+railroad&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=11&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.american-rails.com%2Fimages%2FSCLFALE7S.jpg&action=click\n\"Dot's anothah won ov dos eengines weet ah motah en et\", Hali said as the train went on past.\nThe Mongoose Family got lost for a while going through Jacksonville.\nAt some intersections where they had to wait on a traffic light, an African-American species animal, sometimes two or more, such as civets, mongooses, hyenas, meerkats, servals, etc, who were giving out pamphlets would approach the car and offer to shake paws with Omran and Jiona.\nThey would mention things like, \"Heeeyyy, Bros. Remember. We all have a dream\" or \"Ay, Brothah. Ay, Sistah. Y-all keepin' the faith?\" \n\"Don't forget, baby. A whisper ain't got no voice\", a meerkat said at one of those intersections as he gave Omran a pamphlet titled, 'We shall not be judged by the species of our fur, but by the content of our character'.\n Youngest cub Anasa spoke up, \"Dea aein't naw bebies weet ous...Weh ah coubs\".\n\"Hey, cute\", the meerkat chuckled.\nA female genet with her two cubs, a male and a younger female, approached the car and gave out several pamphlets to Omran and Jiona's cubs.\n\"Aww, your cubs are so adorable\", the mother genet complimented as her two cubs and the mongoose cubs waved to each other and began conversation.\nOmran and Jiona thanked the genet mother for the compliment. Then there were horns of cars behind blowing.\nSomeone called out, \"Hey Latisha! The light's green! Let them go, girl!\".\n\"Hey y-all. See ya\", the genet mother bided.\n\"Bein noce tauken ta ya\" (w/o the dialect - Been nice talking to you), Jiona replied as Omran put the car in drive and continued on.\nOmran eventually said to Jiona as he placed the pamphlet on the dashboard of the car, \"Dae sem friendly ehnouf...Boot I doun't knaw wat theese es abeout\".\n\"I doun't knaw eithah\", Jiona replied as the family continued riding along the street.\nJiona noticed a political cartoon in one the pamphlets of a meerkat climbing a latter of success and telling a nearby golden retriever, \"What do you mean 'not so fast'?\".\nIt was agreed between Omran and Jiona to collect the pamphlets from the cubs until they can read through them and be sure the material content was okay for them. \nMost of those animals such as foxes, bears, raccoons, coyotes dogs, otters, wolves, etc seemed to be ignoring the Momgoose Family riding around in that big, brand new, Pontiac station wagon. However, there were some animals such as foxes, bears, raccoons, coyotes dogs, otters, wolves, etc who were standing for the cause along with the African-American animals. \nAt another traffic light, a jackal and a genet approached the car and offered the usual friendly paw shake and a pamphlet.\n\"We gotta stand strong for the cause, Brothah\", The jackal proclaimed.\nOmran finally asked, \"Efra-one cooms ta ah cah. Wat es des abeout?\".\n\"Hey, Homer. I cain't understand the first word dis cat's sayin'\", The jackal told the genet.\n\"Weh not cats. Weh Mongooses\", older son Hali called out from the back seat of the car.\nHomer Genet told the jackal, \"Dis bro say he don't know why everyone wana rap with them\".\nThe jackal thought on that a few seconds, then took notice of the nice big car.\n\"You ain't one-a-doze doccca Thomas ain'tcha?\", the jackal asked Omran.\n\"I es not ah doctah ov dae modacine\", Omran assured the jackal. \"I nevah bein tah mod scoul en meh lofe\".\n\"Yo, hold up, Tyrone\", Homer Genet said to the jackal.\n\"Sir\", Homer Genet addressed Omran Mongoose. \"Y-all ain't from dis country is you? \n\"Naw. Weh not. Weh ah froam Keenya\", Omran answered.\n\"Weh ah heah on vahcation\", Jiona added.\n\"Oh...Okay\", Homer Genet replied.\nWhen the light turned green, Omran Mongoose told Homer Genet and Tyrone Jackal, \"Deh lot es green. Weh gotta goh neow\".\n\"Enjoy y-all's stay\", Homer Genet called out as the car pulled away.\n\"Y-all be cool\", Tyrone Jackal called out.\nThe mongoose family still was making no progress finding their way around Jacksonville. \n\"Deese Jockseenveil es whass din drivin en Naihobi\" (w/o the dialect - This Jacksonville is worse than driving in Nairobi), Omran mentioned upon pulling up to a complicated intersection and not knowing which way was the right way to turn.\nJiona suggested stopping at a convenience store and getting a Jacksonville map. So the next convenience store that came into view, they pulled in. The cubs wanted to get some candy, so everyone came into the store.\nWhile Omran was picking out a map, and Jiona was with the cubs picking out candy, two other mongooses greeted Omran and introduced themselves as Isaac and Floyd.\n\"Ya goin' to the march, Brother?\", Floyd Mongoose asked Omran Mongoose. \n\"I dah not knaw abeout des motch ya speek ov\", Omran replied as Jiona and the cubs approached.\n\"You don't know? The Civil Rights march, Baby\", Isaac Mongoose exclaimed.\n\"Weel...I om not eh bebie. I om ah grawn up Mongoose lok YAW awh\", Omran corrected Isaac.\n\"Whaaat?...You all talk funny\", Isaac Mongoose said.\n\"Wait a minute, Isaac\", said Floyd and then asked Omran, \"You from somewhere else?...not here in America\".\n\"Weh froam Keenya\", Omran replied. \n\"Deese es da seecon time weh was aust dat. Wat es dis abeout?\", Jiona asked.\nThe two African-American mongooses, Isaac and Floyd, explained the Civil Rights Movement that was going on at that time. Also at that time, not far south of Jacksonville, a bold lion who was a Civil Rights leader was visiting St. Augustine, Marvin Kingsley Lion.\nOmran then told Isaac and Floyd, \"Weh ah not heah en Ameeikah fah dat popess. Weh coom heah on vahcation\". \n\"Weh ah free ween da Briteesh gehv Keenya et's indopondence\", Jiona added.\n\"OH LAWWWD! HA HA HA HA HA! Why da British wanna free anyone!?\" Isaac laughed.\n\"Yo, Isaac. Everything's cool, Bro\", said Floyd.\nIsaac and Floyd then expressed wishes to the family for a safe trip and a good time. After the family and the two African-American mongooses bid a friendly farewell, Omran chose the map they needed, everyone got snacks and drinks, and were on their way. \nWith the map, the family finally found their way out of Jacksonville, and was again travelling where they intended to go, and not a day too soon. That day the Meerkat Family was in Jacksonville was on June the 6th, and on June 7th, a tropical depression came through the Jacksonville area from across the state bringing some bad weather...The meerkats just did miss it by one day. \nBecause it was already getting into the month June, the Florida heat was about like that of the Kenyan temperatures the family has always known. With a little fumbling and trying out different knobs, Omran was finally able to figure out how to operate the car's A/C...something very few of the cars in Kenya had. With the windows up and the A/C on, riding in that spacious, heavy, smooth riding Pontiac wagon was riding in comfort...And some pretty good tunes could be found on the radio too. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7RLe-m2zA\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzjfGF6MiU\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUVicdW7Ew\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC048zJHec8\nThe cub had a good laugh from that last song.\n\nWhen the family was having breakfast at a cozy little restaurant in Titusville early in the morning of June the 8th, they heard from some of the other customers that the first Gemini rocket (with no animal occupants) was going to be test launched later that morning. None of the family had ever seen a rocket go up before, and from Titusville everyone would get a good view of the launch. The family stayed around Titusville that morning and listened to reports about the launch preparations on the car radio. And sure enough, a few hours later, at 11:00 am, Gemini one was launched.\nhttps://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8o5nEadZOA0AZR.JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2NsawRiY2sDMDd0cHE5OWNwb3NyZCUyNmIlM0QzJTI2cyUzRDBvBGNzcmNwdmlkAzF4b1R0VFk1TGpFRDl6cEtXWnh6YlFDZ09UY3VOZ0FBQUFDQlZfbXUEZnIDeWZwLXQEZnIyA3NhLWdwBGdwcmlkA182YVRPY0NEU1UyaTg2QlQ3QWpUMkEEbXRlc3RpZANJTkZSQSUzREI0MjkyBG5fc3VnZwMwBG9yaWdpbgNpbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMzNgRxdWVyeQNnZW1pbmkgMSBsYXVuY2ggdmlldyBmcm9tIHRpdHVzdmlsbGUEdF9zdG1wAzE1MDQxMjE2MDgEdnRlc3RpZANudWxs?gprid=_6aTOcCDSU2i86BT7AjT2A&pvid=1xoTtTY5LjED9zpKWZxzbQCgOTcuNgAAAACBV_mu&p=gemini+1+launch+view+from+titusville&fr=yfp-t&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt#id=49&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F38%2Ffd%2F6a%2F38fd6aeffa355a59f2d8bb578ca611f0.jpg&action=click\n\"Dea et es!\", Omran, being the first to see it, pointed it out.\nhttps://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8o.kFKdZy0oA6AaJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2NsawRiY2sDMDd0cHE5OWNwb3NyZCUyNmIlM0QzJTI2cyUzRDBvBGNzcmNwdmlkAzFmbVBhelk1TGpFRDl6cEtXWnh6YlFBc09UY3VOZ0FBQUFDeXVxeDUEZnIDeWZwLXQEZnIyA3NhLWdwBGdwcmlkA2YxdE44OFgxU1VhWlJORVFrQXpFbEEEbXRlc3RpZANJTkZSQSUzREI0MjkyBG5fc3VnZwMwBG9yaWdpbgNpbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMyNgRxdWVyeQNnZW1pbmkgMSBsYXVuY2ggdGl0dXN2aWxsZQR0X3N0bXADMTUwNDEyMjA2MgR2dGVzdGlkA251bGw-?gprid=f1tN88X1SUaZRNEQkAzElA&pvid=1fmPazY5LjED9zpKWZxzbQAsOTcuNgAAAACyuqx5&p=gemini+1+launch+titusville&fr=yfp-t&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt#id=63&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fspacerockethistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F02%2FGemini-Launch.jpg&action=click\nIt was a success and the cubs were very excited to see their first rocket launch as Gemini one ascended higher and higher with the engine's big blaze of fire behind it. \n\"DA ROCKEET! DA ROCKEET!\", older son Hali gleefully proclaimed.\n\"WOW!\", said younger son Anasa.\n\"Es sah cool!\", older daughter Issa said.\n\"Et es\", younger daughter Elea added. \"Lok ot et goh\".\nComments and expressions of awe from other animals watching the launch could also be heard.\n\"Dot es ah veh-ee grond site\", Jiona said as she was taking pictures.\nhttps://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8qDgEKdZsA4AmGWJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2NsawRiY2sDMDd0cHE5OWNwb3NyZCUyNmIlM0QzJTI2cyUzRDBvBGNzcmNwdmlkA2ZDbUcyVFk1TGpFRDl6cEtXWnh6YlFJTU9UY3VOZ0FBQUFCNVBoN3AEZnIDeWZwLXQEZnIyA3NhLWdwBGdwcmlkA2V2UkVOZXZBVEEyaVVFRTVGbGd0NEEEbXRlc3RpZANJTkZSQSUzREI0MjkyBG5fc3VnZwMwBG9yaWdpbgNpbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMzOARxdWVyeQNnZW1pbmkgb25lIGxhdW5jaCB2aWV3IGZyb20gdGl0dXN2aWxsZQR0X3N0bXADMTUwNDEyMTE5NAR2dGVzdGlkA251bGw-?gprid=evRENevATA2iUEE5Flgt4A&pvid=fCmG2TY5LjED9zpKWZxzbQIMOTcuNgAAAAB5Ph7p&p=gemini+one+launch+view+from+titusville&fr=yfp-t&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt#id=29&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cdn.tripadvisor.com%2Fmedia%2Fphoto-s%2F0a%2F44%2F1d%2Fa8%2Frocket-launch.jpg&action=click\nNeedless to say, Omran and Jiona took turns getting lots of pictures of Gemini one until it was out of range of their camera...They knew those pictures were going to be the most impressive off all to the relatives back home. \n\nOther places the family visited in Florida were Tampa, St. Petersburg, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami (Back in 1964, Miami was not the dangerous, high crime center it would eventually become 20 to 25 years later)...At one point, they even drove out to Key West and back. During that time, the family seldom checked in at a motel. There was plenty of room in that spacious Pontiac station wagon, and plenty of campsites and beachside parking to sleep for the night.\nThis was also about the time the all new Ford Mustangs were coming out on the roads. \nEveryone thought those were such cool cars, and the cubs; Issa, Hali, Elea and Anasa even made a contest among themselves of counting who can be first spotting the most Ford Mustangs. \nOnce in a while, Omran and Jiona would hear, \"Ah seh ah Moostong!\".\n\"I sah et fost\".\n\"Naw ya deed not. I deed\". \nToward the end of June, the vacation had eventually drawn to a close. On the family's last day in the U. S., they rode back up to Tampa where they were to turn the station wagon back in at the Tampa Airport Hertz car rental location. There were still a few hours before they had to catch their flight back home, and they had noticed the last time they were in Tampa, The Meeting House Restaurant on the corner of Howard and Bristol Avenue. That is where the family had a late lunch, then afterwards, some home made ice cream the restaurant was well known for which was really good.\nA few hours later, Omran and Jiona turned the car back in, and shortly thereafter the family boarded their flight back to Kenya.\nOnce they were back home, there were lots photos to show, and lots of stories to tell to the relatives. And there were souvenirs and nostalgic stuff brought back for everyone...And you should have seen how happy Jabet was when she was presented with her Barbie and Ken poodle dolls and the Mattel toy car to go with them.\n...Occasionally, there would be a reference for laughs made from time to time about, \"Da gold on de streets en Ameeikah\". \n \nAs the cubs would mature in age, Makori and Aluna allowed them to travel to the Kikuyu village to visit relatives who resided there. As for the cubs who were not yet old enough to be driving the family car, it was a bit far to be walking...But the cubs did have bicycles, which even by bicycle it was a pretty good haul out to there and back.\nEarly December of 1964, Kanja wanted to visit Uncle Omran and Aunt Jiona, Uncle Tambo and Aunt Sadika and the cousins at the Kikuyu village. This was a couple of weeks before Kanja Mongoose was to turn 12 years of age. In December of 1964, Moyo was still 10 years of age. Makori and Aluna gave to OK for Kanja to go to the village... However, because of Kanja being mentally impaired, Mom and Dad always required older siblings to accompany him to keep him safe out on the highway, and to keep him out of trouble at the village. Older brother Ruguru, about to turn 18 on January 15th a month and a half away, and older sister Chanya, then age 15, were to accompany Kanja that day. Both older siblings were old enough to use the family car to drive there, but Dad needed the car that day to take a trip to town to see a realtor about a linsang couple who wanted to make a down payment on one of the investment properties...And the old truck that use to be used years ago to haul debt delinquent storage unit and warehouse contents from liquidation auctions needed brake work. Oldest siblings Chege, Makena and Kioni had vehicles, but they were already married, had their own places, and the two oldest siblings and their spouses were already raising cubs, with Chede's oldest daughter already age 13, and oldest son already age 11...So...It looked like Ruguru, Chanya and Kanja would be riding the bicycles out to the village, and that it was. During the ride there, Kanja's bike had to have the helper wheels because he had still not yet developed the skill to keep a bicycle balanced without falling over. \nAt the village, the relatives were delighted to welcome Ruguru, Chanya and Kanja. And Kanja enjoyed playing with the young cubs his age. During their visit, Jamal Genet, a resident of the village, came riding up the long, dirt lane leading to the village on a Honda dirt bike with a small bundle of eight foot long, 2\"x4\" lumber he had bought from a local sawmill, which he had tied across the back of the bike...The wide load of boards would cause the overloaded dirt bike to teeter-totter side to side as Jamal Genet had to struggle while riding at a slow pace to keep the bike upright.\n\"LOOK!\", Kanja Mongoose exclaimed with excitement. \"Jomal es mekin ah aeiplane wif es mootah cycle!\"\nRealizing that to Kanja, the 2\"x4\"s looked like 'airplane wings' on Jamal's dirt bike, Ruguru and Chanya explained to Kanja that Jamal Genet was hauling a load of lumber to build something with, and that his dirt bike was all he had to carry it on. \n\"I got enothah laud heah ought laust\" (w/o the dialect - I got another load here at last), Jamal Genet said as he shut down the bike, then got off and greeted Ruguru, Chanya and Kanja.\nJamal did not have to put the bike's kickstand down...Four feet of lumber overhanging on each side did a pretty good job of stopping it from falling over. When Ruguru told Jamal that Kanja thought the lumber was airplane wings on the bike, Jamal thought that was cute as he let out with a pretty good chuckle. Jamal then led the three mongoose siblings to an area of the village where he showed them a structure being built that was not any larger than a two car garage. It was so far, it was a wood deck supported off the ground by rocks used as footing piers, and it already had most of the wall framing erected.\n\"Dees gonta beh da hoose fah meh an meh wife. An et gonta beh ah modreen beilt hoose\", Jamal said, referring to how he was using modern building materials and modern construction methods. \n\"Elewa gonta hov awh cub soon\", Jamal added, followed by congratulations from Ruguru and Chanya...and then a slightly delayed congratulation from Kanja. \nOf course, at one point during the visit, Chief Abasi Kalu Mongoose, knowing Kanja's 12th birthday will be the 15th of that month, began discussing the prospect with Kanja about getting \"circumcised like a true Kikuyu\"...and it was a good thing Ruguru and Chanya were with Kanja that day. Kanja absolutely had not the foggiest clue of what circumcision even was, in spite of being in the company of mongooses, genets and civets who were circumcised. Ruguru and Chanya noticed that their younger brother was beginning to get talked into being circumcised by the village chief when the day comes a couple of weeks later when he turns 12 years of age. When the conversation Abasi Mongoose had with Kanja was finished, Ruguru and Chanya had their own talk with Kanja.\nOlder sister Chanya asked Kanja, \"Kanja. Je, unafahamu ni tohara?\" (Kanja. Do you know what is circumcision?).\n\"Uhh...Sijui\" (Uhhh...I don't know), Kanja answered.\nOlder brother Ruguru asked Kanja, \"Do you knoo wah da malls heia haf dare pee-pees shoween all de time?\"\n\"Meh theenk soh\", said Kanja. \"Ah dae stickin dae pee-pees ought ot us?...Soh dae pee-pees con look ot us\".\n\"Augh!\", Chanya let out, as she could not believe what she just heard.\nThis conversation was also outside, within earshot of some of the villagers who began giggling and chuckling at the answer Kanja just gave his older brother.\nChanya then explained to Kanja what circumcision is, what is done during the procedure and how a penis is after it is done.\n\"Do you want ya pee-pee ta haf no mah sheef fo heem ta hide en?\", Ruguru asked Kanja.\nAnd the answer was loud and clear.\n\"HAPANA!\" (NO!), Kanja loudly exclaimed as he tucked his tail between his legs and covered his genital area with both paws.\n\"LEEF MEH PEE-PEE ELONE! LEEF MEH PEE-PEE ELONE!\", Kanja cried out. \"TUUACHE!\" (LEAVE IT ALONE!).\nBy now, many of the villagers came out of their mud walled thatch huts, plank board shacks and corrugated tin houses to find out what was going on, then could not help giggling, chuckling and laughing at Kanja's display of drama.\n\"LEEF MEH PEE-PEE ELONE!\", Kanja continued to cry out with his tail tucked and his paws over his genital area.\nEven Chief Abasi Mongoose, although disappointed Kanja will now not be circumcised, had to make an effort to hold back from giggling...But Chief Abasi broke out giggling then laughing...Even Chanya and Ruguru were laughing by now.\nAfter Chanya and Ruguru got Kanja calmed down, Chief Abasi said to Kanja, \"Kanja. Ef ya doon't want ta beh socoomsized, den we well not do et...Okee?\" \n\"Okeeeeee\", Kanja timidly replied, assured it was not going to be done to him.\nBack home, Dad, Mom, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet got a good laugh when Chanya and Ruguru explained how the visit to the village went that day...One thing was for sure. Kanja Jais Mongoose may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but he made it very clear he does NOT want to be circumcised. \n\n\nOn Saturday, April 17, 1966, exactly two weeks before Moyo's 12th birthday, Moyo took a bicycle ride out to visit relatives in the Kikuyu village. At the village, there was the usual fellowship, conversation and good times between Moyo, his Uncle Omran Jais Mongoose (Makori's youngest brother), Aunt Jiona (Omran's wife) and cousins Issa (f), Hali (m), Elea (f) and Anasa (m). And there was also Aunt Sadika on Mom's side of the family, who married Tambo Magoro Mongoose (a Kikuyu) and resided in the village where they raised their sons and daughters, Cousin Zahur (m), Cousin Wenda (f) and Cousin Ayah (f).\nDuring this particular visit, the village leader, Chief Abasi Kalu Mongoose, was aware that Moyo would become 12 years of age two weeks after that day. Knowing this, Chief Abasi Mongoose invited Moyo to take a walk with him to discuss some things.\nDuring the walk, Chief Abasi mentioned to Moyo, \"Wewe hivi karibuni kuingia utu uzima\" (You will soon enter adulthood).\nMoyo replied, \"Ndiyo\" (Yes).\n\"Wewe ni sehemu Kikuyu katika jamaa ya baba yako\" (You are part Kikuyu in your father's family), Abasi Mongoose added.\n\"Ndiyo, mimi ni\" (Yes, I am), Moyo further replied.\n\"Je kuchukuliwa akiwa ametahiriwa?\" (Have you considered being circumcised?), the Chief asked.\nMoyo simply replied, \"Sitaki kufanya hivyo\" (I do not want to do it).\nAbasi Mongoose mentioned, \"Baada ya mwaka wako kumi na mbili ina siku za nyuma, wewe huru nafasi hiyo\" (After your ten have two years has past, you loose that opportunity).\nMoyo still replied, \"Sitaki kufanya hivyo\".\nThe thought of 'little pee-pee' no longer having it's sheath to hide it's head in and cover up in did not appeal to Moyo in any way, shape or form...Kikuyu custom or no Kikuyu custom. \nAfter talking with Moyo a while longer, Chief Abasi Mongoose became thoroughly convinced that Moyo was adamant he did not want to be circumcised, so Abasi accepted Moyo's decision in the matter and no longer pushed the issue. \nAfter Abasi and Moyo walked back to the village, Cousin Hali, who by then was 16, asked Moyo, \"Da cheef tak to you 'baut dae pee-pee sheeth theeng?\"\n\"Yees e did\", Moyo answered his cousin. \"Ya knah meh boafdae es Mae fost\" (w/o the dialect - You know my birthday is May 1st).\n\"Two weeks fom todae...Wat deed you tell to dae cheef?\", Hali then asked.\n\"I seid no\", said Moyo. \"I lok meh pee-pee da weh et es\".\nHali then mentioned to Moyo, \"I hof to oddmit, seense dae coot meh sheef ween I wass tweeov, I meesed hoavin et dare...Meh pee-pee doas not feel de som wit-ought et\".\nAs Moyo and his family had always noticed, of those relatives who reside in the village, Aunt Sadika, like her parents and siblings in Mom's family, and Uncle Omran, like his grand-parents, parents and siblings in Dad's family, were never circumcised...Both had grown up away from any tribal village, and were already adults and expecting their first cubs by the time they moved to the Kikuyu village...And already as adults, the ceremony would not count as fulfilling the tribal custom anyway. \n\nBack in the earlier years, there had been those visits to the village when an older sibling was about to turn 12 years of age. And like before their younger brother Moyo, the village chief had that same discussion with the older siblings. And like before their younger brother Moyo, they too had declined to have it done.\nAnd in early September of 1967, the chief approached Jomo about it...and approached Jabet about it in August of 1969, and both of their answers were the same...\"Sitaki kufanya hivyo\" (I do not want to do it). \n \nThese were some of the African pop hit songs of that 1950s - 1960 time era...Jean Bosco Mwenda was popular for a while there in Kenya in the 1950s.\nThe family had an old, 1933, Philco model 38, battery powered, farm radio before the days the home had electrical service\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQR2HTwP8Y\nJean Bosco Mwenda - Mama na Mwana \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJwwRFZtUc\n\nLiwa Ya Liongue Arsène (Franco) - Franco & L'O.K. Jazz \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kml06wz1lLs\n\nMama Kilio \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YkGInD0MoA\n\nTrio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeD4uB0-uw\n\nNabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1a_tZywUM\n\nKosilika Te Doudou / Sengola (Kabaselé) - African Jazz\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgcDHvtOVo\n\nMasanga ( instrumental ) - Jean Bosco Mwenda \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkJFfn6avSo\n\nSisi Wakenya...\n...Coincidentally, \"kuja hapa\" is said at 0:30, 1:37 & 2:41...LOL. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2RCJ93sk\nIn fact, a few times during the time Kanja, Moyo and Jomo were cubs, they would hear this song on the radio and hear those lyrics, \"kuja hapa\".\nThe cubs would ask Aluna, \"Mamma! Deet Great Coozin Bahassa mek dat song?!\".\nThe cubs had already heard of the time two generations ago, on Mom's side of the family, when their Grand Dad Nangwaya had flogged his Cousin Barasa with a piece of woody vine for calling Grand Ma Saura Binturong a kuja hapa. \nOf course little Kanja would jump around with excitement, proclaiming, \"Coozin Bahasa song! Coozin Bahasa song!\"\nMamma would always assure her three youngest male cubs, \"Coozin Bahasa hat nauthin' ta do weet writin' dat song\".\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2RCJ93sk\n\nRumba Kwetu\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJrt6CFxZc\n\nOK Jazz & Franco - Musica Tellema (1957)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZ9GU_HxpI\n\nNaweli boboto\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpIpgZYcpg\n\nIlamo Marie (Franco) - Franco & L'O.K. Jazz 27-7-1959 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MAMBsCWKA\n\nFomFom - ET Mensah & HIs Tempos Band Ghana 1950's High Life \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbgnAJ-op5k\n\nK Rhino Boys Pene Langu Swahili Dance Columbia EO 460 Kenya 78 rpm \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAwogsRlQ4U\n\nWitts & Party Columbia EO 335 Oriti Jahera Kenya 78 rpm\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmPDMD_g9Po\n\nChura We\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBqF7ZiZ1so\n\nMawonso Mpamba (Déchaud) - African Jazz 1960\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4l3Ne3nSko\n\nJipakieni Katika Meli \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNNOVk1pvc\n\nMazowea\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyNyVzkAeY\n\nNdege Wote Wameruka \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqgqutMLtMc\n\nSUGARBUSH by Josef Marais, recorded in 1946 South African Folk Song \nThis was a favorite of the oldest siblings, Chege (age 11 in 1946) and Makena (age 7 in 1946), when they were little cubs...Kioni was only age 2 when this song was released...In fact, when that song played, Chege and Makena would dance around and clap their paws with the clapping in that song;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg8BNliL3fc\n\nKAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953\nThis song use to give Ruguru nightmares when he was age 6 whenever it played on the radio during the night at the time it was released; \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEBzhBLdHc\n\n\n@moyomongooseandfamily\nHere is the part back in the early 1900s...Back in that day and time, what is known today as Kenya was known then as British East Africa;\nProfile\nIt is December 1915, in what is to be known a generation later as Trukana County of Rift Valley Province in northwest Kenya, that Nangwaya Tatazu Mongoose and his wife, Saura Tatazu Binturong (formally Saura Whan Binturong), are raising a family of three cubs;\nTwo daughters, Dalila who recently turned age 7, and Shani who turned age 5 a month earlier, and a son Jaramogi who is age 2 years, 6 months.\nAlthough the cubs are 50% binturong / 50% African banded mongoose, they still go by the last name of Mongoose.\nNangwaya Mongoose and his family are Pokot (Pakoot) by tribal identity. A few other African banded mongooses in the region, including some in-laws of the family, as well as some related species animals, are Kikuyu by tribal identity...And although the national identity for all animals was considered by the U.K. in the year 1915 as British, they claimed for themselves \"Kenyan\" as that identity.\nDuring the early years of Nangwaya and Saura's marriage, home was a one room hut with walls made from dead tree branches and mud with a thatch roof, which was on the edge of a Pokot tribal village.\nAbout the time Nangwaya and Saura were married 9 years earlier (year 1906), some members of Nangwaya Mongoose's family would refer to Saura Binturong as a \"kuja hapa\", Swahili for 'a come here', implying that her family was from Asia (northern Bangladesh to be exact) and not from Kenya.\nBut other members of Nangwaya Mongoose's family, especially Nangwaya, got on to those family members who were referring to Saura Binturong as a \"kuja hapa\" and got that stopped in a timely manner...However, back in 1906, shortly before Nangwaya and Saura were married, Nangwaya had to threaten to \"opon da con a whup-oss\" (open a can of whip-ass) on his cousin Barasa over calling Saura Binturong a \"kuja hapa\". But Cousin Barasa did not heed Nangwaya's warning until Nangwaya finally cut a four foot piece of thick climbing vine off of a tree, then found Barasa, then flogged the living Hell out of Barasa with that piece of thick vine...and at one point, chasing after Barasa and continuing to flog him as he ran from Nangwaya. When Nangwaya Mongoose got done, Barasa was one hurting mongoose with flogging whelps all over him...That was just the attitude adjustment Barasa Mongoose needed to quit calling his cousin Nangwaya's then future wife to be a \"kuja hapa\". \nSince that day and time, Saura Binturong and her family are accepted as family by Nangwaya Mongoose's family. \"Kuja hapa\" had long give way to \"Hakuna Matata\" (no worries). \n\nEnglish is the official language spoken in Kenya, which is also spoken by the family, although some Swahili is heard on occasion in the Mongoose Family's conversations. \n\nBTW, Nangwaya and Saura are expecting a new arrival who Saura is pregnant with as they enter the year 1916.\nAccording to both Pokot and Kikuyu tribal customs, male and female circumcisions are ceremonially preformed on cubs at age 12...However, Nangwaya Mongoose and his siblings were born and raised in a remote rural area far away from any village, and by the time Nangwaya's family relocated near a village, Nangwaya Mongoose and his siblings were already becoming adults...thus Nangwaya as well as his siblings were never circumcised.\nNangwaya, recalling how he and his siblings were ostracized by many of the villagers over not being circumcised, discussed the matter with his wife, Saura Binturong, about the cubs undergoing the custom of circumcision when they reach age 12...But Saura, being from a country that never even heard of circumcision back in that day and time, wouldn't hear of it. So especially considering that both parents themselves were not circumcised, it was agreed between Nangwaya and Saura that Dalila, Shani, Jaramogi and the cub on the way would not be circumcised either...That's a decision the cubs can make for themselves when they become adults. \nAt some point in time, Nangwaya and Suara moved with the cubs to not very far north of the city of Eldoret, where Nangwaya got work as a seasonal farm worker...thus the family were no longer residing in the Pokot village...Nor were they any longer residing in Turkana County...Eldoret is about 800 kilometers (500 miles) to the south of the local homeland, and although Nangwaya and Suara did not have a car, they were able to get a ride to Eldoret with a friend who had an old, beat up, stake side truck. \n\nThis is also a day and time the family witnessed modern innovations being bought into the country by the British such as railroads, electrical power and decent hard clay gravel roads.\n\nThe first world war is also going on at this time. The Mongoose Family, and friends who they know, haven't seen any fighting in their homeland. But they have heard of fighting going on in the countries north of them. \t\n\n\nThese were songs that were around when Nangwaya Mongoose and Saura Binturong were raising; Dalila (12-19-1908 f), Shani (11-14-1910 f), Jaramogi (1-21-1913 m), Aluna (6-30-1916 f), Ohon (7-10-1917 m), Lusala (9-27-1918 m) and Sadika (12-23-1920 f).\nThe family didn't have a radio, but they have occasionally been in places that either had a radio or a cylindrical record Phonograph;\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkVCvqR4aE \n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptAlF8g5_Q\n\nBoire Comma Mo Boire - African Popular Music In 78 RPM \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPRidQFhTL8\n\nOhse Nta Ma Qua (Highlife) (Congo)\nWhen Nangwaya and Saura's youngest cub, Sadika (one of Moyo's aunts), was still little, she use to enjoy dancing up a jig to this song;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPXAMB2lsh0&index=16&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YIrXc6HpdlRsNktualuqLs\n\nMasanga (Swahilli) (Belgian Congo)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXlBjneDwA\n\nMwanangu Lala (Swahilli Lullaby) (Kenya)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALWIlf_Sc0\n\nMbira music master piece Live \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUEhjuH4\n\nMusic based on The System of the Mbira\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsG2W7Z_d0\n\nKahira (Good Fortune) - African Popular Music In 78 RPM\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcgZCQsVLTg\n\nJubillee Anthem - African Popular Music In 78 RPM \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM8RWW9-YdU&index=20&list=PLI9kUvfRLQWR3wN_xSzCS1bN994Jw2p6q\n\nMiyelo Bebe (Shangaan Dance) - African Popular Music In 78 RPM \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISHObPDji4\n\nMbiriviri - Simon Mashoko \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyp1KbY6R7E\n\nAici Na Wawee - African Popular Music In 78 RPM\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhdy6hjFDos\n\nAmanxilla - African Popular Music In 78 RPM\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDHQX6EPyo\n\nNapesi Yo Mbongo (Rumba Lingala) - African Popular Music In 78 RPM \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZKBfU2tLBI\n\nIbani (Nigeria) - BARA SANABO BARA by Richard Abe Brown Band 1930s \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NM_QT9sEQ\n\nBaba Oni Taxi - J.O. Oyesiku\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREw3mAptSM\n\nDue to the British occupation of the country at that time, European music would also be played by local radio stations, or played on a cylindrical record phonograph in places such as stores and cafe's;\nPalais de danse / Georgi Vintilescu 1912 TWO-STEP aus DAS AUTOLIEBCHEN 98 Jahre alte Schellackplatte \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q_9hfb73o \n\nharry fay everybody's doing it 1912, great classic ragtime song - \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iz9lB3feKM\n\nHarry Champion - I was olding Me Coconut \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrdh4nkvIBE\n\nPalais de Danse, Giorgi Vintilescu: Komm' in meine Liebeslaube (1911) \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_IwUnOKFo\n\nWill Terry \"Everybody's Grumbling\" British music hall Bert Courtney\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxBMzi8qSiE\n\nEarly British Jazz: Manhattan Jazz Band (1919) \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpabmdNaRg\n\nEric Borchard - Bagatelle \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsU2yc9O9w\n\nIn about the late 1920s, a cozy, not so small, night club spot, simply named 'The Club', opened for business on the southern outskirts of the city of Eldoret . It's main attraction was a highly polished, wooden dance floor. It also had a cafe' counter and dinning area where patrons could get meals, snacks, coffee, tea, or socialize over a cocktail or other mixed drink. Recorded dance music was played through two large, amplified, wooden cabinet housed speakers installed on opposite ends of the back wall.\n[hugethumb]1373893[/hugethumb]\nRecords were played on an Electrola brand phonograph fitted with a transducer microphone in place of the sound horn. The transducer mic was wired to a signal booster control box that sat on the DJ's stand near the phonograph, which from there, the booster box was wired to the speakers.\nBy the early 1930s, The Club had that aura of being that special place of fellowship where it's patrons have been friends for years. The Cub had that same kind of social atmosphere that one would expect to find among longtime patrons of places such as well known roller skating rinks and bowling alleys in a small town...Everyone knew everyone. \nThe following are just a few examples of what they played in those days;\nThe Blue Lyres (at the Dorchester Hotel, London) - My Silent Love - 1932 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6-a1PAeyQ\n\nDid you ever see a dream walking - Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxLe9Xk9ec\n\n1933, Toujours L'amour, Barnabas von Geczy Orch. Hi Def, 78RPM\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRbjNWmmJX8\n\nTonight Or Never - Harry Hudson's Riviera Dance Band - 1932 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTJD0Fd99Q\n\nYou're Twice As Nice As That Girl In My Dreams - Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra - 1931\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HqKsXbdWY\nAnd you didn't have to be a wealthy snob to go there either, as it was by no means one of those fancy high society establishments...Everyone and anyone were welcome. In fact, even though The Club was owned by British species animals, they did not practice those discriminatory policies that would have barred indigenous species animals as patrons. Indigenous animals were as welcome as European species animals were. Even some of the animals on The Club's payroll were of indigenous species...Back in the day, it was common throughout the continent for indigenous species animals to be barred from entering certain establishments... However, depending who was working the cafe' counter at times, there would be some nights when indigenous species animals did find it difficult to be able to get alcohol beverages...If you were a mongoose, genet, lion, hyena, meerkat or of other indigenous species, buying alcohol at The Club was kind of a hit or miss. \nOn some Friday nights, indigenous animals residing in the farm workers shanty town north of Eldoret, and from other surrounding areas, would get the opportunity to get a ride out to the south of town with someone who had a car to have a wonderful evening at The Club... Most of them were at that seemingly magical young adult age when looking for the right mate to settle down with for life seemed like the most important thing in the world.\nThe Club had a pleasant atmosphere. It was not one of those rough neck joints. Of course there were those occasions when one of The Club's DJs, a European pine martin, would play a really rambunctious song, during which everyone had fun making lots of noise and getting the place hoppin' by clapping paws, stomping feet and thumping the wooden cafe' chairs on the wooden dinning area floor, all to the rhythm with the music.\nEric Borchard - Bugle call rag \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9CrIqcq4Q\nWhen Aluna Tatazu Mongoose was going on age 18, she and Makori Jais Mongoose had been in love with each other for some time...Like as was with Aluna's family, Makori had travelled the 800 kilometers away from the homeland to Eldoret with his mom, dad and siblings in search for work...Also like as was with Aluna's family, Makori's mom and dad didn't have a vehicle either, so Makori's family hitchhiked the 800 kilometers from the Lake Turkana area to Eldoret. The family then built a mud and thatch hut for shelter in a rural area outside of town. \nOn many evenings after work, \"dat sweet Kikuyu mongoose boy\" as Aluna called Makori, would ride his old ragged bicycle, with no tire on the front rim, from his mom and dad's rural, mud and thatch home, to the wood and tin shack in the farm workers shanty town where Aluna still resided with her mom Saura Binturong, her dad Nangwaya Mongoose, and her younger siblings Ohon (m), Lusala (m) and Sadika (f).\n On some Friday nights, Makori and Aluna would get a ride out to The Club with someone who had a car. In fact, it was at The Club, on a Friday night in August of 1934, while dancing to the song in the following link, that Makori proposed to Aluna, and Aluna accepted Makori's proposal. \nRudy Vallee - Confessin' (That I Love You) 1930 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYkFyl2xHk\nIn the following month of September, Makori Mongoose and Aluna Mongoose were married, and on March 25th, 1935, their first cub, a male, whom they named Chege, was born in that rural mud and thatch hut where Makori and Aluna resided with Makori's parents and siblings.\nNot very long thereafter, a genet friend of the family, who was running errands with an old truck, stopped by at the now three generation hut where Makori and Aluna resided with their cub Chege, and with Makori's parents and siblings.\n\"De laust tieme I wass bock home, I seid ta Cheef Kweli Mongose dat Aluna ond yough hov ah boy coub\", the genet told Makori.\n\"Theik yough\", Makori thanked the genet, then asked, \"Ow es Cheef Kweli dooen?\" \n\"Kweli es dooen fine\", the genet replied.\nThen the genet went on to tell Makori that the Chief of the Kikuyu village back home where Makori Mongoose's family is from has offered to financially assistance Makori to start a business of his own.\n\"I om heeded bock dot wey...todey...neow\" (w/o the dialect - I am headed back that way...today...now), the genet then added.\nMakori, Aluna, as well as Makori's mom, dad, and siblings were so thrilled to hear what the genet had told them.\n\"Weh aw coumin' ahlong\", Makori said as Aluna went into the hut to get little Chege.\n\"Weh aw ahso\", Makori's dad announced as the rest of the family gathered up blankets and belongings then piled into the back of the truck.\nBeing that Chege was just a cub, Aluna and Chege rode in the cab of the truck with the genet while Makori and his family rode back on the bed.\nAs they were leaving that old hut, Makori's brother Omran said, \"I geese weh not geevin da plonteeshion ah noteese weh quitten\".\n\"Deh doun't need ah reesegnaution. Weh goen home\", Makori's dad added.\nThe Chief's offer was certainly better than the family living as farm labourers in a three generation hut 800 kilometers from home.\nBefore heading up north on Highway A1, which was then a hardpan and gravel road, they stopped by at the farm workers shantytown where Aluna's mom, dad and siblings resided to tell them about the offer Chief Kweli made.\n\"Deh es room fah moah eef yough wonta coume ahlong\" (w/o the dialect - There is room for more if you wanta come along), Makori said to Nangwaya and Suara.\nHowever, Nangwaya and Suara decided on they and their offspring remaining in Eldoret for the time being while the farm work was still good. So after bidding farewell, and Aluna's mom and dad wishing them a safe trip, it was homeward bound on that 800 kilometer ride back to the homeland.\nThe following day, back at the homeland, Makori and Aluna Mongoose met with the Chief of the Kikuyu village. Chief Kweli Mongoose told Makori of an old, 1918, Dennis, retired British Army truck and a wagon style trailer that he knew of that was for sale, and offered Makori the amount of cash capitol needed to begin a business.\nThe truck was an oldie even back then, but it was reliable and in good condition in spite of it's age. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736ipt2T3iI\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7gKXGXhyU\nMakori Mongoose accepted the offer from Chief Kweli Kalu Mongoose (father of future village chief Abasi Kalu Mongoose), and it was not long before Makori began to profit well by attending and bidding at liquidation auctions of warehouse merchandise and other goods where the rent due from the previous owners had gone far into delinquency. Makori and Aluna would then in turn find buyers for it, often by setting up at a spot in a vendor's market, in which they usually turned a good profit...Of course, they've never neglected the gratuity paid back to the tribal village that helped them get started.\nIn January of 1939, when Aluna was pregnant with their 2nd cub, one of Makori's cousins found out about a nice, old, wood frame house not far off of Highway D348 in Turkana County. A marmot couple from France was going to loose the house due to delinquent property taxes. The house, built in 1907, was at that time 32 years old, but it was a pretty good size, wood frame, tin roof house of modern construction, surrounded by roofed porch space. It seemed the marmot couple had been trying to play the roles of \"Mr. and Mrs. big time spenders\" from the very time they had the house built, and although the marmot couple struggled to get the mortgage on the house paid off in full over the past 32 years, they did so at the cost of falling hopelessly behind for the past several years in the property taxes.\nThe Jais Mongoose Family helped their relative and inlaw, Makori and Aluna, with 1,000 shillings cash to bid on that house, and when that house finally went up on auction one morning on the front steps of the Turkana County courthouse, Makori Mongoose was in a position to be able to bid on it.\nThe auctioneer, a bear who was 2nd generation born in Kenya and spoke the dialect, opened the bidding at 100 shillings (a good chunk of money in those days).\n\"Hunet hunet, gimme ya hunet. I heah hunet?\" (Hundred hundred, give me a hundred. I hear hundred?), the bear began.\n\"Heah!\", Makori called out.\nThe bear rambled on, \"Hof hunet, mek huneh-fify, huneh-fifty, bump et fify. I heah huneh-fify?\".\n\"Ie goh eh hoondreed en feefty\", a hyena bided.\n\"Oy give it ah goh ot tewo hondret\", a fox immediately outbid the hyena.\n\"THREE!\", a genet called out, outbidding them both by 100 shillings.\nAfter a brief pause, the bear continued, \"Hof threh, bump meh fify, gimme threhfify...\"\n\"Threh hondreet on fifteh, right heah\", Makori called out.\nThe bear continued, \"Bump meh fify, hof threhfify, bump meh fify, hof threhfify, threhfify ta foah, bump meh fify, hof threhfify, threhfify ta foah, threhfify ta foah, bump meh ta foah...\"\n\"Foar. Got et\", the fox called out.\n\"Foah hondreet on fifteh\", Makori immediately outbid the fox.\nAfter a brief pause, the bear then continued, \"Hof foahfify, foahfify ta five, foahfify ta five, bump meh ta five...\"\nThere were no other bids, and the fox lost interest in wanting to bid any higher.\nAfter rambling for a higher bid for another 20 seconds, the bear then asked the fox, \"Rotneh Fox, deu ya waunt ta go five?\".\nRodney Fox replied, \"No\"... \n...The marmot couple couldn't help feeling sick watching that old house go when they heard the bear conducting the auction announce, \"Goeen oonce...Goeen twize...SOAD, fah foah hondred fifty sheellins, ta Mekoorye Moongoose\".\nMakori Jais Mongoose was the successful bidder, getting that house and land for only a fraction of the cost of what it would have gone for on the real estate market...100% of the mineral rights were still with the land also.\nAnother irony for the marmot couple was, Makori, Aluna and little Ghege who was going on age 4 arrived in that old, 1918, Dennis lorry. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7gKXGXhyU\nThe marmot couple arrived in a shiny black, high price, 1938, Delahaye 135 MS Torpedo Roadster to watch their house go on auction.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ot-tmMq2c0\nFrom the fact the Delahaye was less than a year old, it was obvious that Mr. and Mrs. Marmot purchased it even at a time after their house was already tax distressed.\nAluna even mentioned to Makori about that elaborate Delahaye, \"Dot haughty grand cah deh mommots rode heah en. Why...Yood theenk deh wos tryin to live like de Happy Valley Seet\".\nMakori replied to Aluna, \"Tryin ta beh soomtin deh ain't...Lok ah sky-rockeet...Fly high en maughty. Theen one deah, bun ought en foll bok doun\".\nMakori then added, \"Ie woot nevah waunt a weh uf life like dot Hoppy Volley Seet anyweh...Not fa all da wealth in de wold\".\nThat Happy Valley Set Aluna and Makori were referring to were an elite click of British royals, many of whom were Great Danes, bears and European badgers, who settled far to the south in Kenya. Even though those elite royals were wealthy beyond anyone's wildest dreams, they were far from being truly happy. Life for the Happy Valley Set, along with their family relations and marriages, were literal train wrecks wreaked with infidelity, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and at times even murder. That's why Makori Mongoose said, 'I would never want a way of life like that Happy Valley Set anyway...Not for all the wealth in the world'.\n \n The Happy Valley Set IRL;\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Valley_set \n\nBy the way, the repo process had already begun on that sleek, 1938 Delahaye roadster belonging to the marmot couple, which was then less than one year old and still under warranty. \n\nHaving acquired that tax foreclosed house meant Makori and Aluna, with their cub Chege, could now move out of the tribal village where they had been residing since the time they've returned from Eldoret. And when Makori and Aluna's 2nd cub was born on February 4th, 1939, a female they named Makena, that birth took place in that nice wood frame house. Over the next 18 years plus, there would be seven more of Makori and Aluna's cubs born in that house.\n\nAs for that old 1918 Dennis lorry, that would be kept as the family's business truck all the way into the 1960s. \nIn the year after Makena was born, the family got a 1935, Standard, Model 10 automobile, which was only five years old at the time and still in showroom condition...Of course the name didn't mean it had a 10 cylinder motor. But although the car had a small four cylinder motor, it still had lots of get up and go for that day and time.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ5qAZw \nAluna expressed concern for the cubs about the car's doors being hinged from behind (what some refer to as \"suicide doors\"). But it was made crystal clear to the cubs, \"Nevah nevah nevah plae wit da dowas while we awh trovileen don da rod\".\nThe car rode nice too. And five year old Chege and one year old Makena were thrilled that the car had a sliding sunroof over the front seat.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oAj9tY13k\nIt would be 13 years later before Makori would purchase the family's next car, which would at that time be a 1951 Standard Vanguard station wagon about to turn 3 years old...\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rq-yzFgGog\n...But this was still the year 1940.\n\nDuring the years of World War II, Makori and Aluna had heard news reports, coming in on their old, 1933, Philco model 38, battery powered, farm radio, of conflicts along Kenya's borders with what was then Italian controlled Ethiopia and Somalia, and of Italy's failed attempt to conquer Egypt. \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQR2HTwP8Y\nBut fortunately for the family, all this was going on at the northeast side of Kenya, and the family lived in the western part of the country. The radio reports of the war would sometimes frighten little Chege Mongoose, but Mom and Dad would always assure Chege that the family will be safe. Makena was still young enough that she did not fully understand what the radio reports were all about.\n\nThere were times Makori, Aluna and the cubs would take the 800 kilometer (500 mile) trip, which took a whole day, down to Eldoret to visit Aluna's parents and younger siblings who were still residing at the farm workers shanty town north of the city of Elderet. Ohon was already \"ot oov de nest\" and married and no longer resided in the farm workers shanty town. Aluna's relatives, as well as the other animals who lived in the shanty town, none of whom owned a car, would admire with the 'oos' and 'ahhs', over Makori and Aluna's 1935, Standard, Model 10 automobile, which still looked as good as the day it was new.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ5qAZw\nDuring some of those visits, Makori and Aluna would treat the family to The Club for a social night out. Makori would offer to pay the expenses being that Nangwaya and Saura had always been financially poor...So Makori, Aluna, Nangwaya, Saura Binturong, Lusala and Sadika piled into that 1935 Standard, Model 10, with the cubs, Chege and Makena, riding on Mom's lap. A Standard Model 10 is not a very big car, but everyone did manage to find a place to sit...then it was off to The Club.\nDuring one of those evening trips to The Club, Nangwaya Mongoose made mention that although he himself was to old to be called up to go off to war, he did express that concern for his sons Jaramogi, Ohon and Lusala, as well as concern for his favorite son-in-law, Makori.\n\"Thot hos crossed meh mind befah\", Makori replied on the way to The Club. \"Boot I try nota theenk aboat et\".\nSaura Binturong mentioned that's a matter best entrusted in God's safekeeping.\nAt The Club, the family had a good time enjoying their social outing. Makori and Aluna got treats for Chege and Makena at the cafe' area. Lusala wanted to get Pina Colada, but the British otter working the cafe' counter that night would not sell alcohol to indigenous species animals...so Lusala setteled for a Coke. Makori and Aluna danced to a few songs, reminiscing when it was on that same dance floor eight years earlier that Makori proposed and Aluna accepted.\nNangwaya and Saura tried a few dance numbers...as best they could at the older ages they were.\nAt the cafe' counter, Aluna mentioned to Makori, \"Et wos nevah dees crowded bock wen weh ustah come heah\".\n\"Yea...Et woozint\", Makori added.\n\"It's becose ov the war\", the otter working the counter interjected. \"Fah soam ov theaz couples doncin' eout on the floor tonoit, it's a los chonce for a young male ta beh wit ez sweat haut befoe eh goes off ta war\".\nNangwaya started to say, \"Soh, soam ov doas malls awh...\"\n\"Bean colled up fah sovice...Indigoanous ond Brits ahloike...I coud aiven beh colled fah all I know\", the otter cut in, then after giving a sigh, continued, \"Soam ov theaz females moight beh wittoes befoe thayz mates coam bock home...Boat na wah ov tellin' which ones, ya know\". \nSaura Binturong added, \"Tiz a sad thing...I know we ALL want ta see this war be over\". \nAs the evening continued, the cheetah who was the DJ that night would always keep a song playing as long as there were animals couples who wanted to dance.\nCling To Me - The BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall 1936 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRWTeVmpL0\nYou started me Dreaming, Henry Hall, 1936\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vmEpA0MoA\nMrs Jack Hylton & Her Band Love, Just Love\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWCCLXgeXI\nAs the song selection, 'Love, Just Love', played, an old adult fox, took a seat beside Nangwaya's son, Lusala, at the cafe' counter. \nAfter about a minute, Lusala inquired to the otter behind the counter, \"Why es et ya con't soal ta meh ah Peenah Calotta I want?\".\n\"See heah lad\", the otter started. \"Ya an indigoanous spaicees ainamal. Tonoit, I got da ceounta, an it's meh reules...I know ya deon't wont meh ta toss ya oughta heah\".\nWhen the otter went to go wait on someone else, the old fox sitting beside Lusala said to Lusala, \"Doun't get mod ought eem, Lad. Whot-cha soiys weh pull ah good one on dot oughtta?\".\n\"Heow ya gonta do dat?\", Lusala asked.\n\"Well. Wood ah rum-n-Coke deou ya?\", the fox asked.\n\"Well, yees. Bot da ottah woon't seel et ta meh\", Lusala answered.\n\"Well, Oy soiys ya con 'ave one...Eotta ah stroit Coke. Dis ell cova et\", the fox whispered to Lusala as he placed enough coins to pay for the Coke on the counter from a pouch on a belt he was wearing...\"Oyl toik caeh od da rest\", the fox assured Lusala.\nThe DJ put the next song on as Lusala waited for the otter to come back and take that order for a straight Coke.\nPaul Whiteman Orchestra - Get Out And Get Under The Moon (1928)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0e5VPs-CU\nShortly after that song began, the otter came back from waiting on other patrons, and that's when Lusala ordered the straight Coke as the old fox had told him to do.\n\"Neow, thot's mah lok et\", the otter said to Lusala when he placed the straight Coke on the counter and collected the money.\n\"Ah rum-n-Coke ploize\", the fox ordered.\n\"Rum ond Coke. Ya got et\", said the otter, then gave the fox what he ordered and collected the money for it.\nWith the exception of a mixed drink having no soda straw, a glass of straight Coke and a glass rum and Coke look alike. So when the otter wasn't looking, the fox switched the drinks.\n\"Ahh, Theenk ya\", Lusala thanked the fox with a smile.\n\"Oy jost wonted a stroit Coke fah mehself onywah\", the fox said to Lusala.\nJabir Genet, who was working the kitchen that evening, saw the switch-a-roo of the drinks, but he just gave Lusala Mongoose and the old fox a smile...Jabir Genet was not about to tell Sammy Otter.\nLusala again thanked the fox, thus Lusala got a rum and Coke, and the otter didn't even have a clue.\n\"Ello. Fawgot one thiang. Ya kaip this, Lad\", the fax said to Lusala as he gave the soda straw back to Lasala. \"If thot oughtta saw meh wit dis straw, eh'd sea roight thru aw liddle gig. An wea'd BOTH get boutted outta heah\".\n\"Ah yees\", Lusala realized as he took the straw to place it in his rum and Coke.\nMore songs followed as the grateful, young adult mongoose and the old fox who tricked discriminating Sammy Otter enjoyed their drinks. \n\"From Me To You\" Eddie Duchin and His Orchestra 1933 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviLoclLQ0I\n\"Ukulele Moon\" 1930 Fred Rich & His Orchestra\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvZngHT5fc\nRadio Melody Boys (Harry Hudson) - \"With a Song in my Heart\" (1930) \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXHpOk2Tgg8\nWhile music was being played, the cubs, Chege and Makena, got up from their table and stepped around on the cafe' floor like they were dancing.\n\"Meh neese ond nehfew ah litto donssas tahnite\", Lusala said with a smile as everyone chuckled.\n\"Aww, dot es sah cute\", Aluna said as the cubs continued their dancing.\n\"Weh donssin, Mamma\", Chege proudly proclaimed as a four year old, male, genet cub, a year older than Makena, came over and began dancing with Makena.\n\"Makeena, yah fond ah boi friend\", Makori chuckled to his daughter.\n\"O mebe ah boi friend fond hah\", Grand Dad Nangwaya laughed.\n\"Yah hof two ve-ee beautahfoo cubs\", said a female genet who was dancing with her husband on an area of the dance floor near the cafe' area.\n\"Oh, theank yah\", Aluna thanked the genet couple.\nThe two adult genets introduced themselves as the parents of the male genet cub, and of a six year old female cub who was being intertained by the waiter Sammy Otter and the cook Jabin Genet.\n\"Gottah goh nah\", the female genet cub said to Sammy and Jabin. \"Ah see ah launly boi deah\", she said as she pointed to Chege, then ran over to him.\n\"Okoy. Knock 'em auot, Las\", Sammy told her.\n\"Goh geet eem, girel\", Jabin added.\n\"Ie wanta donce wif yah\", the female genet cub boldly anounced to Chege, almost catching Chege by suprise.\n\"Ha ha! Yah got yah ah girel\", Nangwaya said to Chege as he laughed along with the parents and other family members of the mongoose and genet cubs.\n\"At this rate, we will also have genet genes in the family\", Grand Ma Saura Binturong said as everyine chuckled. \nThe song presently playing was an old 1936 release of 'A Rendezvous With A Dream', that had three short runs with a Hawian guitar. When the first Hawian guitar run on the record sounded, the female genet cub dancing on the cafe' floor with Chege moved her hips, feet and paws in the same side motion as a hula dancer would do. \n\"Aw, soh cute\", Aluna said as everyone got a kick out of it.\nBy the time the 2nd Hawian guitar run sounded, Chege, Makena and both genet cubs, along with cubs of several other patrons, started doing those hula moves like the female genet cub started, which everyone thought was so cute.\nOn the 3rd Hawian guitar run, the cubs giggled and laughed as they did that hula side motion again.\nA Rendezvous With A Dream (1936) - Buddy Clark\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpeqYFvpm2Y\nThe Club did not always close at a certain set time each night...Closing time always varied around an hour after midnight...Sometimes earlier closer to midnight, and sometimes later just before 2:00 o'clock. That night, it was about 1:35 am when The Club's owners, Edgar Badger and his wife Monica, got with the Sammy Otter who was running the cafe' counter that night to tally up the earnings the cafe' counter took in...during which following song was playing.\nHenry Hall - Dream A While \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGlHN6ZmTo\nThe presents of the badger couple was also how everyone knew that it was not long before it would be closing time...Often times, Edgar would be puffing on a cigar. And sure enough, came the cue from Edger Badger, in which during the last dance song, Sammy Otter announced the last call for patrons to place any food or drink orders. \n\"One Heavenly Night\" 1930 Leo Reisman \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrna8ZlWK24\nThen there was also an observance conducted just before everyone left. It wasn't something owners of The Club had always done. And it was decided by The Club's owners that until the war ended the observance would be continued at the end of each business night...Sammy Otter then went over to inform Jengo Cheetah running the DJ's stand that it was time to put on the last song of the night, which was always one of the British national patriotic song records The Club had acquired since the war began...They ranged from 'The British Grenadiers', to 'Land of Hope and Glory', to 'God Save the Queen (or King)'.\nWhen the last dance song finished, Jengo Cheetah, still at the DJ's stand, announced, \"Ah woot lok ta osk eveaone ta stond pleese\".\nMost of the animals who were seated at the cafe' area got up off their seats right away and stood just as Jengo had asked. For those who were still getting up a moment thereafter, Edger Badger motioned his paws in an upward fashion with palms up as though to reiterate, 'Everyone stand please'. \nThe final song for that night was a variation of Britain's national anthem, 'God Save the King'...which, to British national customs, was played in lieu of' 'God Save the Queen', being that a male was reigning as British monarch at the time (King Alfred George Bear VI).\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KLaW35VoA\nEveryone in The Club, indigenous and British animals alike, remained standing as the anthem continued to play. During the playing of the anthem, the cubs Makena and Chege, who were then ages three and seven, began tag playing at each other.\n\"Mekeena. Cheege\", Mamma Aluna called them down. \"Yoo stond en rahspect ontil da onthom es ovah\". \nIt was also obvious which of the males were about to be sent to war...They and their wives, or female friends, were the ones holding paws as the anthem played.\nAfter the anthem finished playing, Edger and Monica Badger, as they always had done, thanked everyone for their patronage just before they left to head home.\nBecause Makori and Aluna with the cubs and Nangwaya, Saura, Lusala and Sadika were about the last ones to leave, the cubs Chege and Makena watched Jengo Cheetah shut down the music equipment for the night.\n[hugethumb]1373893,4[/hugethumb]\nBecause of audio equipment having vacuum tubes back in those days, when the cheetah turned the cabinet speakers off, they made a short hum-n-skip sound;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vv1aL-JHU\n...followed by a brief, falling, tone oscillation;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPQTAofMmg \n\"Wha et mek dat nooese!?, Makena asked Mom and Dad after the first speaker was shut down.\n\"Ah beet dea es ah Mahshen froom Mahz een that spekah\", Chege told Makena as the adults, including the cheetah, laughed.\n\"Theah es nah leddel green onimal froom Mahz en theah\", Jengo Cheetah chuckled. \"Dot es froom da eloctreet potecals onloadin froom da toobes ween yoo shoat dem off\".\nDaddy Makori mentioned to the cubs, \"Aw rodio ought da hoose meks ah soond lok et ween ya toon et off...bot, ahhh...not dat leoud doh\".\n\"Ah knoo, Poppa. Dees speakahs mek ah BEEG nooese\", Chedge exclaimed, followed by Makena adding, \"YEES!\", as Makori and Aluna, as well as the other adults chuckled over the amazement exhibited by the cubs. \nEveryone had a really wonderful time at The Club that night. And on the way back to the farm workers shanty town where Nangwaya and Saura resided with their two youngest adult offspring Lusala and Sadika, they all thanked Makori and Aluna for the night out.\nIt was late at night, and it was going to be a long trip back home for Makori, Aluna and the cubs, so Nangwaya and Saura let them sleep over for the night before they made the 800 kilometer trip back home in the morning. \n\n\nBy September of 1943, members of the family, friends and other locals were relieved to begin hearing news reports that Italy had conceded defeat and entered into an armistice with Britain and her allies. And it didn't come anytime too soon either. Makori, his brother Omran, and several other young adult males in the family, along with some of Aluna's male relatives including her brothers Jaramogi, Ohon and Lusala had earlier been notified that they would be called in for military service to help fight the Italians, had the conflict continued. As it turned out, they never had to be called.\nThe following year, on April 4th 1944, Makori and Aluna's 3rd cub, a female they named Kioni, was born.\nOne year later, about the same time as Kioni's first birthday celebration on April 4th, 1945, everyone was so relieved to hear of the news about Nazi Germany well on it's way to being defeated...And finally, in the beginning of the following month of May, came the news of Nazi Germany's surrender, and the news of Germany's fuhrer, Adolfo Hildon Wolf, committing suicide. \nMany relatives of the Jais and Tatazu Mongoose Families, along with friends and other locals had wondered for some time, \"Dooz dat mod woof hauv da robies aw somtin?\". \nThere had been a conspiracy theory circulated around parts of West Pokot and Turkana Counties that Adolfo Hildon Wolf was a rabid wolf.\nOnly three months later, on the morning of August 6th, 1945, the family was getting ready to have breakfast while a funny little song the cubs liked was playing on that old Philco radio in the living room.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpbC_j5Xb4k\nChege who was then age 10, Makena who was then age 6, and Kioni who was then one year old would giggle and laugh whenever they heard that song play on the radio.\nSuddenly the music stopped...There was a pause for a few seconds...Then an announcement from BBC news began in the usual slight British accent, \"We interropt this progrom to bring you a special BBC news bulletin... Thare aw repots it is balieved, although not confomed ought this time, that several ours ago, the U.S. hod dropped a new kind of bomb on the Joponese city of Hiroshima. It is not known ought this time if the city of Hiroshima no longer exists any moua. Very little news, if any, is aible to get out. We will bring you opdates as they become avoloble... We return you now to yau rogular scheduled progrom\".\nThe song that was interrupted on the radio then continued to play. \nWhen Makori and Aluna heard about 'new kind of bomb' and 'city may no longer exist', it was like, \"Wot woss DAT?!\".\nEven for the two older cubs who were old enough to know what they were hearing from the radio, the news bulletin invoked some sobering thought. \nThroughout that day, the local Kenyan animals who had access to a radio would ask others, \"Ya heah aboot dat boom the yonkees drop on Jopon?\".\nThere was even a non-anthro giraffe, but could verbally communicate with anthro animals, who went around telling everyone she met, \"Eay, evahboty! Ahmaheeka blohed op Hiausheema, China wif a new beeg boom!\".\nA serval eventually set the record straight with the giraffe, telling her, \"Da EEZ noh Hiausheema, China. Et es Jopon...Behsods, China es ah allie ta Ahmeaheeka. Wha woot Ahmeaheeka wont ta bloh op China?\". \nEven though it was still an unconfirmed event, and a quarter way around the world, it certainly was the talk of the day.\nA day later on the 8th, it was confirmed such a bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...And on the 9th, the very same day the local news paper started coming out with articles and images of the catastrophic results it produced, a 2nd one of those \"new bombs\" was dropped only hours earlier on another Japanese city that, to the Kenyan local animals, had a strange name...Nagasaki.\nStarting one morning a week later, news began to rapidly spread throughout the locality about the emperor of Japan, Hiroyuki Weasel (a Japanese weasel) announcing to his fellow country animals of Japan, that Japan must surrender if all life in Japan is to survive...That was finally the end of World War II, in which less than a month later on September 2nd, the surrender of Japan was made official with the signing of the documents aboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay.\nOn that Sunday morning of the 2nd (well into afternoon Japanese time), Makori, Aluna and the cubs heard the anouncement of the Japanese Imperial Rescript of Surrender broadcasted on their Philco radio in the living room of their home. \nThe Club wasn't open on Sundays...But on Monday the 3rd, The Club drew in a big crowd when it opened it's doors at it's usual time of 3:00 in the afternoon. Joey the European pine martin was running the DJ's stand that day, and the first record he played was a very special song for the occasion.\nJack Payne & His Orchestra - \"It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day\" \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP72VPpx7g0\nNearly all the animals in the place cheered, clapped paws, thumped the cafe' floor with the wooden chairs, and foot stomped as that song played, along with many couples hop-jig dancing out on the dance floor...Everyone was so happy to see the war finally over with.\nDuring the war, prior to Italy's surrender in September of 1943, there were quite a few locals, both indigenous and British species animals, who were called up to go to war in the campaign against Italian aggression...There were some of those animals who did not make it back home alive. After the war was over, The Club set aside a place on the back wall behind the DJ's stand to hang up old, framed photos of them as kind of a shrine to those locals who died in the war. Above the photos hung a wood plaque with engraved, white painted lettering, which read 'May they never be forgotten'. In the years to follow, those who were new to the area and were not from the local vicinity didn't know who the animals were in those several photos behind the DJ's stand...But the locals knew, and if asked, would often tell a newcomer who they were. \nIn the months following the end of the war, Edgar and Monica Badger took a trip to Nairobi to order some brand new, 1945, latest record releases from a well known record outlet. Of course the records Edgar and Monica purchased were versions licensed for commercial use in order to legally be able to play them for customers at The Club. Many of them were records imported from the U. S. from 'across the pond'...those western recordings that had become so popular with everyone;\n1945 HITS ARCHIVE: (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight - Perry Como\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvHPaNGz9w\n1945 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) - Perry Como\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfax4TV8-Q\n1945 HITS ARCHIVE: You Belong To My Heart - Charlie Spivak (Jimmy Saunders, vocal) \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1clG6AAZwA\n1945 HITS ARCHIVE: There I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe (his original #1 version)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Um92VEf66A\n1945 Vintage - Jack Payne with his Orchestra (6 British song releases)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHleuTzH8U\nWithin the next few years to follow, Edgar and Monica Badger would be adding to The Club's music collection, recordings of African indigenous jazz dance songs...After all, since the twenty some years at that time The Club had been in business, they did have as many indigenous species patrons as those who were of British species...It was something Edgar and Monica's three sons and two daughters had suggested.\nThese were some of the songs for the indigenous species animals to mention a few;\nSkokiaan (Chikokiyana) - Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-orzKx8o4\nNabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz ;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1a_tZywUM\nKAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEBzhBLdHc\nTrio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeD4uB0-uw\nAnd also, Sammy Otter had gotten away from his policy of refusing to sell alcohol to indigenous species animals...That came with a little help from Edgar Badger one evening when Sammy was working the cafe' counter. At about 8:30 that evening, Edgar dropped by The Club to check on how things were going. It was also about the time a hyena had ordered a gin sour and his wife ordered a brandy alexander.\n\"Sorry. I deoun't sell doues kond ah drinks ta ondigenous speacies ainamals\", Sammy promptly informed the hyena couple. \"Oi'd beh happy ta sell yah ony stroit drink ya waunt\".\nEdgar, overhearing Sammy, retorted, \"Oh fa croying ought leoud, Sommy!...Blimey anahway...Give tha coustomahs wat dae want\"...\n...Thus it was a gin sour for Mr. Hyena, and a brandy alexander for Mrs. Hyena. \n\nWith the war now over, Makori Mongoose began to try his paw at bidding on tax foreclosed real estate. He had been saving up enough capital to do so from the warehouse lots he and Aluna had been bidding on and reselling over the past several years.\nThere really were not a lot of tax foreclosed properties in those small cities and towns not far away from home... But there would be in Nairobi because of it being a big city, and it wasn't long before Makori figured that out. So on occasion, Makori and Aluna with their cubs Chege, Makena and Kioni, would get in that old, 1935, Standard, Model 10, and take the trip to the Nairobi County Courthouse in the city of Nairobi to do the research on the land records of the real estate properties facing tax foreclosure...After all, Makori and Aluna wanted to be sure to avoid bidding on something with other liens and judgements already against it. Then they would make another trip back to Nairobi when those properties go up for auction...A trip to Nairobi was roughly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles), but bidding on properties there was profitable enough to make it worth the trip. \nThere is a grace period of time for the previous owner of an auctioned off property to come up with money, plus interest, to buy back the property from a bidder. Once that grace period has elapsed, the property then belongs to the bidder to either keep it, rent it out, sell it or whatever the bidder wants to do with it. And when the first of Makori and Aluna's investment properties finally sold on the real estate market, Makori and Aluna saw how much more profitable dealing in tax foreclosed real estate was than it was dealing in rent foreclosed warehouse lots.\nMakori even told Aluna, \"Weh shoota bein doin dees all along onsteed ah sellin wah-heuse stoof\".\nBut it was like Aluna told Makoti, \"Well, Weh hot ta stot from somwheah. On weh deed\". \nHowever, Makori and Aluna would still occasionally bid on and sell rent delinquent goods from warehouse and storage facility liquidation auctions...After all, you never know what you'll find really good in those. \n\nEarly in the morning of February12th, 1947, shortly after dawn, Chief Kweli Kalu Mongoose suddenly passed away of a heart seizure, thus making his oldest son, Abasi Kalu Mongoose, chief of the village.\n\nEventually, Nangwaya and Saura, with their adult offspring Lusala and Sadika, were able to move out of that farm workers shantytown north of Eldoret and move north to the Lake Turkana area where Makori, Aluna and their cubs reside...It was there at the local Kikuyu tribal village that Sadika Mongoose met Tambo Mongoose...It wasn't long before the two Mongooses fell in love, got married, and began a family in the Kikuyu village with cubs of their own. \n\nOver the next decade plus, there would be six more cubs born to Makori and Aluna in that old, Victorian era, wood frame house;\nA male, Ruguru, on January 15th, 1947\nA female, Chanya, on March 6th, 1949\nA male, Kanja, on December 15th, 1952\nA male, Moyo, on May 1st, 1954\nA male, Jomo, on September 10th, 1955\nA female, Jabet, on August 30th, 1957\n\nAnd sometime during the late 1950s and early 1960s Britain would give Kenya it's independence.\n\nThus time goes on. \n \n\n\n\n[largethumb]1184983[/largethumb] \n\nThis story is also on SoFurry, FurAffinity and Weaysl.\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Disclaimer: Though there are basic elements of this story based on real life, much of the scenarios in it are either loosely based or added for story purposes and entertainment.

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Moyo is a male, African banded mongoose who was born at home on May 1st, 1954 in what was then British occupied Kenya. Moyo is of a mild mannered demeanor and appears outwardly to be a bit naive, but sees things as they really are. Moyo is loving, sexy and cute. His sexual orientation is straight, and he is loyal in any sexual relationship. Moyo is also honest. He feels more comfortable with someone having $50 that belongs to him, than to have $50 of someone else's money wrongfully taken.
During the time Moyo and the eight other siblings were growing up, home was in Turkana County in the northern part of Rift Valley Province, Kenya. In fact, from the old Jais Mongoose Family homestead was about a 30 to 45 drive to the shore of Lake Turkana where you can look out and see Crocodile Island, which was formed from a now mostly inactive volcano.
There is some illiteracy, little modern technology  and most of the locals have always been poor, however with a few exceptions such as those from prosperous tribes and families. But everyone is helpful to each other. And Moyo gets by well with a 7th grade education.
Moyo is from a family of nine siblings including himself...Six other siblings are older than Moyo, and two are younger.
The birth order goes as follows:
Chege (born 3-25-35 male),
Makena (born 2-4-39 female),
Kioni (born 4-8-44 female),
Ruguru (born 1-15-47 male),
Chanya (born 3-6-49 female),
**Kanja (born 12-15-52 male),
Moyo (born 5-1-54 male),
Jomo (born 9-10-55 male),
Jabet (born 8-30-57 female).
Moyo and siblings are 1/4 binturong and 1/4 Pokot tribal African banded mongoose from their mother, Aluna Jais Mongoose (formally Aluna Tatazu Mongoose {pronounced Ah-loo'-nah Tat-taz'-zoo})...And 1/2 Kikuyu tribal African banded mongoose from their dad, Makori Jais Mongoose (pronounced Ma-koo'-rye Jay'-es). BTW, Makori Mongoose's grand dad on his mother's side of the family was an Indian mongoose. So there is also 1/8 Indian mongoose from dad's side of the family in the genepool of Moyo and the siblings. With no "real" hospital being nearby, all members of the family, like all other locals, had been born in the homes and tribal villages where they grew up...Hospitals were considered to be for the ill and injured anyway, and the locals certainty did not deem being born as an illness or an injury.
**Kanja, Moyo and Jomo were already uncles, as well Jabet being already an aunt, at the times of their birth. Early in the year of 1951, oldest brother Chege, at age 16, got his 17 year old girl friend, Jahaira, pregnant. A few weeks after Chege and Jahaira agreed to get married, their first cub, a female, was born on March 1st, 1951, whom they named Dafina Jais Mongoose. Two years later, Chege and Jahaira's first son was born on June 30th, 1953, whom they named Kanoro Jais Mongoose. During family visits, Dafina, Kanoro and their younger aunt and uncles, **Kanja, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet, and sometimes along with their older uncle and aunt, Chanya and Ruguru, would play together as though they were all siblings.  
**Kanja (Moyo's next older brother) was born borderline mentally challenged, IQ of 76, well below average but not fully mentally retarded (retardation is 69 to 70 and below). Still the same, Kanja Jais Mongoose is loved by his family, friends and locals, and no one makes fun of him over his being mentally impaired. However, there was the time someone did dare to do so...While the family was enjoying an evening out at a cafe' in the hometown of Lodwar, a local jackal sitting at the counter, who had been drinking, was getting to be obnoxious .
The intoxicated jackal eventually turned around, stared at Kanja a moment, then began calling him, "Mpumbavu...Kijinga Kanja" (Foolish one...Stupid Kanja).
Immediately, Daddy Makori Mongoose sprang up from the family's table, yanked the jackal off his stool at the counter, and beat the living Hell out of the jackal for it so bad it was five minutes before he could stand back to his feet...An empty table and two chairs even got knocked over in the process.
After the jackal was able to stand back up on his feet, the proprietor of the cafe', an African civet, told the jackal, "I om oskin' ya ta leeve... Usirudi kamwe!… Goh!... Geet!" (I am asking you to leave...Do not return, never!... Go!... Get!).
As the now battered jackal limped and staggered his way to the front door to leave the cafe', other patrons in the cafe' who knew the Jais Mongoose Family expressed harsh disdain against the jackal for how he mistreated Kanja Mongoose...
...The jackal never dared to call Kanja those kind of names again.
Kanja's younger brothers Moyo and Jomo possesses IQs of around 89, borderline between average and very slightly below average. Jabet's IQ is 93, lower end of average...Mamma Mongoose was getting up into her older age by the time she gave birth to Kanja, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet.
Sister Kioni is the genius of the siblings with a high average IQ of 118. The rest of the siblings; Chege, Makena, Ruguru and Chanya have average IQs ranging between 97 to 105.
Moyo is from a family that started out with a fairly low income, but not as poverty stricken as a Meerkat Family and others in Southern rural Angola had been...However, the family income would improve as time goes on...Because Makori Mongoose is from the more prosperous Kikuyu tribe (pronounced Kick-koo'-you), the village of Makori's family provided financial assistance to help Makori start out with bidding at liquidation auctions on storage units and warehouse lots that had become debt delinquent, then selling the contents at vendor's markets for a profit...Then later getting into going into the cities and investing and selling tax foreclosed properties, some of which having rent income...That assistance is reserved only for members of Kikuyu tribal families, whether they reside in or away from a village, and for no one else. However, there is a lifelong obligation that comes with accepting that assistance...A member of a Kikuyu tribal family who prospers as a result of receiving tribal assistance to start a business is expected to donate 5% to 17% of business earnings back into the tribe, collected quarterly throughout the year for a lifetime. The percentage of what is collected fluctuates with income level and profit margin being earned by the individual. Much of what is collected by the tribe is then in turn given to assist other tribal members who wish to go out into the "modern world" and become prosperous. It is an investment in both the individual tribal member and the tribe, thus why the Kikuyu Tribe and it's members prosper better than other tribes do.  
Even back during the time Moyo and Family had been below the middle class income level, they've still always enjoyed a standard of living considerably above that of the 3rd world.
The family home is fairly sizable, old, wood frame, with a slightly rusted tin roof, and the floors creek a little. The house is surrounded completely by porch, and what would be the attic is an upper story with gables...what some realtors would call "an old, white elephant house".  But the house, 100+ years old now days and still standing, is built of 19th to 20th century construction which is modern for the time it was built, with wooden walls, floors and roof structure...as oppose to the small, clay wall, dirt floor homes like are quite common throughout the local countryside.
BTW, Makori, with help from some of his relatives within the Kikuyu tribe, was able to successfully bid on that old house that a French marmot couple lost in a tax delinquency foreclosure auction...The lifelong gratuity reimbursement for receiving the money to bid on that house was not expected by the leader and elders of the tribal village, because that help came from only within Makori Mongoose's family.    
Over the years, floors in the bathroom, kitchen and parlor had gotten in pretty bad condition. Those three rooms were eventually re-floored with plywood and tiled.
The parlor floor is shown in the BB code tag below;

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Walls in the parlor and living room have been wood paneled and stained dark mauve, the kitchen and two other rooms have been dry-walled, the bathroom walls have been ceramic tiled, and most of the rooms and the hallway still bare the original lath and plaster troweled stucco the house was built with.
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The house was originally built in 1907 without electricity. In 1958, electrical service became available through a rural development program, which was also about the time the British had granted Kenya the freedom to hold elections...It was a year earlier, in 1957, the clay and gravel, north-south highway A1 was paved with asphalt blacktop.
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It was in that year of 1958 that Highway D348 from out of Kolokol, which runs by not far from the Jais Mongoose homestead, was also paved.
While the rural development program was moving forward, since about 1952 the country had become rather politically unstable due to the struggle for independence from Britain. A few years into the 1950s, some parts of the country had actually become dangerous, due to a rebel movement, known as Kenya Land and Freedom Fighters, who's members aim was to take Kenya's struggle for independence to the next level - a civil war. However, it was by 1956, that the British had put a stop to that movement, although a state of national emergency by the British was to still be maintained until December of 1959...
...By the way, many of those freedom fighters were from the Kikuyu tribe...Daddy Makori Mongoose's tribe.
And even though Daddy Makori Mongoose usually assumes the role of dominant decision maker of the family, Mama Aluna Mongoose did make it clear to Daddy, "Daun't yah deaih geet eenvoaved en dat fighten movement" ...which Daddy Makori did agree.      
During that rural development program, and despite of the struggle going on for Kenya's independence, there were many local animals and their families who were building homes that were more comfortable, although a few of them were a bit shack like with corrugated tin exteriors. The old thatch tribal huts they've always lived in were either abandoned, used as utility buildings or given to other of their relatives.
In the summer of 1960 (when Moyo was age 6) the house was wired for electricity. The wiring was installed on the outer surfaces of the walls and ceilings, under decorative wire guards, as was done with many buildings in those days that didn't originally have electricity.
Having electricity also made it possible to run a well pump so plumbing could be piped into the house, which was done in that same year with help from a rural development program grant awarded to the family...Since 1960, water no longer had to be carried in from the well by pails for drinking, cooking, bathing and toilet flushing (Of course, being animals with no clothing, there are no laundry needs except for blankets, towels and wash rags).

 The family cars have always been old station wagons or old utility vehicles (not 'sport utility'). However, the cars the family has owned, although old, have been in pretty fair to good shape, and not in a condition to the extent of being ragged, rusted out and falling apart.
The car Moyo's family had when Moyo was born was a 1951 Standard Vanguard wagon like the one in the link below, except the Mongoose Family's car was right paw drive and being purchased used, did show some age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rq-yzFgGog

In 1963, when Moyo's younger brother, Jomo, was 8 years of age, Kenya's first president, President Jomo Kenyarusso Aardwolf, was elected following the country's independence from British rule...Kenya was finally an independent nation, and no longer a British colony.
Being that President Jomo Aardwolf had the same first name as Jomo Mongoose, the siblings would always joke around about that.
They would say to their little bro, "Jomo. Ah you da presadeent?".
Jomo would reply, "Nahhhh!...Meh not da presadeent".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta
It would be the following year, 1964, that the independence of the Republic of Kenya would be officially proclaimed. And the way everything turned out was a sigh of relief for the Jais Mongoose Family and other anthro-animals the family knew. That was because during the few years leading up to Kenya gaining it's independence, many of the locals had concerns the newly founded country might go the route of being a communist country. The fact that the Soviet Union had been eyeing up Africa when many of the countries on the continent were decolonizing was cause for grave concern...However, very fortunately, and good it was, Kenya did not go communist, thus was founded as a free nation.  

By the year 1964, Makori's brother, Omran had also been doing well with investing in financially distressed real estate, and had a steady rent income from several rental houses in Nairobi. Omran and his wife Jiona, with their sons Hali and Anasa, and daughters Issa and Elea, lived in the nearby Kikuyu tribal village...Although the city of Nairobi was far away, Omran and Jiona always received the rent payments from their tenants by mail on time.
And because Omran, Jiona and their cubs lived in a tribal village, there was almost no cost of living except for the gratuity paid to the village chief for the financial help that got their income started. Most of the food came from off the land. Water was drawn from a creek. There were no utilities, thus no utility bills...The only utility was a phone shared by the village (rotary dial phone in those days), and that was in a lock box mounted on a telephone pole near the paved highway at the beginning of the three kilometer (one and a half mile), dirt lane that leads to the village. The locked box prevented strangers from pulling off the highway and stealing use of the phone. The key to the phone box was on a ring hung on the porch of the chief's house for who ever in the village needed to go up the three kilometer dirt lane and use the phone...Everyone had use of the phone - Everyone shared the phone bill.
In April of 1964, Omran and Jiona decided to take a two month, overseas trip with their cubs to the U. S. The family had already obtained their Kenyan passports a few months earlier. Needless to say, Issa, Hali, Elea and Anasa were very excited. It would be the first time for Omran and Jiona being away from the African continent, and the first time for the cubs being out of Kenya. And the trip being from mid April to late June would not be a conflict with the cubs schooling either, being that they attended school there in the village, thus making the schedule easy to work around.
Before the departure date of the trip, some of the adolescent animals in the village asked Omran, "Ah da streets REALLAE poved weet gold in Ameeikah?! Ya theenk dey woot let ya breeng sume bock heah?!".      
Chief Abasi Mongoose, knowing better, laughed and informed the adolescents, "Dea aun't na gold on da steets theah. Heh heh heh. Dot es jost ah ole sayen.".
Anyway, everyone in the village did wish the family an enjoyable trip.
When Omran with his wife and cubs later visited his brother, Makori, Makori and Aluna asked if they would bring some pictures back of the U.S. when they return to Kenya.
"Weel hov lots a pictchas", Omran assured. Ond mehbe siveneeahs".
The mention of souvenirs being brought back really got Kanja, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet cheering.  
Jomo, then not quite age 9, asked Mom and Dad, "Con we go wit Ouncle Omron an Aunt Jiona to Ameeikah?!".
"Weh con't caus weh doon't hov posspots ta go theah", Makori answered Jomo.
"Awww", Jomo exclaimed.
"Weh ceut propbly teak ah trip laitah on", Aluna assured Jomo.
Then came up that thing of gold streets again...
...Moyo, then going on age 10, asked, "Ouncle Omran! Ouncle Omran! Con ya breeng bock sume gold froam da streets?! Ah lot ov et?!...Dot es, ef dey hov eextah dey doon't need!".
"Hah hah hah, Moyo, meh deeah nephew", Omran laughed. "De streets en Ameeikah doun't hov gold. Dot es just ah sayen. I bet all ovah de wold dey say dot".
"Ha ha ha. Dot es fo shoua", Makori agreed.
"Oh", Moyo said as the rest of the adults had a good laugh.
"Soh dot meen animols en Ameerikah es poor den?", Kanja asked.
"Et doon't meen dot, Kanja", Aluna told her son. "Et es just da streets ah not mode ought ov gold".
Chanya, who had just turned 16, asked her Uncle Omran and Aunt Jiona if they would bring back lots of souvenirs.
Ruguru was going on age 17 then. He asked Uncle Omran if he could get him some nostalgic memorabilia to display in his room.
"I theenk I hov ta meek ah list ov wot eveah one wants", Omran chuckled.
"Con ya breeng meh ah Babie en Ken poodle dolls?...Pleeeezzze?...Ond ah Babie en Ken cah fa dem ta ride en?", Jabet, who was not quite age 7, asked.
Finally, Aluna said, "Ah-kae, meh coubs. Ya meekin ya Ouncle Omran feel lok Sonta Beah ot Chreesmas time".
As for Chege, Makena and Kioni, they were already adults and out on their own, and the two oldest married and raising cubs, thus they were not present at the time.
When Omran, Jiona and their cubs took their trip to the U.S., their destination spot was what was formally Colonial Virginia, which included tourist attractions in Jamestown, Williamsburg, Hampton and Newport News.
Upon their arrival at the Patrick Henry Airport, Omran and Jiona acquired a rental car for transportation. Originally, the car rental agent, Jerry Raccoon, was going to rent them a then brand new 1964 Chevy Impala Super Sport convertible, two door in bright red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmIV_VKWd4
WOW! The mongooses didn't see very many cars THIS big in Kenya...This was some car.
However, it was not like the 1957 Vauxhall station wagon that Omran and Jiona has back in Kenya where their cubs can ride in the back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_GNirf1A4
"Woll, Jehree", Omran said to Jerry Raccoon. "Dees cah es nice. Bot do ya hov aeh steshon wogon?".
"Weh do hov aw faw coubs. We need mah room", Jiona added.
Jerry Raccoon, being American, was not use to the Kenyan dialect, and had to ask Omran and Jiona to repeat themselves so he can understand.
"Weh need ah steshon wagon", Omran said more slowly. "Do ya hov woun avilibul?".
"Oh oh, a station wagon", Jerry Raccoon acknowledged as Omran nodded 'yes'. "I have one here you and the wife will like".
"I weel kneow ef I lok et unce I see et" (w/o the dialect - I will know if I like it once I see it), Omran replied as Jerry Raccoon took the mongooses to see the station wagon, which was a 1964 Pontiac Safari station wagon in white with a red interior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pZ3kgb8hk
Omran and Jiona were thrilled with the car, and for the cubs; Issa, Hali, Elea and Anasa, there was waaaayy more room than what their Vauxhall wagon back in Kenya has.
After discussing it with Jiona, Omran Mongoose said to Jerry Raccoon, "Weel teek et".
From Omran's voice tone and body language, Jerry Raccoon understood Omran saying, "We'll take it".
Omran and Jiona had already made the exchange of an amount of Kenyan shillings for U. S. dollars...So once the paper work was done, rental deposit paid, and a brief period of instruction from Jerry Raccoon about the car, the mongooses were on their way.
To begin with, Omran was not use to the big powerful 389 cubic inch V8...Being use to how you have to give that Vauxhall the gas to make it go, Omran stepped on the accelerator, then >SCREEEEEEAACH< the rear tires spun, then Omran let off the gas.
"Oh Omran. I maybe should have told you", Jerry Raccoon said. "This car has more power than you're use to. Go easy for a while until you get use to it".
"I theenk I weel goh easie, now dot I kneow", Omran replied. "Des cah DO hov da geet up en goh".
Another issue Omran had to get use to was that in the U. S., traffic moves on the opposite side of the road...on the right...The fact that the station wagon they rented has the steering wheel on the left should have reminded him of that...But after a few misses of close calls of almost having a head on collision, Omran remembered to keep the car to the right lanes of the roads.
Omran, Jiona and the cubs did not go extravagant on lodging. They were not of that 'jet set' crowd who quickly goes broke staying at a Ramada Inn day after day. During their stay in the Hanpton Roads area, they rented a room at a boarding house in downtown Newport News, with meals included, which was ran by a bear couple. Once settled in, they then visited places such as Virginia Beach, Ocean View Amusemant Park in Norfolk (it was the first time the cubs had ever been to an amusement park), as well as various other places of interest. One time they took a trip across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which has 19 kilometers (12 miles) of bridge roadway, a highrise on the Eastern Shore side, and two tunnels. It had just been completed and opened for service only weeks earlier. The family spent the rest of the day cruising around and stopping at places of interest on Eastern Shore, then spent that night in that big Pontiac station wagon parked near a beach on the ocean side. Come morning, the family spent some time at the beach before heading back across to Norfolk, then back to Newport News.
The Newport News Drydock and Shop Yard was quite an impressive sight. Then later in the day, the family noticed the Chesapeake and Ohio railway yard. Omran and Jiona decided to park the car just down the road from where the tobacco warehouses are to let the cubs watch the locomotives switch cars, which were mostly coal hoppers...However,these locomotives were different from the steam engines the family has always seen back in Kenya.
"Luke ot dot", younger son Anasa exclaimed, pointing at a GP-9 on it's way to couple up to some cars. "Wot konda eengine es dat?".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D35yz7i2GI
"How doose dat eengine evon goh?", older son Hali asked, noticing the locomotive did not have a boiler, drive linkages and the large set of drive wheels typical of a steam engine.
"Et doon't evon hov ah coal tendah", Exclaimed older sister Issa.
"Deen how do dae keep da fiah box goen?", younger sister Elea asked.
"Dot eengine has a motah en it", Omran said, upon noticing the sound of the diesel engine in the locomotive.
"Ya meen lok da wey trucks ond cahs hov a motah?", Jiona asked her husband, Omran.
"Yees", Omran replied. "Ya con heah et evah time one ov dos eengines goh".
Their first time seeing diesel locomotives in action was certainly fascinating to them, and it wasn't long before a Richmond bound passenger train cruised by on it's way out of downtown Newport News.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railw...
Jiona commented, "Dat eengine lukes lok ah long von truck wit ah shot hoot en frunt" (w/o the dialect - That engine looks like a long van truck with a short hood in front).
After watching the trains a while, the family rode up the road to a seafood and ice cream drive in they've been noticing for the past few days. The drive in had a small dining room in which the family took up six of the eight seats it had. The 21 shrimp-n-fries basket looks good, so that's what everyone ordered. Jane porcupine, the waitress who originally waited on the family could not understand them due to the Kenyan dialect. But Fredia, an African-American Hyena who was the other waitress was able to understand  the dialect of the mongooses. Thus the drive in's owner, Montgomery Penguin, assigned Freida to take their order.
The shrimp-n-fries baskets were really good, and Omran and Jiona even let the cubs get some ice cream for desert.  It was getting late by the time everyone was finished eating, so the family headed back to the boarding house for the evening.
As has always been with most of the relatives, Omran and Jiona believed in attending church on Sundays. Early one Sunday morning, Leslie Otter, a long time tenant of the boarding house, told the family of a Fundamental Southern Baptist church in Hampton he use to attend years ago.
"When you get to New Market Plaza with those huge balls on the signs, turn right at the circle", Leslie Otter explained. "After you cross Bethel Road, look for it on your left. It sits back on a residentual street. You'll know it by a fleet of blue and white church busses they have...If you get to WGH radio station, you've gone too far".
Omran and Jiona thanked Leslie, then headed out with the cubs in that big Pontiac wagon to the church.
Upon the family's arrival was the first time they realized how big the church was. Services were soon to begin as the mongooses made their way up the grand front steps. But once inside the front doors, they were in for a rude suprise. One of the church deacons, a very well groomed great dane, meet the mongooses in the vestibule adjacent to the auditorium.
The great dane did not offer to shake paws, but instead told Omran and Jiona mongoose, "Sir. Mame. I'm sorry, but this church does not allow African species animals. There's First Shilo Baptist Church down the road, and they'd be glad to have you".
Omran and Jiona were appalled in disbelief over what they just heard...and coming from a church deacon no less...The cubs did not like it either.
On the way back out into the parking lot, Omran retorted, "Dae call DEESE de house ov de Lawd? All weh got froam heah wass ta geet ahffeended".
"Deese es moe lok da house ov de Deevil...Et es Saiton's house", Issa exclaimed.
Jiona assured, "Dae weel geet dae bod kamah sumedae. Et goh 'rond, et weel come 'rond" (w/o the dialect - They will get their bad karma someday. It goes 'round, it will come 'round).
The family recalled seeing where First Shilo Baptist Church is, so it was there they went for Sunday morning service. There, the mongooses received a warm, friendly welcome. And not only were there African-American genets, meerkats, cheetahs, servals, aardwolves, mongooses, hyenas and such, but there were also European and American indigenous species such as; raccoons, otters bears, weasels, foxes a few dogs, a wolf, a family of wolverines, and there were even a family of lesser red pandas, a clouded leopard couple and an Oriental civet. The pastor there was Revren Jerome Holmes Aardwolf, who preached that day on "pardon or judgement are received as to how you give them out to others".  And needless to say, Omran and Jiona's family made many friendship accquaintences there that Sunday morning.
There's no telling what the pastor of that church that turned the mongooses away preached that day...You probably don't wanna know.
Back at the boarding house that afternoon, Leslie Otter was very disappointed to hear that the church he had attended years ago was now run by bigots.
Leslie told Omran and Jiona, "If I had known that, I would have recommended a different church...It has been years since I've been there, and I had no idea they have become that way".
In the weeks to follow, the family would stop by places to get souvenirs to bring back to relatives back in Kenya... They even stopped in at G. C. Murphey's Department Store in the New Market Plaza (the plaza with the huge balls on the signs) to get those Barbie and Ken poodle dolls Jabet said she wanted, and the Mattel toy car that was made to go with the poodle dolls.  G. C. Murphey's even had a restaurant area where the mongooses went for lunch that day. However, the best and most nostalgic stuff was found at the yard sales they went to.
A few weeks later, the mongooses decided they would like to see Florida before it was time to go back to Kenya. So one morning, they checked out of the boarding house in Newport News and packed that big Pontiac wagon with the stuff they collected (by now they were glad they did not take that super sport convertible Jerry Raccoon was going to rent to them). The animals they had gotten to know at the boarding house wished the family a safe and happy trip, then they headed out to Florida.
There was no I-95 going all the way through back in those days. The way from Hampton Roads, Virginia to Florida was via U. S. Route 17 and U.S. Route 1. The beginning of that journey took them 8 kilometers (5 miles)across the James River Bridge...the original two lane bridge with it's narrow rickety roadway and it's steel pipe railings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_River_Bridge#/media...
Along the way, the family stopped for a day in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. That night, they slept in the car parked near the beach, then continued on their way.
Although that Pontiac wagon was a very nice car, Omran did notice one disadvantage about it...It did not get anywhere near the fuel economy his Vauxhall back home got...But of course, in those days, gasoline was also cheaper in the U. S. than in many parts of Africa.
At a gas station on Route 17 in Georgia, the family stopped in to fuel up the car. Upon driving over the airline that rings the bell in the station as they pulled up to the pumps, a young male opossum came out and asked, "Will it be regular or Ethel, Sir?".
"Reeglah woot beh aw-kae", Omran answered.
"I cain't understand you there", the opossum replied.
"Reeglah es goot. Reeglah. Ond feil et all da wah, pleese", Omran said.
The opossum, sensing the mongooses were not from the U. S., retorted, "If  y'all gonna come to this country, why don'tcha learn to speak right?".
"Hey, Clint! That was uncalled for!", a young male raccoon co-worker called out.
"I cain't help it, Jim! This mongoose is mumblin' at me!", Clint Opossum called out to Jimmy Raccoon.
"That's still no way to be treatin' a customer!", Jimmy Raccoon retorted to Clint while collecting from a fox for fill-up.
Jimmy Raccoon briefly paused, and said to the fox, "Have a good, Sir. Thank you for stopping by", just before he drove away.
Then Jimmy Raccoon came over to lecture Clint Opossum, which began going into an argument.
Omran Mongoose was about ready to drive off and stop at another station down the road...Omran also felt like getting out of the car and popping that opossum in the nose, but Omran didn't want a deportation cutting the vacation short.
Jimmy Raccoon finally sent Clint Opossum away from the Mongoose Family's car.
"I apologize for all of this.", Jimmy Raccoon said to the mongooses, "How can I help you?".
"Weel, I woot lok ta geet ah feil-up ov reeglah", Omran answered the raccoon.
"Fill-up of regular?", Jimmy Raccoon asked to be sure he heard Omran Mongoose correctly.
"Yees please", Omran said.
As Jimmy Raccoon was pumping the gas, another motorist pulled in, which would keep Clint Opossum occupied from making 'any comments out of the peanut gallery'.
The car took a bit over 20 gallons.
"Clean your windshield and check your oil, Sir?", Jimmy Raccoon asked.
"Naw. All dat es goot, theink ya", Omran said.
"That will be four dollars and eighty two cents", Jimmy Raccoon said.
As Omran Mongoose paid Jimmy Raccoon, Jimmy again apologized for the actions of his opossum co-worker and thanked the mongooses for stopping by...The family was again on their way.  
The family finally entered Florida on the Route 17 bridge over the St. Mary's river.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB...
A short way into Florida, they stopped in at a welcome center that was giving away free cups of orange juice...the cubs especially liked the orange juice.
As the family continued along route 17 through Duval County in route toward Jacksonville, they noticed railroad tracks ran parallel off to the right from Route 17...They had also noticed a railway bridge off to the right back when they crossed the St. Mary's River. Eventually, a passenger train passed them, which had Seaboard Coast Line Railway markings.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LE...
"Dot's anothah won ov dos eengines weet ah motah en et", Hali said as the train went on past.
The Mongoose Family got lost for a while going through Jacksonville.
At some intersections where they had to wait on a traffic light, an African-American species animal, sometimes two or more, such as civets, mongooses, hyenas, meerkats, servals, etc, who were giving out pamphlets would approach the car and offer to shake paws with Omran and Jiona.
They would mention things like, "Heeeyyy, Bros. Remember. We all have a dream" or "Ay, Brothah. Ay, Sistah. Y-all keepin' the faith?"
"Don't forget, baby. A whisper ain't got no voice", a meerkat said at one of those intersections as he gave Omran a pamphlet titled, 'We shall not be judged by the species of our fur, but by the content of our character'.
 Youngest cub Anasa spoke up, "Dea aein't naw bebies weet ous...Weh ah coubs".
"Hey, cute", the meerkat chuckled.
A female genet with her two cubs, a male and a younger female, approached the car and gave out several pamphlets to Omran and Jiona's cubs.
"Aww, your cubs are so adorable", the mother genet complimented as her two cubs and the mongoose cubs waved to each other and began conversation.
Omran and Jiona thanked the genet mother for the compliment. Then there were horns of cars behind blowing.
Someone called out, "Hey Latisha! The light's green! Let them go, girl!".
"Hey y-all. See ya", the genet mother bided.
"Bein noce tauken ta ya" (w/o the dialect - Been nice talking to you), Jiona replied as Omran put the car in drive and continued on.
Omran eventually said to Jiona as he placed the pamphlet on the dashboard of the car, "Dae sem friendly ehnouf...Boot I doun't knaw wat theese es abeout".
"I doun't knaw eithah", Jiona replied as the family continued riding along the street.
Jiona noticed a political cartoon in one the pamphlets of a meerkat climbing a latter of success and telling a nearby golden retriever, "What do you mean 'not so fast'?".
It was agreed between Omran and Jiona to collect the pamphlets from the cubs until they can read through them and be sure the material content was okay for them.
Most of those animals such as foxes, bears, raccoons, coyotes dogs, otters, wolves, etc seemed to be ignoring the Momgoose Family riding around in that big, brand new, Pontiac station wagon. However, there were some animals such as  foxes, bears, raccoons, coyotes dogs, otters, wolves, etc who were standing for the cause along with the African-American animals.
At another traffic light, a jackal and a genet approached the car and offered the usual friendly paw shake and a pamphlet.
"We gotta stand strong for the cause, Brothah", The jackal proclaimed.
Omran finally asked, "Efra-one cooms ta ah cah. Wat es des abeout?".
"Hey, Homer. I cain't understand the first word dis cat's sayin'", The jackal told the genet.
"Weh not cats. Weh Mongooses", older son Hali called out from the back seat of the car.
Homer Genet told the jackal, "Dis bro say he don't know why everyone wana rap with them".
The jackal thought on that a few seconds, then took notice of the nice big car.
"You ain't one-a-doze doccca Thomas ain'tcha?", the jackal asked Omran.
"I es not ah doctah ov dae modacine", Omran assured the jackal. "I nevah bein tah mod scoul en meh lofe".
"Yo, hold up, Tyrone", Homer Genet said to the jackal.
"Sir", Homer Genet addressed Omran Mongoose. "Y-all ain't from dis country is you?
"Naw. Weh not. Weh ah froam Keenya", Omran answered.
"Weh ah heah on vahcation", Jiona added.
"Oh...Okay", Homer Genet replied.
When the light turned green, Omran Mongoose told Homer Genet and Tyrone Jackal, "Deh lot es green. Weh gotta goh neow".
"Enjoy y-all's stay", Homer Genet called out as the car pulled away.
"Y-all be cool", Tyrone Jackal called out.
The mongoose family still was making no progress finding their way around Jacksonville.    
"Deese Jockseenveil es whass din drivin en Naihobi" (w/o the dialect - This Jacksonville is worse than driving in Nairobi), Omran mentioned upon pulling up to a complicated intersection and not knowing which way was the right way to turn.
Jiona suggested stopping at a convenience store and getting a Jacksonville map. So the next convenience store that came into view, they pulled in. The cubs wanted to get some candy, so everyone came into the store.
While Omran was picking out a map, and Jiona was with the cubs picking out candy, two other mongooses greeted Omran and introduced themselves as Isaac and Floyd.
"Ya goin' to the march, Brother?", Floyd Mongoose asked Omran Mongoose.
"I dah not knaw abeout des motch ya speek ov", Omran replied as Jiona and the cubs approached.
"You don't know? The Civil Rights march, Baby", Isaac Mongoose exclaimed.
"Weel...I om not eh bebie. I om ah grawn up Mongoose lok YAW awh", Omran corrected Isaac.
"Whaaat?...You all talk funny", Isaac Mongoose said.
"Wait a minute, Isaac", said Floyd and then asked Omran, "You from somewhere else?...not here in America".
"Weh froam Keenya", Omran replied.
"Deese es da seecon time weh was aust dat. Wat es dis abeout?", Jiona asked.
The two African-American mongooses, Isaac and Floyd, explained the Civil Rights Movement that was going on at that time. Also at that time, not far south of Jacksonville, a bold lion who was a Civil Rights leader was visiting St. Augustine, Marvin Kingsley Lion.
Omran then told Isaac and Floyd, "Weh ah not heah en Ameeikah fah dat popess. Weh coom heah on vahcation".
"Weh ah free ween da Briteesh gehv Keenya et's indopondence", Jiona added.
"OH LAWWWD! HA HA HA HA HA! Why da British wanna free anyone!?" Isaac laughed.
"Yo, Isaac. Everything's cool, Bro", said Floyd.
Isaac and Floyd then expressed wishes to the family for a safe trip and a good time. After the family and the two African-American mongooses bid a friendly farewell, Omran chose the map they needed, everyone got snacks and drinks, and were on their way.  
With the map, the family finally found their way out of Jacksonville, and was again travelling where they intended to go, and not a day too soon. That day the Meerkat Family was in Jacksonville was on June the 6th, and on June 7th, a tropical depression came through the Jacksonville area from across the state bringing some bad weather...The meerkats just did miss it by one day.  
Because it was already getting into the month June, the Florida heat was about like that of the Kenyan temperatures the family has always known. With a little fumbling and trying out different knobs, Omran was finally able to figure out how to operate the car's A/C...something very few of the cars in Kenya had. With the windows up and the A/C on, riding in that spacious, heavy, smooth riding Pontiac wagon was riding in comfort...And some pretty good tunes could be found on the radio too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7RLe-m2zA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzjfGF6MiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUVicdW7Ew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC048zJHec8
The cub had a good laugh from that last song.

When the family was having breakfast at a cozy little restaurant in Titusville early in the morning of June the 8th, they heard from some of the other customers that the first Gemini rocket (with no animal occupants) was going to be test launched later that morning. None of the family had ever seen a rocket go up before, and from Titusville everyone would get a good view of the launch. The family stayed around Titusville that morning and listened to reports about the launch preparations on the car radio. And sure enough, a few hours later, at 11:00 am, Gemini one was launched.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB...
"Dea et es!", Omran, being the first to see it, pointed it out.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB...
It was a success and the cubs were very excited to see their first rocket launch as Gemini one ascended higher and higher with the engine's big blaze of fire behind it.
"DA ROCKEET! DA ROCKEET!", older son Hali gleefully proclaimed.
"WOW!", said younger son Anasa.
"Es sah cool!", older daughter Issa said.
"Et es", younger daughter Elea added. "Lok ot et goh".
Comments and expressions of awe from other animals watching the launch could also be heard.
"Dot es ah veh-ee grond site", Jiona said as she was taking pictures.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB...
Needless to say, Omran and Jiona took turns getting lots of pictures of Gemini one until it was out of range of their camera...They knew those pictures were going to be the most impressive off all to the relatives back home.  

Other places the family visited in Florida were Tampa, St. Petersburg, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami (Back in 1964, Miami was not the dangerous, high crime center it would eventually become 20 to 25 years later)...At one point, they even drove out to Key West and back. During that time, the family seldom checked in at a motel. There was plenty of room in that spacious Pontiac station wagon, and plenty of campsites and beachside parking to sleep for the night.
This was also about the time the all new Ford Mustangs were coming out on the roads.
Everyone thought those were such cool cars, and the cubs; Issa, Hali, Elea and Anasa even made a contest among themselves of counting who can be first spotting the most Ford Mustangs.
Once in a while, Omran and Jiona would hear, "Ah seh ah Moostong!".
"I sah et fost".
"Naw ya deed not. I deed".
Toward the end of June, the vacation had eventually drawn to a close. On the family's last day in the U. S., they rode back up to Tampa where they were to turn the station wagon back in at the Tampa Airport Hertz car rental location. There were still a few hours before they had to catch their flight back home, and they had noticed the last time they were in Tampa, The Meeting House Restaurant on the corner of Howard and Bristol Avenue. That is where the family had a late lunch, then afterwards, some home made ice cream the restaurant was well known for which was really good.
A few hours later, Omran and Jiona turned the car back in, and shortly thereafter the family boarded their flight back to Kenya.
Once they were back home, there were lots photos to show, and lots of stories to tell to the relatives. And there were souvenirs and nostalgic stuff brought back for everyone...And you should have seen how happy Jabet was when she was presented with her Barbie and Ken poodle dolls and the Mattel toy car to go with them.
...Occasionally, there would be a reference for laughs made from time to time about, "Da gold on de streets en Ameeikah".  
  
As the cubs would mature in age, Makori and Aluna allowed them to travel to the Kikuyu village to visit relatives who resided there. As for the cubs who were not yet old enough to be driving the family car, it was a bit far to be walking...But the cubs did have bicycles, which even by bicycle it was a pretty good haul out to there and back.
Early December of 1964, Kanja wanted to visit Uncle Omran and Aunt Jiona, Uncle Tambo and Aunt Sadika and the cousins at the Kikuyu village. This was a couple of weeks before Kanja Mongoose was to turn 12 years of age. In December of 1964, Moyo was still 10 years of age. Makori and Aluna gave to OK for Kanja to go to the village... However, because of Kanja being mentally impaired, Mom and Dad always required older siblings to accompany him to keep him safe out on the highway, and to keep him out of trouble at the village. Older brother Ruguru, about to turn 18 on January 15th a month and a half away, and older sister Chanya, then age 15, were to accompany Kanja that day. Both older siblings were old enough to use the family car to drive there, but Dad needed the car that day to take a trip to town to see a realtor about a linsang couple who wanted to make a down payment on one of the investment properties...And the old truck that use to be used years ago to haul debt delinquent storage unit and warehouse contents from liquidation auctions needed brake work. Oldest siblings Chege, Makena and Kioni had vehicles, but they were already married, had their own places, and the two oldest siblings and their spouses were already raising cubs, with Chede's oldest daughter already age 13, and oldest son already age 11...So...It looked like Ruguru, Chanya and Kanja would be riding the bicycles out to the village, and that it was. During the ride there, Kanja's bike had to have the helper wheels because he had still not yet developed the skill to keep a bicycle balanced without falling over.
At the village, the relatives were delighted to welcome Ruguru, Chanya and Kanja. And Kanja enjoyed playing with the young cubs his age. During their visit, Jamal Genet, a resident of the village, came riding up the long, dirt lane leading to the village on a Honda dirt bike with a small bundle of eight foot long, 2"x4" lumber he had bought from a local sawmill, which he had tied across the back of the bike...The wide load of boards would cause the overloaded dirt bike to teeter-totter side to side as Jamal Genet had to struggle while riding at a slow pace to keep the bike upright.
"LOOK!", Kanja Mongoose exclaimed with excitement. "Jomal es mekin ah aeiplane wif es mootah cycle!"
Realizing that to Kanja, the 2"x4"s looked like 'airplane wings' on Jamal's dirt bike, Ruguru and Chanya explained to Kanja that Jamal Genet was hauling a load of lumber to build something with, and that his dirt bike was all he had to carry it on.
"I got enothah laud heah ought laust" (w/o the dialect - I got another load here at last), Jamal Genet said as he shut down the bike, then got off and greeted Ruguru, Chanya and Kanja.
Jamal did not have to put the bike's kickstand down...Four feet of  lumber overhanging on each side did a pretty good job of stopping it from falling over. When Ruguru told Jamal that Kanja thought the lumber was airplane wings on the bike, Jamal thought that was cute as he let out with a pretty good chuckle. Jamal then led the three mongoose siblings to an area of the village where he showed them a structure being built that was not any larger than a two car garage. It was so far, it was a wood deck supported off the ground by rocks used as footing piers, and it already had most of the wall framing erected.
"Dees gonta beh da hoose fah meh an meh wife. An et gonta beh ah modreen beilt hoose", Jamal said, referring to how he was using modern building materials and modern construction methods.
"Elewa gonta hov awh cub soon", Jamal added, followed by congratulations from Ruguru and Chanya...and then a slightly delayed congratulation from Kanja.    
Of course, at one point during the visit, Chief Abasi Kalu Mongoose, knowing Kanja's 12th birthday will be the 15th of that month, began discussing the prospect with Kanja about getting "circumcised like a true Kikuyu"...and it was a good thing Ruguru and Chanya were with Kanja that day. Kanja absolutely had not the foggiest clue of what circumcision even was, in spite of being in the company of mongooses, genets and civets who were circumcised. Ruguru and Chanya noticed that their younger brother was beginning to get talked into being circumcised by the village chief when the day comes a couple of weeks later when he turns 12 years of age. When the conversation Abasi Mongoose had with Kanja was finished, Ruguru and Chanya had their own talk with Kanja.
Older sister Chanya asked Kanja, "Kanja. Je, unafahamu ni tohara?" (Kanja. Do you know what is circumcision?).
"Uhh...Sijui" (Uhhh...I don't know), Kanja answered.
Older brother Ruguru asked Kanja, "Do you knoo wah da malls heia haf dare pee-pees shoween all de time?"
"Meh theenk soh", said Kanja. "Ah dae stickin dae pee-pees ought ot us?...Soh dae pee-pees con look ot us".
"Augh!", Chanya let out, as she could not believe what she just heard.
This conversation was also outside, within earshot of some of the villagers who began giggling and chuckling at the answer Kanja just gave his older brother.
Chanya then explained to Kanja what circumcision is, what is done during the procedure and how a penis is after it is done.
"Do you want ya pee-pee ta haf no mah sheef fo heem ta hide en?", Ruguru asked Kanja.
And the answer was loud and clear.
"HAPANA!" (NO!), Kanja loudly exclaimed as he tucked his tail between his legs and covered his genital area with both paws.
"LEEF MEH PEE-PEE ELONE! LEEF MEH PEE-PEE ELONE!", Kanja cried out. "TUUACHE!" (LEAVE IT ALONE!).
By now, many of the villagers came out of their mud walled thatch huts, plank board shacks and corrugated tin houses to find out what was going on, then could not help giggling, chuckling and laughing at Kanja's display of drama.
"LEEF MEH PEE-PEE ELONE!", Kanja continued to cry out with his tail tucked and his paws over his genital area.
Even Chief Abasi Mongoose, although disappointed Kanja will now not be circumcised, had to make an effort to hold back from giggling...But Chief Abasi broke out giggling then laughing...Even Chanya and Ruguru were laughing by now.
After Chanya and Ruguru got Kanja calmed down, Chief Abasi said to Kanja, "Kanja. Ef ya doon't want ta beh socoomsized, den we well not do et...Okee?"
"Okeeeeee", Kanja timidly replied, assured it was not going to be done to him.
Back home, Dad, Mom, Moyo, Jomo and Jabet got a good laugh when Chanya and Ruguru explained how the visit to the village went that day...One thing was for sure. Kanja Jais Mongoose may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but he made it very clear he does NOT want to be circumcised.  


On Saturday, April 17, 1966, exactly two weeks before Moyo's 12th birthday, Moyo took a bicycle ride out to visit relatives in the Kikuyu village. At the village, there was the usual fellowship, conversation and good times between Moyo, his Uncle Omran Jais Mongoose (Makori's youngest brother), Aunt Jiona (Omran's wife) and cousins Issa (f), Hali (m), Elea (f) and Anasa (m). And there was also Aunt Sadika on Mom's side of the family, who married Tambo Magoro Mongoose (a Kikuyu) and resided in the village where they raised their sons and daughters, Cousin Zahur (m), Cousin Wenda (f) and Cousin Ayah (f).
During this particular visit, the village leader, Chief Abasi Kalu Mongoose, was aware that Moyo would become 12 years of age two weeks after that day. Knowing this, Chief Abasi Mongoose invited Moyo to take a walk with him to discuss some things.
During the walk, Chief Abasi mentioned to Moyo, "Wewe hivi karibuni kuingia utu uzima" (You will soon enter adulthood).
Moyo replied, "Ndiyo" (Yes).
"Wewe ni sehemu Kikuyu katika jamaa ya baba yako" (You are part Kikuyu in your father's family), Abasi Mongoose added.
"Ndiyo, mimi ni" (Yes, I am), Moyo further replied.
"Je kuchukuliwa akiwa ametahiriwa?" (Have you considered being circumcised?), the Chief asked.
Moyo simply replied, "Sitaki kufanya hivyo" (I do not want to do it).
Abasi Mongoose mentioned, "Baada ya mwaka wako kumi na mbili ina siku za nyuma, wewe huru nafasi hiyo" (After your ten have two years has past, you loose that opportunity).
Moyo still replied, "Sitaki kufanya hivyo".
The thought of 'little pee-pee' no longer having it's sheath to hide it's head in and cover up in did not appeal to Moyo in any way, shape or form...Kikuyu custom or no Kikuyu custom.
After talking with Moyo a while longer, Chief Abasi Mongoose became thoroughly convinced that Moyo was adamant he did not want to be circumcised, so Abasi accepted Moyo's decision in the matter and no longer pushed the issue.
After Abasi and Moyo walked back to the village, Cousin Hali, who by then was 16, asked Moyo, "Da cheef tak to you 'baut dae pee-pee sheeth theeng?"
"Yees e did", Moyo answered his cousin. "Ya knah meh boafdae es Mae fost" (w/o the dialect - You know my birthday is May 1st).
"Two weeks fom todae...Wat deed you tell to dae cheef?", Hali then asked.
"I seid no", said Moyo. "I lok meh pee-pee da weh et es".
Hali then mentioned to Moyo, "I hof to oddmit, seense dae coot meh sheef ween I wass tweeov, I meesed hoavin et dare...Meh pee-pee doas not feel de som wit-ought et".
As Moyo and his family had always noticed, of those relatives who reside in the village, Aunt Sadika, like her parents and siblings in Mom's family, and Uncle Omran, like his grand-parents, parents and siblings in Dad's family, were never circumcised...Both had grown up away from any tribal village, and were already adults and expecting their first cubs by the time they moved to the Kikuyu village...And already as adults, the ceremony would not count as fulfilling the tribal custom anyway.

Back in the earlier years, there had been those visits to the village when an older sibling was about to turn 12 years of age. And like before their younger brother Moyo, the village chief had that same discussion with the older siblings. And like before their younger brother Moyo, they too had declined to have it done.
And in early September of 1967, the chief approached Jomo about it...and approached Jabet about it in August of 1969, and both of their answers were the same..."Sitaki kufanya hivyo" (I do not want to do it).  
  
These were some of the African pop hit songs of that 1950s - 1960 time era...Jean Bosco Mwenda was popular for a while there in Kenya in the 1950s.
The family had an old, 1933, Philco model 38, battery powered, farm radio before the days the home had electrical service
               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQR2HTwP8Y
Jean Bosco Mwenda - Mama na Mwana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJwwRFZtUc

Liwa Ya Liongue Arsène (Franco) - Franco & L'O.K. Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kml06wz1lLs

Mama Kilio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YkGInD0MoA

Trio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeD4uB0-uw

Nabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1a_tZywUM

Kosilika Te Doudou / Sengola (Kabaselé) - African Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgcDHvtOVo

Masanga ( instrumental ) - Jean Bosco Mwenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkJFfn6avSo

Sisi Wakenya...
...Coincidentally, "kuja hapa" is said at 0:30, 1:37 & 2:41...LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2RCJ93sk
In fact, a few times during the time Kanja, Moyo and Jomo were cubs, they would hear this song on the radio and hear those lyrics, "kuja hapa".
The cubs would ask Aluna, "Mamma! Deet Great Coozin Bahassa mek dat song?!".
The cubs had already heard of the time two generations ago, on Mom's side of the family, when their Grand Dad Nangwaya had flogged his Cousin Barasa with a piece of woody vine for calling Grand Ma Saura Binturong a kuja hapa.
Of course little Kanja would jump around with excitement, proclaiming, "Coozin Bahasa song! Coozin Bahasa song!"
Mamma would always assure her three youngest male cubs, "Coozin Bahasa hat nauthin' ta do weet writin' dat song".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2RCJ93sk

Rumba Kwetu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJrt6CFxZc

OK Jazz & Franco - Musica Tellema (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZ9GU_HxpI

Naweli boboto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpIpgZYcpg

Ilamo Marie (Franco) - Franco & L'O.K. Jazz 27-7-1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MAMBsCWKA

FomFom - ET Mensah & HIs Tempos Band Ghana 1950's High Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbgnAJ-op5k

K Rhino Boys Pene Langu Swahili Dance Columbia EO 460 Kenya 78 rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAwogsRlQ4U

Witts & Party Columbia EO 335 Oriti Jahera Kenya 78 rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmPDMD_g9Po

Chura We
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBqF7ZiZ1so

Mawonso Mpamba (Déchaud) - African Jazz 1960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4l3Ne3nSko

Jipakieni Katika Meli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNNOVk1pvc

Mazowea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyNyVzkAeY

Ndege Wote Wameruka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqgqutMLtMc

SUGARBUSH by Josef Marais, recorded in 1946 South African Folk Song
This was a favorite of the oldest siblings, Chege (age 11 in 1946) and Makena (age 7 in 1946), when they were little cubs...Kioni was only age 2 when this song was released...In fact, when that song played, Chege and Makena would dance around and clap their paws with the clapping in that song;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg8BNliL3fc

KAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953
This song use to give Ruguru nightmares when he was age 6 whenever it played on the radio during the night at the time it was released;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEBzhBLdHc


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Here is the part back in the early 1900s...Back in that day and time, what is known today as Kenya was known then as British East Africa;
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It is December 1915, in what is to be known a generation later as Trukana County of Rift Valley Province in northwest Kenya, that Nangwaya Tatazu Mongoose and his wife, Saura Tatazu Binturong (formally Saura Whan Binturong), are raising a family of three cubs;
Two daughters, Dalila who recently turned age 7, and Shani who turned age 5 a month earlier, and a son Jaramogi who is age 2 years, 6 months.
Although the cubs are 50% binturong / 50% African banded mongoose, they still go by the last name of Mongoose.
Nangwaya Mongoose and his family are Pokot (Pakoot) by tribal identity. A few other African banded mongooses in the region, including some in-laws of the family, as well as some related species animals, are Kikuyu by tribal identity...And although the national identity for all animals was considered by the U.K. in the year 1915 as British, they claimed for themselves "Kenyan" as that identity.
During the early years of Nangwaya and Saura's marriage, home was a one room hut with walls made from dead tree branches and mud with a thatch roof, which was on the edge of a Pokot tribal village.
About the time Nangwaya and Saura were married 9 years earlier (year 1906), some members of Nangwaya Mongoose's family would refer to Saura Binturong as a "kuja hapa", Swahili for 'a come here', implying that her family was from Asia (northern Bangladesh to be exact) and not from Kenya.
But other members of Nangwaya Mongoose's family, especially Nangwaya, got on to those family members who were referring to Saura Binturong as a "kuja hapa" and got that stopped in a timely manner...However, back in 1906, shortly before Nangwaya and Saura were married, Nangwaya had to threaten to "opon da con a whup-oss" (open a can of whip-ass) on his cousin Barasa over calling Saura Binturong a "kuja hapa". But Cousin Barasa did not heed Nangwaya's warning until Nangwaya finally cut a four foot piece of thick climbing vine off of a tree, then found Barasa, then flogged the living Hell out of Barasa with that piece of thick vine...and at one point, chasing after Barasa and continuing to flog him as he ran from Nangwaya. When Nangwaya Mongoose got done, Barasa was one hurting mongoose with flogging whelps all over him...That was just the attitude adjustment Barasa Mongoose needed to quit calling his cousin Nangwaya's then future wife to be a "kuja hapa".    
Since that day and time, Saura Binturong and her family are accepted as family by Nangwaya Mongoose's family. "Kuja hapa" had long give way to "Hakuna Matata" (no worries).  

English is the official language spoken in Kenya, which is also spoken by the family, although some Swahili is heard on occasion in the Mongoose Family's conversations.  

BTW, Nangwaya and Saura are expecting a new arrival who Saura is pregnant with as they enter the year 1916.
According to both Pokot and Kikuyu tribal customs, male and female circumcisions are ceremonially preformed on cubs at age 12...However, Nangwaya Mongoose and his siblings were born and raised in a remote rural area far away from any village, and by the time Nangwaya's family relocated near a village, Nangwaya Mongoose and his siblings were already becoming adults...thus Nangwaya as well as his siblings were never circumcised.
Nangwaya, recalling how he and his siblings were ostracized by many of the villagers over not being circumcised, discussed the matter with his wife, Saura Binturong, about the cubs undergoing the custom of circumcision when they reach age 12...But Saura, being from a country that never even heard of circumcision back in that day and time, wouldn't hear of it. So especially considering that both parents themselves were not circumcised, it was agreed between Nangwaya and Saura that Dalila, Shani, Jaramogi and the cub on the way would not be circumcised either...That's a decision the cubs can make for themselves when they become adults.
At some point in time, Nangwaya and Suara moved with the cubs to not very far north of the city of Eldoret, where Nangwaya got work as a seasonal farm worker...thus the family were no longer residing in the Pokot village...Nor were they any longer residing in Turkana County...Eldoret is about 800 kilometers (500 miles) to the south of the local homeland, and although Nangwaya and Suara did not have a car, they were able to get a ride to Eldoret with a friend who had an old, beat up, stake side truck.    

This is also a day and time the family witnessed modern innovations being bought into the country by the British such as railroads, electrical power and decent hard clay gravel roads.

The first world war is also going on at this time. The Mongoose Family, and friends who they know, haven't seen any fighting in their homeland. But they have heard of fighting going on in the countries north of them.    \t


These were songs that were around when Nangwaya Mongoose and Saura Binturong were raising; Dalila (12-19-1908 f), Shani (11-14-1910 f), Jaramogi (1-21-1913 m), Aluna (6-30-1916 f), Ohon (7-10-1917 m), Lusala (9-27-1918 m) and Sadika (12-23-1920 f).
The family didn't have a radio, but they have occasionally been in places that either had a radio or a cylindrical record Phonograph;
                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkVCvqR4aE          

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptAlF8g5_Q

Boire Comma Mo Boire - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPRidQFhTL8

Ohse Nta Ma Qua (Highlife) (Congo)
When Nangwaya and Saura's youngest cub, Sadika (one of Moyo's aunts), was still little, she use to enjoy dancing up a jig to this song;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPXAMB2lsh0&index=1...

Masanga (Swahilli) (Belgian Congo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXlBjneDwA

Mwanangu Lala (Swahilli Lullaby) (Kenya)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALWIlf_Sc0

Mbira music master piece Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUEhjuH4

Music based on The System of the Mbira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsG2W7Z_d0

Kahira (Good Fortune) - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcgZCQsVLTg

Jubillee Anthem - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM8RWW9-YdU&index=2...

Miyelo Bebe (Shangaan Dance) - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISHObPDji4

Mbiriviri - Simon Mashoko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyp1KbY6R7E

Aici Na Wawee - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhdy6hjFDos

Amanxilla - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDHQX6EPyo

Napesi Yo Mbongo (Rumba Lingala) - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZKBfU2tLBI

Ibani (Nigeria) - BARA SANABO BARA by Richard Abe Brown Band 1930s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NM_QT9sEQ

Baba Oni Taxi - J.O. Oyesiku
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREw3mAptSM

Due to the British occupation of the country at that time, European music would also be played by local radio stations, or played on a cylindrical record phonograph in places such as stores and cafe's;
Palais de danse / Georgi Vintilescu 1912 TWO-STEP aus DAS AUTOLIEBCHEN 98 Jahre alte Schellackplatte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q_9hfb73o

harry fay everybody's doing it 1912, great classic ragtime song -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iz9lB3feKM

Harry Champion - I was olding Me Coconut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrdh4nkvIBE

Palais de Danse, Giorgi Vintilescu: Komm' in meine Liebeslaube (1911)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_IwUnOKFo

Will Terry "Everybody's Grumbling" British music hall Bert Courtney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxBMzi8qSiE

Early British Jazz: Manhattan Jazz Band (1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpabmdNaRg

Eric Borchard - Bagatelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsU2yc9O9w

In about the late 1920s, a cozy, not so small, night club spot, simply named 'The Club', opened for business on the southern outskirts of the city of Eldoret . It's main attraction was a highly polished, wooden dance floor. It also had a cafe' counter and dinning area where patrons could get meals, snacks, coffee, tea, or socialize over a cocktail or other mixed drink. Recorded dance music was played through two large, amplified, wooden cabinet housed speakers installed on opposite ends of the back wall.
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Records were played on an Electrola brand phonograph fitted with a transducer microphone in place of the sound horn. The transducer mic was wired to a signal booster control box that sat on the DJ's stand near the phonograph, which from there, the booster box was wired to the speakers.
By the early 1930s, The Club had that aura of being that special place of fellowship where it's patrons have been friends for years. The Cub had that same kind of social atmosphere that one would expect to find among longtime patrons of places such as well known roller skating rinks and bowling alleys in a small town...Everyone knew everyone.
The following are just a few examples of what they played in those days;
The Blue Lyres (at the Dorchester Hotel, London) - My Silent Love - 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6-a1PAeyQ

Did you ever see a dream walking - Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxLe9Xk9ec

1933, Toujours L'amour, Barnabas von Geczy Orch. Hi Def, 78RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRbjNWmmJX8

Tonight Or Never - Harry Hudson's Riviera Dance Band - 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTJD0Fd99Q

You're Twice As Nice As That Girl In My Dreams - Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra - 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HqKsXbdWY
And you didn't have to be a wealthy snob to go there either, as it was by no means one of those fancy high society establishments...Everyone and anyone were welcome. In fact, even though The Club was owned by British species animals, they did not practice those discriminatory policies that would have barred indigenous species animals as patrons. Indigenous animals were as welcome as European species animals were. Even some of the animals on The Club's payroll were of indigenous species...Back in the day, it was common throughout the continent for indigenous species animals to be barred from entering certain establishments... However, depending who was working the cafe' counter at times, there would be some nights when indigenous species animals did find it difficult to be able to get alcohol beverages...If you were a mongoose, genet, lion, hyena, meerkat or of other indigenous species, buying alcohol at The Club was kind of a hit or miss.
On some Friday nights, indigenous animals residing in the farm workers shanty town north of Eldoret, and from other surrounding areas, would get the opportunity to get a ride out to the south of town with someone who had a car to have a wonderful evening at The Club... Most of them were at that seemingly magical young adult age when looking for the right mate to settle down with for life seemed like the most important thing in the world.
The Club had a pleasant atmosphere. It was not one of those rough neck joints. Of course there were those occasions when one of The Club's DJs, a European pine martin, would play a really rambunctious song, during which everyone had fun making lots of noise and getting the place hoppin' by clapping paws, stomping feet and thumping the wooden cafe' chairs on the wooden dinning area floor, all to the rhythm with the music.
Eric Borchard - Bugle call rag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9CrIqcq4Q
When Aluna Tatazu Mongoose was going on age 18, she and Makori Jais Mongoose had been in love with each other for some time...Like as was with Aluna's family, Makori had travelled the 800 kilometers away from the homeland to Eldoret with his mom, dad and siblings in search for work...Also like as was with Aluna's family, Makori's mom and dad didn't have a vehicle either, so Makori's family hitchhiked the 800 kilometers from the Lake Turkana area to Eldoret. The family then built a mud and thatch hut for shelter in a rural area outside of town.  
On many evenings after work, "dat sweet Kikuyu mongoose boy" as Aluna called Makori, would ride his old ragged bicycle, with no tire on the front rim, from his mom and dad's rural, mud and thatch home, to the wood and tin shack in the farm workers shanty town where Aluna still resided with her mom Saura Binturong, her dad Nangwaya Mongoose, and her younger siblings  Ohon (m), Lusala (m) and Sadika (f).
 On some Friday nights, Makori and Aluna would get a ride out to The Club with someone who had a car. In fact, it was at The Club, on a Friday night in August of 1934, while dancing to the song in the following link, that Makori proposed to Aluna, and Aluna accepted Makori's proposal.        
Rudy Vallee - Confessin' (That I Love You) 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYkFyl2xHk
In the following month of September, Makori Mongoose and Aluna Mongoose were married, and on March 25th, 1935, their first cub, a male, whom they named Chege, was born in that rural mud and thatch hut where Makori and Aluna resided with Makori's parents and siblings.
Not very long thereafter, a genet friend of the family, who was running errands with an old truck, stopped by at the now three generation hut where Makori and Aluna resided with their cub Chege, and with Makori's parents and siblings.
"De laust tieme I wass bock home, I seid ta Cheef Kweli Mongose dat Aluna ond yough hov ah boy coub", the genet told Makori.
"Theik yough", Makori thanked the genet, then asked, "Ow es Cheef Kweli dooen?"  
"Kweli es dooen fine", the genet replied.
Then the genet went on to tell Makori that the Chief of the Kikuyu village back home where Makori Mongoose's family is from has offered to financially assistance Makori to start a business of his own.
"I om heeded bock dot wey...todey...neow" (w/o the dialect - I am headed back that way...today...now), the genet then added.
Makori, Aluna, as well as Makori's mom, dad, and siblings were so thrilled to hear what the genet had told them.
"Weh aw coumin' ahlong", Makori said as Aluna went into the hut to get little Chege.
"Weh aw ahso", Makori's dad announced as the rest of the family gathered up blankets and belongings then piled into the back of the truck.
Being that Chege was just a cub, Aluna and Chege rode in the cab of the truck with the genet while Makori and his family rode back on the bed.
As they were leaving that old hut, Makori's brother Omran said, "I geese weh not geevin da plonteeshion ah noteese weh quitten".
"Deh doun't need ah reesegnaution. Weh goen home", Makori's dad added.
The Chief's offer was certainly better than the family living as farm labourers in a three generation hut 800 kilometers from home.
Before heading up north on Highway A1, which was then a hardpan and gravel road, they stopped by at the farm workers shantytown where Aluna's mom, dad and siblings resided to tell them about the offer Chief Kweli made.
"Deh es room fah moah eef yough wonta coume ahlong" (w/o the dialect - There is room for more if you wanta come along), Makori said to Nangwaya and Suara.
However, Nangwaya and Suara decided on they and their offspring remaining in Eldoret for the time being while the farm work was still good. So after bidding farewell, and Aluna's mom and dad wishing them a safe trip, it was homeward bound on that 800 kilometer ride back to the homeland.
The following day, back at the homeland, Makori and Aluna Mongoose met with the Chief of the Kikuyu village. Chief  Kweli Mongoose told Makori of an old, 1918, Dennis, retired British Army truck and a wagon style trailer that he knew of that was for sale, and offered Makori the amount of cash capitol needed to begin a business.
The truck was an oldie even back then, but it was reliable and in good condition in spite of it's age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736ipt2T3iI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7gKXGXhyU
Makori Mongoose accepted the offer from Chief Kweli Kalu Mongoose (father of future village chief Abasi Kalu Mongoose), and it was not long before Makori began to profit well by attending and bidding at liquidation auctions of warehouse merchandise and other goods where the rent due from the previous owners had gone far into delinquency. Makori and Aluna would then in turn find buyers for it, often by setting up at a spot in a vendor's market, in which they usually turned a good profit...Of course, they've never neglected the gratuity paid back to the tribal village that helped them get started.
In January of 1939, when Aluna was pregnant with their 2nd cub, one of Makori's cousins found out about a nice, old, wood frame house not far off of Highway D348 in Turkana County. A marmot couple from France was going to loose the house due to delinquent property taxes. The house, built in 1907, was at that time 32 years old, but it was a pretty good size, wood frame, tin roof house of modern construction, surrounded by roofed porch space. It seemed the marmot couple had been trying to play the roles of "Mr. and Mrs. big time spenders" from the very time they had the house built, and although the marmot couple struggled to get the mortgage on the house paid off in full over the past 32 years, they did so at the cost of falling hopelessly behind for the past several years in the property taxes.
The Jais Mongoose Family helped their relative and inlaw, Makori and Aluna, with 1,000 shillings cash to bid on that house, and when that house finally went up on auction one morning on the front steps of the Turkana County courthouse, Makori Mongoose was in a position to be able to bid on it.
The auctioneer, a bear who was 2nd generation born in Kenya and spoke the dialect, opened the bidding at 100 shillings (a good chunk of money in those days).
"Hunet hunet, gimme ya hunet. I heah hunet?" (Hundred hundred, give me a hundred. I hear hundred?), the bear began.
"Heah!", Makori called out.
The bear rambled on, "Hof hunet, mek huneh-fify, huneh-fifty, bump et fify. I heah huneh-fify?".
"Ie goh eh hoondreed en feefty", a hyena bided.
"Oy give it ah goh ot tewo hondret", a fox immediately outbid the hyena.
"THREE!", a genet called out, outbidding them both by 100 shillings.
After a brief pause, the bear continued, "Hof threh, bump meh fify, gimme threhfify..."
"Threh hondreet on fifteh, right heah", Makori called out.
The bear continued, "Bump meh fify, hof threhfify, bump meh fify, hof threhfify, threhfify ta foah, bump meh fify, hof threhfify, threhfify ta foah, threhfify ta foah, bump meh ta foah..."
"Foar. Got et", the fox called out.
"Foah hondreet on fifteh", Makori immediately outbid the fox.
After a brief pause, the bear then continued, "Hof foahfify, foahfify ta five, foahfify ta five, bump meh ta five..."
There were no other bids, and the fox lost interest in wanting to bid any higher.
After rambling for a higher bid for another 20 seconds, the bear then asked the fox, "Rotneh Fox, deu ya waunt ta go five?".
Rodney Fox replied, "No"...  
...The marmot couple couldn't help feeling sick watching that old house go when they heard the bear conducting the auction announce, "Goeen oonce...Goeen twize...SOAD, fah foah hondred fifty sheellins, ta Mekoorye Moongoose".
Makori Jais Mongoose was the successful bidder, getting that house and land for only a fraction of the cost of what it would have gone for on the real estate market...100% of the mineral rights were still with the land also.
Another irony for the marmot couple was, Makori, Aluna and little Ghege who was going on age 4 arrived in that old, 1918, Dennis lorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7gKXGXhyU
The marmot couple arrived in a shiny black, high price, 1938, Delahaye 135 MS Torpedo Roadster to watch their house go on auction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ot-tmMq2c0
From the fact the Delahaye was less than a year old, it was obvious that Mr. and Mrs. Marmot purchased it even at a time after their house was already tax distressed.
Aluna even mentioned to Makori about that elaborate Delahaye, "Dot haughty grand cah deh mommots rode heah en. Why...Yood theenk deh wos tryin to live like de Happy Valley Seet".
Makori replied to Aluna, "Tryin ta beh soomtin deh ain't...Lok ah sky-rockeet...Fly high en maughty. Theen one deah, bun ought en foll bok doun".
Makori then added, "Ie woot nevah waunt a weh uf life like dot Hoppy Volley Seet anyweh...Not fa all da wealth in de wold".
That Happy Valley Set Aluna and Makori were referring to were an elite click of British royals, many of whom were Great Danes, bears and European badgers, who settled far to the south in Kenya. Even though those elite royals were wealthy beyond anyone's wildest dreams, they were far from being truly happy. Life for the Happy Valley Set, along with their family relations and marriages, were literal train wrecks wreaked with infidelity, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and at times even murder. That's why Makori Mongoose said, 'I would never want a way of life like that Happy Valley Set anyway...Not for all the wealth in the world'.
    
     The Happy Valley Set IRL;
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Valley_set  

By the way, the repo process had already begun on that sleek, 1938 Delahaye roadster belonging to the marmot couple, which was then less than one year old and still under warranty.  

Having acquired that tax foreclosed house meant Makori and Aluna, with their cub Chege, could now move out of the tribal village where they had been residing since the time they've returned from Eldoret. And when Makori and Aluna's 2nd cub was born on February 4th, 1939, a female they named Makena, that birth took place in that nice wood frame house. Over the next 18 years plus, there would be seven more of Makori and Aluna's cubs born in that house.

As for that old 1918 Dennis lorry, that would be kept as the family's business truck all the way into the 1960s.
In the year after Makena was born, the family got a 1935, Standard, Model 10 automobile, which was only five years old at the time and still in showroom condition...Of course the name didn't mean it had a 10 cylinder motor. But although the car had a small four cylinder motor, it still had lots of get up and go for that day and time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ5qAZw
Aluna expressed concern for the cubs about the car's doors being hinged from behind (what some refer to as "suicide doors"). But it was made crystal clear to the cubs, "Nevah nevah nevah plae wit da dowas while we awh trovileen don da rod".
The car rode nice too. And five year old Chege and one year old Makena were thrilled that the car had a sliding sunroof over the front seat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oAj9tY13k
It would be 13 years later before Makori would purchase the family's next car, which would at that time be a 1951 Standard Vanguard station wagon about to turn 3 years old...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rq-yzFgGog
...But this was still the year 1940.

During the years of World War II, Makori and Aluna had heard news reports, coming in on their old, 1933, Philco model 38, battery powered, farm radio, of conflicts along Kenya's borders with what was then Italian controlled Ethiopia and Somalia, and of Italy's failed attempt to conquer Egypt.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQR2HTwP8Y
But fortunately for the family, all this was going on at the northeast side of Kenya, and the family lived in the western part of the country. The radio reports of the war would sometimes frighten little Chege Mongoose, but Mom and Dad would always assure Chege that the family will be safe. Makena was still young enough that she did not fully understand what the radio reports were all about.

There were times Makori, Aluna and the cubs would take the 800 kilometer (500 mile) trip, which took a whole day, down to Eldoret to visit Aluna's parents and younger siblings who were still residing at the farm workers shanty town north of the city of Elderet. Ohon was already "ot oov de nest" and married and no longer resided in the farm workers shanty town. Aluna's relatives, as well as the other animals who lived in the shanty town, none of whom owned a car, would admire with the 'oos' and 'ahhs', over Makori and Aluna's 1935, Standard, Model 10 automobile, which still looked as good as the day it was new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ5qAZw
During some of those visits, Makori and Aluna would treat the family to The Club for a social night out. Makori would offer to pay the expenses being that Nangwaya and Saura had always been financially poor...So Makori, Aluna, Nangwaya, Saura Binturong, Lusala and Sadika piled into that 1935 Standard, Model 10, with the cubs, Chege and Makena, riding on Mom's lap. A Standard Model 10 is not a very big car, but everyone did manage to find a place to sit...then it was off to The Club.
During one of those evening trips to The Club, Nangwaya Mongoose made mention that although he himself was to old to be called up to go off to war, he did express that concern for his sons Jaramogi, Ohon and Lusala, as well as concern for his favorite son-in-law, Makori.
"Thot hos crossed meh mind befah", Makori replied on the way to The Club. "Boot I try nota theenk aboat et".
Saura Binturong mentioned that's a matter best entrusted in God's safekeeping.
At The Club, the family had a good time enjoying their social outing. Makori and Aluna got treats for Chege and Makena at the cafe' area. Lusala wanted to get Pina Colada, but the British otter working the cafe' counter that night would not sell alcohol to indigenous species animals...so Lusala setteled for a Coke. Makori and Aluna danced to a few songs, reminiscing when it was on that same dance floor eight years earlier that Makori proposed and Aluna accepted.
Nangwaya and Saura tried a few dance numbers...as best they could at the older ages they were.
At the cafe' counter, Aluna mentioned to Makori, "Et wos nevah dees crowded bock wen weh ustah come heah".
"Yea...Et woozint", Makori added.
"It's becose ov the war", the otter working the counter interjected. "Fah soam ov theaz couples doncin' eout on the floor tonoit, it's a los chonce for a young male ta beh wit ez sweat haut befoe eh goes off ta war".
Nangwaya started to say, "Soh, soam ov doas malls awh..."
"Bean colled up fah sovice...Indigoanous ond Brits ahloike...I coud aiven beh colled fah all I know", the otter cut in, then after giving a sigh, continued, "Soam ov theaz females moight beh wittoes befoe thayz mates coam bock home...Boat na wah ov tellin' which ones, ya know".
Saura Binturong added, "Tiz a sad thing...I know we ALL want ta see this war be over".        
As the evening continued, the cheetah who was the DJ that night would always keep a song playing as long as there were animals couples who wanted to dance.
Cling To Me - The BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRWTeVmpL0
You started me Dreaming, Henry Hall, 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vmEpA0MoA
Mrs Jack Hylton & Her Band Love, Just Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWCCLXgeXI
As the song selection, 'Love, Just Love', played, an old adult fox, took a seat beside Nangwaya's son, Lusala, at the cafe' counter.
After about a minute, Lusala inquired to the otter behind the counter, "Why es et ya con't soal ta meh ah Peenah Calotta I want?".
"See heah lad", the otter started. "Ya an indigoanous spaicees ainamal. Tonoit, I got da ceounta, an it's meh reules...I know ya deon't wont meh ta toss ya oughta heah".
When the otter went to go wait on someone else, the old fox sitting beside Lusala said to Lusala, "Doun't get mod ought eem, Lad. Whot-cha soiys weh pull ah good one on dot oughtta?".
"Heow ya gonta do dat?", Lusala asked.
"Well. Wood ah rum-n-Coke deou ya?", the fox asked.
"Well, yees. Bot da ottah woon't seel et ta meh", Lusala answered.
"Well, Oy soiys ya con 'ave one...Eotta ah stroit Coke. Dis ell cova et", the fox whispered to Lusala as he placed enough coins to pay for the Coke on the counter from a pouch on a belt he was wearing..."Oyl toik caeh od da rest", the fox assured Lusala.
The DJ put the next song on as Lusala waited for the otter to come back and take that order for a straight Coke.
Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Get Out And Get Under The Moon (1928)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0e5VPs-CU
Shortly after that song began, the otter came back from waiting on other patrons, and that's when Lusala ordered the straight Coke as the old fox had told him to do.
"Neow, thot's mah lok et", the otter said to Lusala when he placed the straight Coke on the counter and collected the money.
"Ah rum-n-Coke ploize", the fox ordered.
"Rum ond Coke. Ya got et", said the otter, then gave the fox what he ordered and collected the money for it.
With the exception of a mixed drink having no soda straw, a glass of straight Coke and a glass rum and Coke look alike. So when the otter wasn't looking, the fox switched the drinks.
"Ahh, Theenk ya", Lusala thanked the fox with a smile.
"Oy jost wonted a stroit Coke fah mehself onywah", the fox said to Lusala.
Jabir Genet, who was working the kitchen that evening, saw the switch-a-roo of the drinks, but he just gave Lusala Mongoose and the old fox a smile...Jabir Genet was not about to tell Sammy Otter.
Lusala again thanked the fox, thus Lusala got a rum and Coke, and the otter didn't even have a clue.
"Ello. Fawgot one thiang. Ya kaip this, Lad", the fax said to Lusala as he gave the soda straw back to Lasala. "If thot oughtta saw meh wit dis straw, eh'd sea roight thru aw liddle gig. An wea'd BOTH get boutted outta heah".
"Ah yees", Lusala realized as he took the straw to place it in his rum and Coke.
More songs followed as the grateful, young adult mongoose and the old fox who tricked discriminating Sammy Otter enjoyed their drinks.      
"From Me To You" Eddie Duchin and His Orchestra 1933
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviLoclLQ0I
"Ukulele Moon" 1930 Fred Rich & His Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvZngHT5fc
Radio Melody Boys (Harry Hudson) - "With a Song in my Heart" (1930)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXHpOk2Tgg8
While music was being played, the cubs, Chege and Makena, got up from their table and stepped around on the cafe' floor like they were dancing.
"Meh neese ond nehfew ah litto donssas tahnite", Lusala said with a smile as everyone chuckled.
"Aww, dot es sah cute", Aluna said as the cubs continued their dancing.
"Weh donssin, Mamma", Chege proudly proclaimed as a four year old, male, genet cub, a year older than Makena, came over and began dancing with Makena.
"Makeena, yah fond ah boi friend", Makori chuckled to his daughter.
"O mebe ah boi friend fond hah", Grand Dad Nangwaya laughed.
"Yah hof two ve-ee beautahfoo cubs", said a female genet who was dancing with her husband on an area of the dance floor near the cafe' area.
"Oh, theank yah", Aluna thanked the genet couple.
The two adult genets introduced themselves as the parents of the male genet cub, and of a six year old female cub who was being intertained by the waiter Sammy Otter and the cook Jabin Genet.
"Gottah goh nah", the female genet cub said to Sammy and Jabin. "Ah see ah launly boi deah", she said as she pointed to Chege, then ran over to him.
"Okoy. Knock 'em auot, Las", Sammy told her.
"Goh geet eem, girel", Jabin added.
"Ie wanta donce wif yah", the female genet cub boldly anounced to Chege, almost catching Chege by suprise.
"Ha ha! Yah got yah ah girel", Nangwaya said to Chege as he laughed along with the parents and other family members of the mongoose and genet cubs.
"At this rate, we will also have genet genes in the family", Grand Ma Saura Binturong said as everyine chuckled.
The song presently playing was an old 1936 release of  'A Rendezvous With A Dream', that had three short runs with a Hawian guitar. When the first Hawian guitar run on the record sounded, the female genet cub dancing on the cafe' floor with Chege moved her hips, feet and paws in the same side motion as a hula dancer would do.
"Aw, soh cute", Aluna said as everyone got a kick out of it.
By the time the 2nd Hawian guitar run sounded, Chege, Makena and both genet cubs, along with cubs of several other patrons, started doing those hula moves like the female genet cub started, which everyone thought was so cute.
On the 3rd Hawian guitar run, the cubs giggled and laughed as they did that hula side motion again.
A Rendezvous With A Dream (1936) - Buddy Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpeqYFvpm2Y
The Club did not always close at a certain set time each night...Closing time always varied around an hour after midnight...Sometimes earlier closer to midnight, and sometimes later just before 2:00 o'clock. That night, it was about 1:35 am when The Club's owners, Edgar Badger and his wife Monica, got with the Sammy Otter who was running the cafe' counter that night to tally up the earnings the cafe' counter took in...during which following song was playing.
Henry Hall - Dream A While
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGlHN6ZmTo
The presents of the badger couple was also how everyone knew that it was not long before it would be closing time...Often times, Edgar would be puffing on a cigar. And sure enough, came the cue from Edger Badger, in which during the last dance song, Sammy Otter announced the last call for patrons to place any food or drink orders.
"One Heavenly Night" 1930 Leo Reisman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrna8ZlWK24
Then there was also an observance conducted just before everyone left. It wasn't something owners of The Club had always done. And it was decided by The Club's owners that until the war ended the observance would be continued at the end of each business night...Sammy Otter then went over to inform Jengo Cheetah running the DJ's stand that it was time to put on the last song of the night, which was always one of the British national patriotic song records The Club had acquired since the war began...They ranged from 'The British Grenadiers', to 'Land of Hope and Glory', to 'God Save the Queen (or King)'.
When the last dance song finished, Jengo Cheetah, still at the DJ's stand, announced, "Ah woot lok ta osk eveaone ta stond pleese".
Most of the animals who were seated at the cafe' area got up off their seats right away and stood just as Jengo had asked. For those who were still getting up a moment thereafter, Edger Badger motioned his paws in an upward fashion with palms up as though to reiterate, 'Everyone stand please'.
The final song for that night was a variation of Britain's national anthem, 'God Save the King'...which, to British national customs, was played in lieu of' 'God Save the Queen', being that a male was reigning as British monarch at the time (King Alfred George Bear VI).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KLaW35VoA
Everyone in The Club, indigenous and British animals alike, remained standing as the anthem continued to play. During the playing of the anthem, the cubs Makena and Chege, who were then ages three and seven, began tag playing at each other.
"Mekeena. Cheege", Mamma Aluna called them down. "Yoo stond en rahspect ontil da onthom es ovah".  
It was also obvious which of the males were about to be sent to war...They and their wives, or female friends, were the ones holding paws as the anthem played.
After the anthem finished playing, Edger and Monica Badger, as they always had done, thanked everyone for their patronage just before they left to head home.
Because Makori and Aluna with the cubs and Nangwaya, Saura, Lusala and Sadika were about the last ones to leave, the cubs Chege and Makena watched Jengo Cheetah shut down the music equipment for the night.
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Because of audio equipment having vacuum tubes back in those days, when the cheetah turned the cabinet speakers off, they made a short hum-n-skip sound;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vv1aL-JHU
...followed by a brief, falling, tone oscillation;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPQTAofMmg
"Wha et mek dat nooese!?, Makena asked Mom and Dad after the first speaker was shut down.
"Ah beet dea es ah Mahshen froom Mahz een that spekah", Chege told Makena as the adults, including the cheetah, laughed.
"Theah es nah leddel green onimal froom Mahz en theah", Jengo Cheetah chuckled. "Dot es froom da eloctreet potecals onloadin froom da toobes ween yoo shoat dem off".
Daddy Makori mentioned to the cubs, "Aw rodio ought da hoose meks ah soond lok et ween ya toon et off...bot, ahhh...not dat leoud doh".
"Ah knoo, Poppa. Dees speakahs mek ah BEEG nooese", Chedge exclaimed, followed by Makena adding, "YEES!", as Makori and Aluna, as well as the other adults chuckled over the amazement exhibited by the cubs.  
Everyone had a really wonderful time at The Club that night. And on the way back to the farm workers shanty town where Nangwaya and Saura resided with their two youngest adult offspring Lusala and Sadika, they all thanked Makori and Aluna for the night out.
It was late at night, and it was going to be a long trip back home for Makori, Aluna and the cubs, so Nangwaya and Saura let them sleep over for the night before they made the 800 kilometer trip back home in the morning.      


By September of 1943, members of the family, friends and other locals were relieved to begin hearing news reports that Italy had conceded defeat and entered into an armistice with Britain and her allies. And it didn't come anytime too soon either. Makori, his brother Omran, and several other young adult males in the family, along with some of Aluna's male relatives including her brothers Jaramogi, Ohon and Lusala had earlier been notified that they would be called in for military service to help fight the Italians, had the conflict continued. As it turned out, they never had to be called.
The following year, on April 4th 1944, Makori and Aluna's 3rd cub, a female they named Kioni, was born.
One year later, about the same time as Kioni's first birthday celebration on April 4th, 1945, everyone was so relieved to hear of the news about Nazi Germany well on it's way to being defeated...And finally, in the beginning of the following month of May, came the news of Nazi Germany's surrender, and the news of Germany's fuhrer, Adolfo Hildon Wolf, committing suicide.
Many relatives of the Jais and Tatazu Mongoose Families, along with friends and other locals had wondered for some time, "Dooz dat mod woof hauv da robies aw somtin?".
There had been a conspiracy theory circulated around parts of West Pokot and Turkana Counties that Adolfo Hildon Wolf was a rabid wolf.
Only three months later, on the morning of August 6th, 1945, the family was getting ready to have breakfast while a funny little song the cubs liked was playing on that old Philco radio in the living room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpbC_j5Xb4k
Chege who was then age 10, Makena who was then age 6, and Kioni who was then one year old would giggle and laugh whenever they heard that song play on the radio.
Suddenly the music stopped...There was a pause for a few seconds...Then an announcement from BBC news began in the usual slight British accent, "We interropt this progrom to bring you a special BBC news bulletin... Thare aw repots it is balieved, although not confomed ought this time, that several ours ago, the U.S. hod dropped a new kind of bomb on the Joponese city of Hiroshima. It is not known ought this time if the city of Hiroshima no longer exists any moua. Very little news, if any, is aible to get out. We will bring you opdates as they become avoloble... We return you now to yau rogular scheduled progrom".
The song that was interrupted on the radio then continued to play.
When Makori and Aluna heard about 'new kind of bomb' and 'city may no longer exist', it was like, "Wot woss DAT?!".
Even for the two older cubs who were old enough to know what they were hearing from the radio, the news bulletin invoked some sobering thought.
Throughout that day, the local Kenyan animals who had access to a radio would ask others, "Ya heah aboot dat boom the yonkees drop on Jopon?".
There was even a non-anthro giraffe, but could verbally communicate with anthro animals, who went around telling everyone she met, "Eay, evahboty! Ahmaheeka blohed op Hiausheema, China wif a new beeg boom!".
A serval eventually set the record straight with the giraffe, telling her, "Da EEZ noh Hiausheema, China. Et es Jopon...Behsods, China es ah allie ta Ahmeaheeka. Wha woot Ahmeaheeka wont ta bloh op China?".  
Even though it was still an unconfirmed event, and a quarter way around the world, it certainly was the talk of the day.
A day later on the 8th, it was confirmed such a bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...And on the 9th, the very same day the local news paper started coming out with articles and images of the catastrophic results it produced, a 2nd one of those "new bombs" was dropped only hours earlier on another Japanese city that, to the Kenyan local animals, had a strange name...Nagasaki.
Starting one morning a week later, news began to rapidly spread throughout the locality about the emperor of Japan, Hiroyuki Weasel (a Japanese weasel) announcing to his fellow country animals of Japan, that Japan must surrender if all life in Japan is to survive...That was finally the end of World War II, in which less than a month later on September 2nd, the surrender of Japan was made official with the signing of the documents aboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay.
On that Sunday morning of the 2nd (well into afternoon Japanese time), Makori, Aluna and the cubs heard the anouncement of the Japanese Imperial Rescript of Surrender broadcasted on their Philco radio in the living room of their home.
The Club wasn't open on Sundays...But on Monday the 3rd, The Club drew in a big crowd when it opened it's doors at it's usual time of 3:00 in the afternoon. Joey the European pine martin was running the DJ's stand that day, and the first record he played was a very special song for the occasion.
Jack Payne & His Orchestra - "It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP72VPpx7g0
Nearly all the animals in the place cheered, clapped paws, thumped the cafe' floor with the wooden chairs, and foot stomped as that song played, along with many couples hop-jig dancing out on the dance floor...Everyone was so happy to see the war finally over with.
During the war, prior to Italy's surrender in September of 1943, there were quite a few locals, both indigenous and British species animals, who were called up to go to war in the campaign against Italian aggression...There were some of those animals who did not make it back home alive. After the war was over, The Club set aside a place on the back wall behind the DJ's stand to hang up old, framed photos of them as kind of a shrine to those locals who died in the war. Above the photos hung a wood plaque with engraved, white painted lettering, which read 'May they never be forgotten'.  In the years to  follow, those who were new to the area and were not from the local vicinity didn't know who the animals were in those several photos behind the DJ's stand...But the locals knew, and if asked, would often tell a newcomer who they were.
In the months following the end of the war, Edgar and Monica Badger took a trip to Nairobi to order some brand new, 1945, latest record releases from a well known record outlet. Of course the records Edgar and Monica purchased were versions licensed for commercial use in order to legally be able to play them for customers at The Club. Many of them were records imported from the U. S. from 'across the pond'...those western recordings that had become so popular with everyone;
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight - Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvHPaNGz9w
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) - Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfax4TV8-Q
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: You Belong To My Heart - Charlie Spivak (Jimmy Saunders, vocal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1clG6AAZwA
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: There I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe (his original #1 version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Um92VEf66A
1945 Vintage - Jack Payne with his Orchestra (6 British song releases)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHleuTzH8U
Within the next few years to follow, Edgar and Monica Badger would be adding to The Club's music collection, recordings of African indigenous jazz dance songs...After all, since the twenty some years at that time The Club had been in business, they did have as many indigenous species patrons as those who were of British species...It was something Edgar and Monica's three sons and two daughters had suggested.
These were some of the songs for the indigenous species animals to mention a few;
Skokiaan (Chikokiyana) - Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-orzKx8o4
Nabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1a_tZywUM
KAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEBzhBLdHc
Trio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeD4uB0-uw
And also, Sammy Otter had gotten away from his policy of refusing to sell alcohol to indigenous species animals...That came with a little help from Edgar Badger one evening when Sammy was working the cafe' counter. At about 8:30 that evening, Edgar dropped by The Club to check on how things were going. It was also about the time a hyena had ordered a gin sour and his wife ordered a brandy alexander.
"Sorry. I deoun't sell doues kond ah drinks ta ondigenous speacies ainamals", Sammy promptly informed the hyena couple. "Oi'd beh happy ta sell yah ony stroit drink ya waunt".
Edgar, overhearing Sammy, retorted, "Oh fa croying ought leoud, Sommy!...Blimey anahway...Give tha coustomahs wat dae want"...
...Thus it was a gin sour for Mr. Hyena, and a brandy alexander for Mrs. Hyena.  

With the war now over, Makori Mongoose began to try his paw at bidding on tax foreclosed real estate. He had been saving up enough capital to do so from the warehouse lots he and Aluna had been bidding on and reselling over the past several years.
There really were not a lot of tax foreclosed properties in those small cities and towns not far away from home... But there would be in Nairobi because of it being a big city, and it wasn't long before Makori figured that out. So on occasion, Makori and Aluna with their cubs Chege, Makena and Kioni, would get in that old, 1935, Standard, Model 10, and take the trip to the Nairobi County Courthouse in the city of Nairobi to do the research on the land records of the real estate properties facing tax foreclosure...After all, Makori and Aluna wanted to be sure to avoid bidding on something with other liens and judgements already against it. Then they would make another trip back to Nairobi when those properties go up for auction...A trip to Nairobi was roughly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles), but bidding on properties there was profitable enough to make it worth the trip.  
There is a grace period of time for the previous owner of an auctioned off property to come up with money, plus interest, to buy back the property from a bidder. Once that grace period has elapsed, the property then belongs to the bidder to either keep it, rent it out, sell it or whatever the bidder wants to do with it. And when the first of Makori and Aluna's investment properties finally sold on the real estate market, Makori and Aluna saw how much more profitable dealing in tax foreclosed real estate was than it was dealing in rent foreclosed warehouse lots.
Makori even told Aluna, "Weh shoota bein doin dees all along onsteed ah sellin wah-heuse stoof".
But it was like Aluna told Makoti, "Well, Weh hot ta stot from somwheah. On weh deed".  
However, Makori and Aluna would still occasionally bid on and sell rent delinquent goods from warehouse and storage facility liquidation auctions...After all, you never know what you'll find really good in those.

Early in the morning of February12th, 1947, shortly after dawn, Chief Kweli Kalu Mongoose suddenly passed away of a heart seizure, thus making his oldest son, Abasi Kalu Mongoose, chief of the village.

Eventually, Nangwaya and Saura, with their adult offspring Lusala and Sadika, were able to move out of that farm workers shantytown north of Eldoret and move north to the Lake Turkana area where Makori, Aluna and their cubs reside...It was there at the local Kikuyu tribal village that Sadika Mongoose met Tambo Mongoose...It wasn't long before the two Mongooses fell in love, got married, and began a family in the Kikuyu village with cubs of their own.

Over the next decade plus, there would be six more cubs born to Makori and Aluna in that old, Victorian era, wood frame house;
A male, Ruguru, on January 15th, 1947
A female, Chanya, on March 6th, 1949
A male, Kanja, on December 15th, 1952
A male, Moyo, on May 1st, 1954
A male, Jomo, on September 10th, 1955
A female, Jabet, on August 30th, 1957

And sometime during the late 1950s and early 1960s Britain would give Kenya it's independence.

Thus time goes on.
 



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