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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.

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;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkVCv…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptAlF…

Boire Comma Mo Boire - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPRidQ…

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;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPXAMB…

Masanga (Swahilli) (Belgian Congo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXlBj…

Mwanangu Lala (Swahilli Lullaby) (Kenya)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALWIl…

Mbira music master piece Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUE…

Music based on The System of the Mbira
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsG2W…

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

Jubillee Anthem - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM8RWW…

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

Mbiriviri - Simon Mashoko
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyp1Kb…

Aici Na Wawee - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhdy6h…

Amanxilla - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDHQX…

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

Ibani (Nigeria) - BARA SANABO BARA by Richard Abe Brown Band 1930s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NM_Q…

Baba Oni Taxi - J.O. Oyesiku
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREw3m…

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q_9h…

harry fay everybody's doing it 1912, great classic ragtime song -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iz9lB…

Harry Champion - I was olding Me Coconut
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrdh4n…

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

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

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

Eric Borchard - Bagatelle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsU2y…

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6-a1…

Did you ever see a dream walking - Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxLe9…

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

Tonight Or Never - Harry Hudson's Riviera Dance Band - 1932
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTJD0…

You're Twice As Nice As That Girl In My Dreams - Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra - 1931
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HqKs…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9CrI…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYkFy…
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.
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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7gKX…
The marmot couple arrived in a shiny black, high price, 1938, Delahaye 135 MS Torpedo Roadster to watch their house go on auction.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ot-tm…
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;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Va…

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.
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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oAj9…
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rq-yz…
...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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQR2H…
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRWTe…
You started me Dreaming, Henry Hall, 1936
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vmEp…
Mrs Jack Hylton & Her Band Love, Just Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWCCL…
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)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0e5V…
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
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"Ukulele Moon" 1930 Fred Rich & His Orchestra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvZng…
Radio Melody Boys (Harry Hudson) - "With a Song in my Heart" (1930)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXHpOk…
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
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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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGlHN…
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
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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).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KLaW…
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;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vv1a…
...followed by a brief, falling, tone oscillation;
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"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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpbC_j…
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"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP72VP…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvHPa…
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) - Perry Como
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bfax4…
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: You Belong To My Heart - Charlie Spivak (Jimmy Saunders, vocal)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1clG6…
1945 HITS ARCHIVE: There I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe (his original #1 version)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Um92V…
1945 Vintage - Jack Payne with his Orchestra (6 British song releases)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHleu…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-orz…
Nabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz ;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1a_t…
KAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEBzh…
Trio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeD4u…
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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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.

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;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkVCv…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zptAlF…

Boire Comma Mo Boire - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPRidQ…

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;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPXAMB…

Masanga (Swahilli) (Belgian Congo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXlBj…

Mwanangu Lala (Swahilli Lullaby) (Kenya)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALWIl…

Mbira music master piece Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUE…

Music based on The System of the Mbira
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsG2W…

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

Jubillee Anthem - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM8RWW…

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

Mbiriviri - Simon Mashoko
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyp1Kb…

Aici Na Wawee - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhdy6h…

Amanxilla - African Popular Music In 78 RPM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDHQX…

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

Ibani (Nigeria) - BARA SANABO BARA by Richard Abe Brown Band 1930s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NM_Q…

Baba Oni Taxi - J.O. Oyesiku
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREw3m…

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q_9h…

harry fay everybody's doing it 1912, great classic ragtime song -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iz9lB…

Harry Champion - I was olding Me Coconut
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrdh4n…

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

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

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

Eric Borchard - Bagatelle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsU2y…

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6-a1…

Did you ever see a dream walking - Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxLe9…

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

Tonight Or Never - Harry Hudson's Riviera Dance Band - 1932
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTJD0…

You're Twice As Nice As That Girl In My Dreams - Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra - 1931
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HqKs…
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
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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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYkFy…
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=736ipt…

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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7gKX…
The marmot couple arrived in a shiny black, high price, 1938, Delahaye 135 MS Torpedo Roadster to watch their house go on auction.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ot-tm…
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;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Va…

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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ…
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oAj9…
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rq-yz…
...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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQR2H…
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9PYQ…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRWTe…
You started me Dreaming, Henry Hall, 1936
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vmEp…
Mrs Jack Hylton & Her Band Love, Just Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWCCL…
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)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0e5V…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviLoc…
"Ukulele Moon" 1930 Fred Rich & His Orchestra
www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvZng…
Radio Melody Boys (Harry Hudson) - "With a Song in my Heart" (1930)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXHpOk…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpeqYF…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGlHN…
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrna8Z…
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).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KLaW…
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;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vv1a…
...followed by a brief, falling, tone oscillation;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPQTA…
"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.
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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"
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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
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1945 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) - Perry Como
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1945 HITS ARCHIVE: You Belong To My Heart - Charlie Spivak (Jimmy Saunders, vocal)
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1945 HITS ARCHIVE: There I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe (his original #1 version)
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1945 Vintage - Jack Payne with his Orchestra (6 British song releases)
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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
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Nabanzi Yo Gertrude / Omoni Te (Tino Baroza) - African Jazz ;
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KAREKWANGU by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band 1953
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Trio Beros - Mambo La Roffia 78 RPM Esengo;
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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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