Curtains fall for veteran thespian who dreamed of playing Mandela May 16th 2021 at 09:00:00 GMT +0300
The late thespian Gilbert ‘Gillie’ Owino, who died last week, had hopes of one day playing the role of Nelson Mandela and Morgan Freeman in a movie. The two icons alongside Sidney Poitier were his role models.
Sidney Poitier played the main role in the movie ‘The Wilby Conspiracy’ shot in Nairobi back in the late 70s and later made it to the list of the few first black actors to play a major role in film and the first to win an Oscar for best actor.
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Marium Atieno owner of saloon cleaning bloodstains at her saloon in Bamburi where an armed gang had attacked people, her client was slashed and injured.[Weldon Kipkemoi, Standard]
A gang slashed 10 people, sexually harassed women and robbed traders and locals of cash and other valuables during a raid in Mombasa s Bamburi on Monday evening.
In an attacked similar to the one carried out in August 2019, the gang of about 40 people that appeared from the Soweto converged at Bashir grounds before they spread out in groups of five.
Victims said the raiders were dressed in white robes.
Nyali police boss Daniel Mumasaba said only two people were injured in the attack but the
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The road and rail then moved from the bridge to the causeway, effectively shutting the waters to their respective sides, and closing the island chapter altogether. [Courtesy]
Before that, an 1899 Salisbury bridge stood over the waters, maintaining the island s integrity and allowing waters and marine life of Makupa straits to flow freely.
But the vagaries of the first world war, specifically the fear of aerial attack on the bridge drove the British to fill the causeway to guarantee communication of the island with the mainland.
The road and rail then moved from the bridge to the causeway, effectively shutting the waters to their respective sides, and closing the island chapter altogether. Mombasa ceased to be an island in 1929 when Makupa Causeway was launched.