2020, The Year That Could Have Been!
The year 2020 promised to be one of the most exciting years in Kenya Rugby history, but then the pandemic hit!
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A Real Ninja Rests.
Real Ninjas don’t die, they rest… It is the 9th of June 2017, a group of 12 very excited rugby fans are meeting up at Nairobi CBD for the maiden rugby na tusker tour. The trip which had been in the works for a few
Farewell To A Jolly Good Fellow, Tony Onyango.
For he is a jolly good fellow, for he is a jolly good fellow…for he is a jolly good feeellooow, which nobody can deny! It is now over a week since news of Tony’s passing hit us like a canon ball, right in the gut!
A Battle Against Cancer, Driven By Rugby – The Story of Harold Bolton Tende
I first met Harold ‘Roldie’ around 2016, as a young energetic man, with an infectious laugh and signature grin, right in the middle of a battle against head and neck cancer, he was 19 back then. Apart from the tube running from his nose, there
Shujaa Team Of The Decade (2010-2019)
The Kenya Sevens squad of the decade ending 2019
Kenya Simbas Team Of The Decade (2010-2019)
The Kenya Simbas team of the decade ending 2019
The Real Jadhah Rests!
“A rugby man is one who is so consumed by rugby’s core values – integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and respect – that they permeate every aspect of his life until he becomes one with them, and I’ve known one such man Richard Otieno Sidindi ‘Real
The Shamas Dream.
It is sometime in 2009 and an eager Mr. Azim Deen is looking for a place to take his 5 year old son for rugby training around Nairobi. After a few false starts, he finally stumbles on a hand full of kids on a hot
“I Am The Best Number 9 In This Country!”
“I am the best Number 9 in this country!” A wide grinned Muttley would always remark, whenever we met, a man who made myself and a great number of those who found him at the Nairobi School, fall in love with the sport of rugby.
The Magic of Rabadaa!
There is always something magical that happens every time a group of people pick up a rugby ball to play a round of touch rugby, whether on a Tuesday evening before a training session or a random Sunday afternoon at a friend’s backyard. There is