![]() ![]() You can get them (Google Voice also provides free voicemail if you miss a call), but I could not get incoming calls to work in Italy in the Google Voice app when I was there last May. Calls work too - calls to US numbers are free even if you are overseas. The Google Voice app works to text even when you have only WiFi or mobile data (SIM card). Outgoing calls show as coming from my Google Voice number. Incoming calls are forwarded to my mobile number (which I never give out). It is not phone service (like Google Fi), but it gives me a separate (free) phone number for calling and texting. June 1, 1963, the whatsapp group goes into celebration: Jomo_1963 is free.I use Google Voice as my full-time messaging and calling service in the US. ![]() In those few minutes, I forget about Mpesa and think of Airtel Money. Now, while I am a Safaricom subscriber, I cant help but think how quickly the Airtel chaps brought me to their side in those simple two minutes. Jomo_1963 needs some Sh10 to “buy what I need as soon as I’m out of here”Īnd the trade unionist, T_Mboya in reassurance says: “We got you!Sending you cash via Airtel Money!” Then Airtel steps in to remind us what (and why) we are going through the historical journey. Then Kapenguria_6 shares pictures of the cell Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was held in.Īnd what does Jomo_1963 say: “Guys, I AM SO OUT! You know… #StraightOuttaJail manenoz.” with a promise of a “selfie” soon. We need to shut that drama down.”Īll this while the British settlers are “hanging in the background staring at the chat.” The chats continue into April 1961 where Jomo_1963 (Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta) joins the group saying “Guys we need to work with the BRITISH SETTLERS. The political science/history bulb in my head (and in my now excited heart) sparks and lights up. Shortly, he adds the BRITISH SETTLERS alongside the Kapenguria_6, some journalists and other leaders.Īll along the background music feels like something you would hear in the 60’s movies but the all familiar Whatsapp notification beeps brings you back to the smart phone era. ![]() In the advert, James Gichuru a.k.a J_GICHURU63 forms a group KANU_JUU in 1961, the then political party and goes ahead to change the group icon to a cockerel, the symbol of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party and even adds T_Mboya (Tom Mboya, a powerful trade unionist). It alludes to the then fiery politician James Gichuru who indeed was one of the known leaders of the self-rule discourse from the colonial British masters. Through a Whatsapp group, Airtel was able to take us through Kenya’s clamour for self-rule through smilies, (black and white) profile pictures, phrases and other quirky Kenyan social media habits.In a conversation that today, would have likely happened. Now, this probably hooked me because I am an avid reader and lover of history but this advert is something else. So, this 2 minute and 11 seconds advert by Airtel, one of Kenya’s telecommunication company,starts off.Ī commercial that creatively captures the long gone political era- the sixties- through something we can now relate to: Whatsapp. In fact, I cant wait for the “compulsory” five seconds to click it away. As is common of me, and probably you too, with Youtube adverts I rarely watch them. I am waiting for a video to load on Youtube when this advert begins. ![]()
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