Lion Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lion/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lion Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lion/ 32 32 Political leaders replaced by animals on Kenya’s new coins https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/political-leaders-replaced-by-animals-on-kenyas-new-coins/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/political-leaders-replaced-by-animals-on-kenyas-new-coins/ Kenya’s replaced the likenesses of former political leaders with animals on its newly-minted coins. President Uhuru Kenyatta says this shows his country has a come a long way. ends intro The Kenyan decision is an attempt to prevent the glorification of political leaders. Previous coins bore the likenesses of ex-rulers Joma Kenyatta, Daniel Arap Moi […]

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]]> Kenya’s replaced the likenesses of former political leaders with animals on its newly-minted coins.

President Uhuru Kenyatta says this shows his country has a come a long way.

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The Kenyan decision is an attempt to prevent the glorification of political leaders.

Previous coins bore the likenesses of ex-rulers Joma Kenyatta, Daniel Arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki.

All three also had their images printed on banknotes during their rule.

Many Kenyans felt this was an attempt by the leaders to promote themselves and the cult of the personality

New coins have at their heads lions, elephants, giraffes and rhinos.

Hailing what he calls this big change is President Uhuru Kenyatta who has promised never to have his picture on Kenya’s currency. 

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]]> Rugby player pays dearly for trying to treat a lion like a kitten https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/rugby-player-pays-dearly-trying-treat-lion-like-kitten/ Sat, 30 Sep 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/rugby-player-pays-dearly-trying-treat-lion-like-kitten/ He came all the way from Wales to pit his rugby skills against a team named after the fastest cat on the continent. But hooker Scott Baldwin paid dearly for foolishly trying to pet the king of the beasts as though it were a kitten. Scott Baldwin and his Osprey team mates visited a game […]

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]]> He came all the way from Wales to pit his rugby skills against a team named after the fastest cat on the continent.

But hooker Scott Baldwin paid dearly for foolishly trying to pet the king of the beasts as though it were a kitten.

Scott Baldwin and his Osprey team mates visited a game farm ahead of their encounter with the Cheetahs at the Bloemfontein home ground.

He put his hand through the fence to pet a lion and got bitten.

Osprey’s coach Steve Tandy was not amused, describing the encounter as pretty stupid on Scott’s behalf.

There was an incident with a lion, but in fairness it was nothing to do with the lion. He did bite Scott but when you put your hand in a fence where there is a lion, then you will get bitten.

From the sideline, Baldwin could only tweet: Sorry to all Ospreys fans for letting you and the team down by missing the game through the bite.

Should [have] known he wouldn’t be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first. And for those asking, my hand is on the mend thankfully and should be up and running round soon enough, thanks for your support and concern.”

The Ospreys were mauled  44-25 by the Cheetahs. It was their fourth successive defeat in the European Super Pro 14 series that South African teams are playing in for the first time

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