When the East African railway was underway, the British had a challenge with the labour aspect of the construction mainly due to language barrier between them and the Africans , India (which was already a colony before Kenya) offered an alternative because of better number English speakers. But there was another problem, Indians were mostly Muslims, Hindus,Hare Krishna’s and Kalasingas all worshiping different gods yet these people had to work,eat and sleep togather. Banianis have a god called JAI (you have seen inscriptions “JAI AMBE” ( JAI is GREAT) and of course you have heard of “HARE KRISHNA” meaning (Hail Krishna). The problem is that each group did not want to hear the mention of the other’s anywhere so there were conflicts, fights and strong hatred among the railway workers and the British were worried that they would not meet their objectives so to bring equality and satisfaction and harmony among the workers they introduced a chant that cleverly coins from both chants of “HARE KRISHNA” and “JAI AMBE” thus HARE-AMBE which was acceptable to both parties so when lifting the rail bars they would go HARE AAAMBEE! NOW YOU KNOW WHERE HARAAAMBEEE! came from