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Kinogu may look intelligent because he has been to the big Nairobi city and back. But believe me, he's not. Those who know him can confirm he hangs a bone pendant around his neck. It has its story. Around Afia center Nairobi, a man wearing a turban called out his name. He was surprised as he...

In our village, any canned drink was thought to be alcohol. When Otis came to pay dowry for our local church chairman's daughter, they carried canned beverages. When it comes to setting standards, Luo's do it differently. Having been used to taking soup and water during such events, just the...

There is this day Kinogu and Thanju disrupted a wedding thinking Betty, Kinogu's long time crush was getting married to another man. Kinogu is one of the guys who don't believe in loosing. He has stuck for a while in declaring his love for Betty a no nonsense lady who don't tolerate him. He...

Last Jamhuri day the chief announced a new rule to ban the only bar in our shopping centre. This was after her daughter opened a hotel next to the popular Kumi Kali watering hole. When the loud club was full to the blim, the hotel rarely had customers. Only afew chief's friends like Mzee Kimari...

Gambling has taken her by storm sooner she recovered from taking illicit brews at the local. At 67, having lost her husband a year ago, things have not been the same again. She decided to hide her misery behind a bottle. She knows all the village brewers by their names and have even mastered...

Yesterday evening Thanju and his friend gave my grandfather some biscuits. He found them sitting by the road side counting safari ants. They were arguing on who has more ants by his side, when sharing a packet of biscuits wrapped in banana leaves. Peace loving and composed he decided to go and...

Remember when Kinogu experienced a life threatening cat attack when basking his under and got treatment from a local medicine woman? He is back to the lime light again. Recently he experienced a cut. Unlike other places, here in our village it's a big deal. It started with mobilizing funds for...

"Baba! Mom ametoa mimba." A worried child came shouting and proceeded to cling on his father, disrupting the chief's security meeting. Njoro has been having a rough time in his marriage since he lost his accounts job an year ago. He has been a shadow of his former self. The closest he has got...

The first time red plum jam reached our village, people thought it was blood from lost kids who got sacrificed. It was at the height of illuminati and devil worship fracas. Everyone doing well was associated with the cult. It was even worse if he or she lost a loved one. It was believed it was a...

Imagine attending an event, giving it your best including wiping the plastic chairs with your bum only to be left out when it comes to eating? Thanju's mother stomach never gets full. In her handbag, you will never lack a cup and a plate. She believes that fortune favors the bold. You will...

Here in Wamunyoro village thieves at times decide to terrorize us. They steal anything and everything from cows to cups to mangoes and women panties. According to Aggie a local nurse, It's not a surprise to find a man wearing female inner wears and vice versa. Previously there were efforts to...

If you see Thinwa walking with a limp, don't judge him. It was fate's lifetime way of reminding him; 'Mke wa wenyewe ni sumu (Another man's wife is poison') Thinwa had visited his family in the village from Nairobi where he worked in a Mhindi's shop in downtown. He found that Njunge a guy who...

Not everyone information you hear should be experimented. After spending a whole morning with Thanju at gwa gathee imbibing illicit contents in rusty mugs, he staggered home and found everyone away. He locked the gate and hastily headed to the granny to experiment Thanju's precious idea. On the...

Here in Wamunyoro village we believe anything and everything is authentic as long as it's from Nairobi a city which majority of us only hear of. Thamweli our very good son whom we hear lives big in Mathare came home with a big surprise that has become a pain in our households. He came with...

When the chief announced he was looking for Afforestation volunteers, Thanju knew it's time to experiment an old adage, 'if you go round a mugumo tree 7 times naked you change your gender'. He had even found a female name for himself; Scholastica. Thanju was fully convinced that by going round...