Kenda Mutongi is a gifted story teller. In her book, Worries of the heart (2007), she breathes new life into the way we marry indigenous knowledge with academic dig ups. Her Maragoli storying refrain, “worries of the heart”, capitalizing on widows, to someone who was reading the book in Ululogooli (advantaged with the plot in mind), creates a new thinking where native knowledge, in different lights, births understanding from which our lives in general can be reflected and be bettered. pic: Lung'afa at Saniaga Home. The book is a gift from Andiah Kisia from Kidundu (now in USA) In 1995 when Mutongi was sitting down with respondents, my grandmother was only 3 years a widow. Having been married to an ideal Quakerman, my grandfather, she would have been an equally resourceful respondent to Mutongi’s questioning. For many years she served at church and till today, she carries that virgin hope of a saviour in heaven, praying all time. What would be like had the missionaries never steppe...