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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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PETER JAMES; FAITH NOVEL


If the novel was something Christian, I could not have bought. There is no creativity in those who write about Holy illusionary books. The novel is at peace from  biblioklepts because of its cover and only readers rush to the blurb and realize that the Author is a genius.

The story is about love and that is what I will look at it from.

Ross is my man; Faith, the wife I don’t want to marry and Oliver, the person I don’t want to ever meet. I shared insights with a friend-her name is Faith- after lending her the book and she had an otherwise thought. Whatever authors do to people’s mind is unspeakable.

Ross fights for what belongs to him and applies the rules of the jungle. He knows that love is the greatest feeling and explores it to death. He kills his mother because of her err to it or sharing (his father’s love) the love with another man.

Faith, like any modern unstable woman sees grass green on the other side. If you asked me what Ross had done to make her develop an attitude, I would tell you to try court a flower in its bloom. Faith in her ‘innocence’ thinks that love is getting what you don’t have without knowing that not everything we wish for comes to be. She is an irresponsible modern woman who is not ready for two children despite her wealthy status.

Oliver, the king of juju in African eyes, is King David who knows well that Beersheba is married and still goes in to her. There is nothing as friends when it comes to matters of man and woman. What unites the two souls is pre-sex feelings what Ross is well aware of. Oliver, like astronauts believes – people of beliefs- that Faith can survive with a right mental attitude. Can he come to Kenya and tell AIDs patients to do away with ARV’s and believe? Stolen water is sweet yes, but the effects are bitter! He is a representative of the BFFs in campus that go about satisfying your lady when she runs to them in whines.

Who will save us from our desires and aspirations? Ross loves for real. Faith is tired for real and Oliver is opportunistic for real. Now that Ross is dead, what is the world that Faith lives in? Will her son not set them ablaze for killing his father?


There is too much to explain indeed, crazy Faith.

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