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The Kamnara of Sakwa are making ground to build for future generations

Greetings from the Kamnara of Sakwa! The Kamnara people of Sakwa on 27th December 2024 gathered at Village Park, Ajigo (near Bondo). Hosted by Kwaka Joseph, they hearkened to the consultative forum call, arriving in good numbers and early enough for a successful day. The gathering was chaired by Mr. Nying’ro James Onyango, a former (retired) assistant commissioner of Police. The introductions were excellent. The genealogies were mentioned in reverence, lengthy ones applauded. And courtesy of Enos Oyaya’s book, “Kamnara my people”, anyone who would need help had the documentation. Oyaya had launched the Kamnara book on 30th December 2022 at his home in Kamnara Mwalo, an event that gathered Vakamnara from far and wide. “What can we do that the generations to come will benefit from?” This was the clarion Mr. Kwaka Joseph called on all to fashion their minds to. And issues were raised in the fields of Education, health, agriculture, enterprise, politics and more that the swift dholuo would...
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...POOR DANDORA


Will there be a time when Dandora will look like….?
Or better?
Or never?

Have you ever passed by Juja Road and straight across Outer Ring Road?
Mathare slums pleases none, does it?
The sleeping urchins along the road
And the dust on the foot paths
Doesn’t make you sneer, does it?
All this is on our way to Dandora.

If your phone is not snatched at the roundabout,
The bone oduor will kill your smell sense
The rusty vibandas will redefine beauty
Your long afro hair is dyed brown-red-grey

The bottoms creek as the front tires immerse
The engines fail and get restarted
A minibus opts for the pedestrian side
For the road is a neglected rocky farm.

Noise, dust, sun, robbery and hunger
Mud, sewer, breakage and tribalism.

But still people live there
It may be my narrow thinking
For there are people
Who love D!


This picture I took in Kawangware. The situation is not different from Dandora. 

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