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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...

Street life is a choice

Landlords and landladies give rise to street children. This is derogatory. Are you a waiting inheritor? Help me to understand better. My landlady has one crazy man and a second crazy-becoming boy. I am also crazy to think of them so. But I won’t say that there is something connected to landladiness. But there is something disconnected to landladiness. Wink

A son of soil knows that the bad will be rewarded. I am yet to understand why I should pay rent. Do I not belong? Was it an accident for me to become?

It was discovered that some street children are from the best of families. One died and the cars that attended the burial ceremony were many than the ones that will attend mine. These children are those who ran out of homes in search for what they miss- lackingness. It is in nature that we seek what we lack. If we have good or belonging, we sick for the opposite.

Street boys may be the free most of human beings. And happiest in comparison to you and me. They are bound by no ambitions, no output mandates, no jurisdictions and least social encompassing. As animals-our neighbours-they want to roam freely, feed freely and expect whatever comes. I admire that kind of life. But it has some shortfalls- not many. Don’t our people say that the higher you are on a tree the greater the fall?

Children who were born in vulnerable families and in one way or another ended in the streets soon get out through initiatives that are around. A willing street person easily gets out. Those born in the streets also challenge the life with time. But those who were meant for there- as some are meant to alcoholism- aren’t expected to leave. I do not know about disorders for who lacks one? Social deviation is a fact.

And when you speak of that girl who hawks in town, is picked and dropped back by Subarus and yet won’t want to be confined by a four-cornered place, don’t you wonder? Housing is a human creation or rather ‘wall’ housing is the norm of day. Humanity is a mockery. Not even gods define it. For is it not the monkey-anus life between a slum dweller and a street survivor?

When I see my neighbours behave suggestingly, I know that when the parents die they will sell the house to another straight person as they go to the streets. I will buy. Then my children, too stupid for life, understanding no gain pains, will live to admire what they miss- and nature will reward all equally.


Thank you.
Lack of some sense may be a good living way- does the boy seem disturbed as me?



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