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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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Izava Walk : Fresh Air Fiend

I was told that if I had ever seen those jobless TV people who danced naked, I was such. He was a fairly aged man with a cap and boots resembling country style. Asking what an inlet stream was called made him tell me that I was a foreigner. I had thought he would be helpful.

Kids who were harvesting sand did not know the name to it but one could remember the grandmother telling it's name. As I waited for the boy who had gone to ask, he  coarsed me to give the kids some money. Where from? I had money, he said.

Kayiya is the name to it with an origin before Kivura. Kivura is the village to the famed Vodoti. There are two watersheds there however. One facing Nabwani side and the other for Izava. Wambogi is a stream sourcing from a spring from Losengeli a distance before the dried spring at Walugose.

My fresh air fiend, as Theroux notes in his adventure, told the chaps who were cracking rocks around that I was campaigning. To campaign means to talk to people and give them some money. I quickly said I wasn't doing that.

Relieved that I was gone, a woman who was washing asked me whether I knew about her clan name meaning. Very important. As much as I asked, I needed share. Unfortunately, I did not know what Vakihayo means.

Another power saw noised from a distance. Man was busy. One of the best deals is timber deal. I had early in life observed the manual mega saw that raised a heavy log up by rolling. It was taking longer in producing hardwood for the market. A power saw was born.

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