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Chahilu history in Lulogooli : Gaa kale gaa Chahilu (1942-2025)

Bernard Philimona Chahilu 1942-2025  Liivulwa Mukuluundu Bernard Philemon Chahilu yivulwa muhiga gwa 1942 mweli gwa kavili guvee sita (6/2/1942). Nu mwana wa Elam Kilago na maama Jelida Modani ma vosi vaakuza. Nu muyaayi Mukizuungu Mudidi mwifwa Mumasiingila Muvisonye. Yiivulwa muyaayi munifu mulidaala lye Gaigedi, Gaigedi logongo, Wodanga Lusoma, Sabatia Sub-county, Vihiga County. Kuviikilwa makono. Yaaviikilwa ku makono no mwilwazi Daudi Kadenge muhiga gwa 1942 mulidaala lie Gavudia mulivugaana lia Valina. (Friends Church). Likevwa Yaakevwa muhiga gwa 1952 kekevo chalaangwa Silula. Lisooma Yaataangila lisooma lilie ha Gaigedi masoomo go muluguki. Yaamanya niazya Gahumbwa Primary muhiga gwa 1955 mukilaasi kia kavaga. Yaakola ligela lia vaalaanga C.E.E. (Common Entrance Exam) muhiga gwa 1956 ha Gahumbwa. Muhiga gwa 1957 yaazya kusooma mukilaasi cha kataano ha Kericho Township School. Muhiga gwa 1958 yaazya kusooma ha Kigama Intermediate mukilaasi cha siita niakolela ho ligela liala...

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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