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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 : Imemwa Stream

There however remains a nice grazing field after the bridge but too small for village cows. Cows too no longer want to gather there. After drinking in Izava it soon grows bonny exhibiting strange illnesses that is hard to be attended to by herbs. And when a doctor comes, the syringe kills it quick. Spring water, and not from Izava keeps children in homes busy. If the navizara sees it bad, she asks her children belabour no more. Yatuga yaki natamanyi kurihiza?

Izava took a super curve a distance before Vokoli-Gavudia bridge. A frog that was basking went in, mpu! This lead to none other place than mkivanda wa Laban. There gold is sought. There I was given the metal, touched the pebble and felt the weight. Handing it over, it was tied by a banana rope in munamsai leaf. The diggers were relaxing for a cigar as water refilled the ditch.

Yellow-like mine ditch, gold separated itself from the soil through decantation  and filtration. Grinding was for the deposits that were in rocks. Here, the gentlemen grabbed of how they have never sought employment. For one gram, I'd part with 2,800/-. First class gold, they said. The deposit was however small. More than once they've had to abandon a dig due to likelihood of slide.

This gold search was followed by another after Wekikubu spring. These gentlemen, one an aged papa, were from Tiriki. They had previous on explored river Igaragori. Then a man fished very small fish after them. In different ways, Izava ran for them, increasing in its volume.

Growing tired, the valley bottoms silent, farming presence everywhere, Imemwa soon forked itself as it poured in Izava. Imemwa originates from Wengondo, capturing fountains in Gahumbwa, Wagevi, Mambai, Nabwani, Gaigedi and Gavudia. Imemwa separates Gavudia from Gaigedi. This small a steam kids fished from. When Chavuli called us for lidasa competition, we played Muruvanda that faces Nabwani. There, once defeated, Gwaka did nothing but kunara.

Vasaali have borrowed much from Idakho due to their living as neighbours. Said a Mgihayo who said they migrated from Bugina. A wife needed not destroy the cooking stones, he added. And if she did, if she happens to come back, a new fireplace was made for her. The way her husband wasn't supposed to touch her tits, she wasn't supposed to touch his manhood.

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