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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: Kotema Kerova

Izava went about its business as we talked. It was yet it wasn't. The trench was there, visible, but the waters that left their fountains in the morning were long into Bunyore if so Izava's speed can be estimated.

Kotema kerova is when somebody needs a certain cleansing that in itself isn't well justified. For instance, if my sister had a child before marrying, and it happens the child dies, she is supposed not only to attend to the child's burial but also do something else.

Once the child is burried, in this case in paternal place, she has to spend sometime with the child's father. Have sex. Fire extinguishes fire, foresters know that. If the child is in maternal home, burried there, anyone, probably my sister's crush would be the pawn in the game. She should go where she's married a washed woman.

Kukunga kihari, as I shall  later include more of sayings, is when a child and the paternal people are supposed to set off before the died woman is burried fully. The died woman could be a married or divorced lady who in a way or another, a conflict settles her to be burried where she was born. Dowry may not have been paid or the husband was cruel. When the grave is filled halfway, they leave immediately, without eating, no looking, sometimes under great cries from the child.

Kotema Kerova is also what is expected when people you are closely related to die. If my brother, sister, parent dies, I got to sleep with my wife, of course if I am married, and shed off the happenstance.

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