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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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A welcome song to Saturn

Welcome Back, Father!

It is long since you left home
Visiting all your faithful houses
It is years! You spent much time away
The kid you left of me
Is twenty seven plus!

The first Saturn return it is
And it is said it means much
To any other soul
For it says, 'YOU 27+ OLD!'
Time to do it again
For three years, while home
There'll be sharing, while you were away!

It has been a struggle, Father!
Since you left me, Father!
It was purposeful, Father!
I can see why, dear Father
The ball was rolled to the cage

From the family pictures of '91
A smiling bouncy boy malnourished at '93
And the first school encounter of '96
Was fearfully dilapidated by the new millennium of 2000
So that as circumcision came in '02
The weak man in me grew weaker in '05
Least of parental care, I took to illusions in '07
And you could hear me pray to pass my exams of '10
For all problems would end thereafter!

In the middle of it all, dear Father
You had the moon and the sun
Conjuncting on my solar chart
It was not all an agony anyway
For best of the moments and memories
Are not of a smiling cheek

It is therefore a welcome home
To see the '90 seed you left me
Look at the drawer garden, Father
Does it look of a careless child?
Look at the diaries I've recorded
Have I been a true soul to self?
But the meditations of my heart
How shall I purify myself, Father?
You know me through

Take a sit Father, take a sit
I bought a pot for cool water
Tell me your adventures Father
Have humans been fated a new?
What does the great whirl say
Where are my odds henceforth?

I'll be patient, Father!
Three Years, before you leave again
Three Years, to shed my skin
Three Years, in your shade
Three Years, guiding me to maturity

Hallowed Father!

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