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Youths for piped water; a case of Mudungu Community Water

Youth plumbers being supervised at work in Gavudya village Many youths watched as drillers cut ground, shred rocks and threw gravel out. Then Water! First muddy foam, second clearer – at last!   For weeks Mudungu Primary was occupied with big select machines. 30 years (a generation) ago a water project had gone under and efforts to revive at the very spot kept failing. This time round, courtesy of FLOCA through Vihiga County directorate of Climate Change, a breakthrough was found. Expertise ranged from mid-aged men to youths. Those that drilled, cased, test pumping and tank construction were of the same age bracket. When the call for trenches came, many local young men and women turned up for the works. Drillers at the Mudungu site. It was all a learning process as I took pictures, asked questions and observed the coordinated efforts. A multimillion project bringing together different expertise and tools perhaps spoke of the need to also see the inputs and safeguard at best. ...
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From the craddle, to the world and back

With Professor Mwanzi and his beautiful blue gem 
Kenyan map is basically a Maa zone, 1800s. The Maasai played a major role in the amalgamation and also dispersal of clans/tribes. And also in informing the chronicles of white man, pre-independent Kenya. The philosophy behind the growth and growth of maa was mainly out of their lifestyle. To roam the vastness, meeting new incoming communities. Attacking and enrolling collaborators. Having a ceremony to initiate new members to their tribe - as the Tiriki did, to be counted one among.

Identities were fluid. Changing over time. And fast. Often new people did not want to remain distinct in fear of stigmatisation. To pride in your origins would be equal to self betrayal. There would be consequences. Stories Down River Nile.

Down River Nile is a later story, Up River Nile an earlier story, 250,000 years ago. The craddle of ManKind is in East Africa. Where over time he was civilized enough to step out for adventure and conquering. Up the great river he went. To Arabia, to India, To America, later to Europe. The African Gold Age. And the world celebrated the Black Man, of good character and disposition. Contributing Cuneiform and Hieroglyrlphics to the world. And a system of education such that it applies to date. Greeks can tell.

Then came the Persians. To their own way. The sword and such. Tribulations. Tracing roots, coming home. Then came King James Version of the Bible. Racism. Then colonization and sadly, the modern economical and political standoff in African nations and African states fuelled by China and the West. Ideas against this can turn Africa back to greatness.

Africa, and so East Africa, is capable of providing for its own, people living freely, with pride. As communities of old, in the vast grasslands.

Pic; Historian Prof. Mwanzi and his relic car. With Lung'afa.

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