This is a blogpost about people and their history, both with the current NEWS and happenings..I will personally take time to research and write about people of the past, places and events, please am also learning to blog... welcome to my world!!!
This guy's is a man of the masses, he has been on records to having fundraising online irrespective of gender. Though I have never met him in person, I think he comes from the border town of illasit. David kisira is always updated with the happenings nation wide, in fact,if there is any thing trending in Kenya, I always refer to him...
And moreso hii ya Millicent omanga.
It's my firm believe that he will continue working with this helping spirits.
2) Don Mufasaar!
In kimana town, seldom do you here( kama unataka ku fundraise ona kijana wa Nyambene).
This person is well related with the community. His only predicaments only comes with the Chelsea football club. Rarely has he said to wanting to:a) quite Facebook if Chelsea looses
b) promises of walking naked if Chelsea looses are all on his Facebook accounts records. Slight advice, (weka game ya football kama siasa.) When it comes to politics, he is very careful and always wishes a candidate the best. He knows that votes are with the people.
The most community work that he ever did was the one where he fundraised for children who died at a certain swimming pool in kimana.
3) mzoefu and Chris msaffi253.
Thought to be the spanner boys of the current kajiado south member of Parliament. Their only outdoing once came with the association of a certain LGBTQ where most perceived them as immoral. They later clarified on this matter and it's on the public domain that they joked of it, and thus disqualify them from the community.
They are always located at oloitoktok town. They have a talent in the entertainment industry.
4) MAASAI JUNIOR
Safaricom has refused to increase his fuliza limit, my guess though.he has been on constant disturbance with safaricom PLC page with numerous post. The most ever like is a post on which he questioned safaricom to avoid calling his wife dear..
5) kijana ya kasisi.
An upcoming blogger though the use of pseudo account make his contributions, so less impactful.
Bro get a real name once you hit the target of using a pseudo account. Probably, he is a motorist,thus to the constant criticism of sub standard fuel of ulilinzi petrol station at isinet.
6) Peninah maiyani
A self crusader of (BYOB) .A self proclaimed campaigner against early marriages. He has been on constant fight with politicians who are anti women. Most notable terms that you should look from her Facebook posts are kungunis, kiroboto and rosecoco.
On a closer look , she tends to educate women on the importance of managing their own businesses.
She jokes alot but some of his post are beneficial to the community.
7) Naitwa keteh( alias keteko)
Staunch supporter of William Ruto presidency.. he has been on the constant wrangles with governor Joseph Jama ole Lenku, for whatever actions he contribute to the governance of CGKJDO. I support his actions as I'm sure, should MCA aligned to UDA find themselves blocking relevant ideas, one man to act as the check of kajiado government activity would be keteko.
Note that this ain't the final list of bloggers from Kajiado south, just picked the most followed and commented on shoshoford media.
The elders from our community were wise and understanding. I do not say this to praise them but we always have to give credit to where it deserves. A feast was held for the warrior who had peacocks lucky by having escaped the whiskers of death. The strongest and fattest bull were selected and made to undergo all the slaughtering process. Afterword’, roasting of meat would follow and after all this, fat had to be prepared for applying on their bare feet, which after crackling had produce, a natural hole and using geometry to do simulation, they had something like riftvalley under their feet. Some cracks were so large that footprints that were left on the ground looked like the firestone marks. It looked like an escarpment since it was so carefully that one would say it was a person design.
The more the hours elapsed the nearer the time for the once prophesied leader neared. The old man, known as Loyielo conversed with the people after he gathered them one fine morning. He used all his servants and messengers to summon all people so that he could tell them what he intended. Earlier on, as Loyielo had said that they were expecting a leader who was chosen by their creator be sent to them. He went ahead and said that the right time for the expected leader had come. He also cautioned that they were supposed to exactly do the way he told them.
The description of the man proved that he was an Afidus Achates, more over an Adonis. He would socialize well with the villagers after which they were supposed to know each other well. In fact, Loyielo pointed out that there would know any day that they would quarrel with the expected leader.
His identification, things that would make the villagers believe that he was the right one was that he would come with two cows and a bull. He would be a Lilliputian with red Fleming hair and would be black handsome in colour. More of him was that he would be a helmsman with a perfect physique, hence would make the river from the waterfall navigable by using his powers and techniques. Our community now will brags of having the three forms of transport.
They are the so-called water, animal and road transport. Water transport would be used whenever the two forms of transport were not applicable. For instance, when one wanted papyrus reeds he would use water transport to go and fetch them.
Through use of available resources such as logs of trees, he would show them how they would be crafted so that they would float on water. Then, through use of oars, he would show them how to row along the river. The man was to have an abode in Loyielo’s house, since Loyielo was the only one who would have that given opportunity to speak to him during the first few years. Another task was that he was supposed to interrogate the man so that he would be known in details.
The man had to be respected by all the others members b all the others members of the society, whether old or young to alloy his mind to settle down and think effectively. When not respected, he would abandon them and are vanished and their opportunities to utilize the available resources turn into a nightmare.
After one fortnight, children playing in the field said that they had seen two cows and a bull in the bush. They said that the animals were all grazing together and it seemed they were caring since when they were resting under the shade of a tall tree. The bull would scratch with its tongue on the cows’ body, which would in turn do the same to the bull.
They looked extra ordinary since they were twice larger than the size of our ordinary cows and bull. In addition, all were polled and had their tails which whitish in colour. Their muzzle were red all had their wedged shaped appearance clearly planned that no one could miss this distinctive characteristics. This is a feature of high milk producing cattle; so were they also. Children also said that a man was looking after them. The man from far was half and a meter tall.
He stood still like pruned desert acacia tree. His eyes looked like the coals of fire. Too could send a house ablaze. Other folks were heard said that he could possibly have come from another planet.
The other alternative was that some story tellers said that since he had eyes that looked like rubies floating on a radioactive fluid since none had such and also history has it that never has that been recorded.
His fingers looked like a bunch of bananas and had muscles that looked like the olormeuti hills. His hands hang sideways like the feathers of an injured bird. He used his left hand to hold his rungu and his right hand remained transfixed at his waist. Truly, he was an ambiodexter.
The area received both frontal and relief rainfall hence this made it to be a meadow. Due to the area being covered by green grass which included the elephant grass from the family hyparrhenia and cymbopogon afronardus; the southern community had taken the of utilization of the available home resources.
They hid themselves in the partly sod-forming grasses which were found in open areas. The tussocky grass that tufty provided a hiding place to those under some short, umbrella shaped acacia trees with their leaves reduced to thorns. Their mode of dressing was an added advantage since it was just difficult to differentiate between the warriors and the grass.
The tufty grass made the warriors from our community to walk with difficulty. Some grass had some effect since they scratched our warriors in the scorching sun. All this were the fake reasons that may be our warriors would use if given some time to say the cause of their defeat.
Most of our warriors kicked the bucket before they recognised the hidden trick. The warriors from southern community camouflaged themselves with green grass that when they were walking one would not imagine that a mortal thing was covered under. In fact, just calling a spade a spade, it looked extraordinary since most of them were astonished for they had never seen such a method. This only happens in modern movies video as seen in LANG MEI movie and LAST MAN STANDING, especially those vietnamese movies.
This methodology seemed to be elementary to some of them; especially those who were recruited recently. The shortcoming was that our warriors would be seen from far since they had won clothes, which were visible in day light.
They had shukas, which were red. It took quite a good lengthy of time before they realized the method of using the green grass. However, the time they realised Lapuroni gave as an order that anything green seen moving should be cleared or speared from far.
However, alas! This would not have solved their problems since most of their corpses lay in the battlefield. Blood had collected enough to form small affluent. The southern people way of killing someone was a bit thrilling since they had many procedures.
First, they would pierce the warriors eyes (but this is terrible) then they would stone him to death (thinking of Lot’s wife- yes you should.)More often, it seemed they were using the hot-tempered Mosaic policy of stoning someone as vividly explained in the Holy Christian Bible. They would do it faster and accurately, as they were capable since a specific site was used.
There and then, blood would always gush from someone throat and into the thirsty ground. The scene was actually terrifying since like all of our soldiers were lying down in a sea of blood. After being butchered and maimed, their corpses would remain mute and lifeless, with disoriented eyes that seemed to ask why. In fact, some looked as if they were in the ARMS OF MORPHEUS.
Supposing you had a chance of eye witnessing the grotesque situation, aphonia would be a NINES DAY WONDER talk about you by people to have taken over your senses. The area smelt of death and destruction. It had started smelling, stinking like nobody’s business. A whole flight of flies had conquered the atmosphere and here I know you would not hesitate of thinking the plagues in Pharaoh-Moses encounter. It did rain on a certain evening and that made the already bad situation worse. Chemistry; blood in water or water in blood. Mind you, any would be suitable.
The foul smell that was invading the region was more than that the odour that came from an untreated sewage. Lapuroni thought that the war would be ephemeral. However, after what seemed like a wild goose chase Lapuroni decided and thought about giving in to the opponents. Though his warriors had attempted to kill the warriors from the southern region, he had to obey their home advantage.
Finally, Lapuroni became intimidated and he shouted at the highest order. This was so carefully planned just to draw the attention of the southerners. Meanwhile, the southerners were heavily pondering of his whereabout and here he was busy exposing himself. His prayers were answered. This time it was very quick. It happened. He was besieged using the buffalo invasions method.
When he looked around, he saw a clique of warriors advancing to where he was from all the possible directions. Lapuroni became frightened like MACBETH BEFORE THE GHOST of BANGUO. Impromptu. Since he had remained an altruist to his people, he and other warriors ran towards the southern folks in order to intimidate them. They were all shocked and flabbergasted when they discovered that none of the southern soldiers showed white feathers.
Lapuroni’s thought of retreating was well apprehended by the southern soldiers. They all ran towards him. As a matter of facts, he and his warriors were ordered to put down their weapons. They therefore had to raise their arms after they were through with kneeling down.
He was captured after he decided to surrender into the hands of the opponents. All the warriors were slained. Other warriors, from our tribe, who were watching from far ran back to our home village as fast as they could. They had a lot to tell the rest. It was so pitiful to be pleasant. There were weeps’ and shouts all over, my son, my son. As usual, prominent figures in the society were not supposed to be killed by warriors. It was believed their spirit would haunt such a warrior who would raise his hands and kill the prominent figure. Those too much tales surrounding such an act were always impregnated with fearful thoughts that after-killing events that none has ever been killed by warrior. Those misfortune foretold were even heavy enough to comfortably be accommodated on a warriors back.
Therefore, with this in the warriors mind, all left the work to their leader who looked so innocent that one could think that he couldn't even kill a fly. But judging book by its cover is what we have just done. The leader walked to the ground that Lapuroni stood. First of all, he became more of a comic when he slapped him. Lapuroni groaned in pain but he would dare do nothing. He wished the earth would open up and swallow him only to come back like a bainely. However, cracks happening on the ground were as impossible as having the Kilimanjaro topple over.
“Why you not responding to greetings buddy. You thought this is a free land where you just come and impose your rules like a kitchen without a cook. Today I will help you to visits the land of no return. When you arrive there tell them the world became smaller for you that you could not accommodate yourself."The leader asked in a tone likely to suggest he was very furious.
Lapuroni shivered that the earth below and grasses seemed as if they were dancing SALSA. The leader from the southern region looked up and down. The gesture that was suggesting that he was praying for the safety of safeness. He ordered his warriors to scatter in order to avoid Lapuroni’s blood splashing on them. He was to be butchered mercilessly. In addition, supposing he would have won, he would have done the same to his opponent. The yoke was ready and after they all disappeared, his head was restrained in between the yoke.
The leader held his knife and chopped Lapuroni’s neck, which sends the head obeying newton’s first law of gravity. His bodies did the once easy but hard task- breakdance. Of course, Lapuroni’s error was over. It was never to be seen again. It had all gone for good. He was to be an ancestor but now he was a living dead.
The southern folks had proved to be invincible as chewing gum. He was recorded in the tkirrir Oley, which is comparable to today’s Guinness book of world records. Our community too had learnt how to live with the other community in the hard way, which by matter of facts it was the only way.
The warriors from our community who had escaped, when they were interviewed said that the scenario left behind in the southern folk was not worth remembering.
The regicide had even worsened the situation for it made them to be confused like the BABEL as so clearly depicted in the Old Testament. I take this opportunity to send my utmost condoloscences to those who encountered FRATRICIDE in the battlefield. It hurting but it will always remain unturned, come sun, come rainfall.
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Back in our community, everything was all set. Lapuroni decided to carry out his plans. He pointed out the departure time, which was to be told to the warriors by the leader of the raid.
This time back, Lapuroni did not announce the departure time by himself. This is because Lapuroni was actually doing some preparations which were secret. They were not supposed to be known by any Joe blogs since they were meant for the king and the king only.
The following morning, the raid leader had to sing the reveille. This was to ensure that the warriors were well prepared so that they would not be making bricks without straw.
Also for those who were encountering baptism of fire, were to use this chance to ask their accomplices on how to cope with the alien situation. The warriors were to remind each other not to breach their promise, which they had been told by Lapuroni.
As usual, Lapuroni’s archers were singing their war song in which all the lines had encouragement information. They were all armed with sophisticated weapons which ranged from spears, swords, shields, catapult, sling, and many wooden rungus.
They all sang to call the gods of victory to pay them this wanted courtesy visits which for the moment was important and need like life. They needed extra energy to use when dealing with the opponents, and this too, they were to overcome the lethargy.
The archers were heavily attired with helmets, armour and all this was to ensure protections of them. The southern kingdom was located to the south of our geographical position. This meant that they had to leave at dawn crack so that they would arrive at dusk. The distance to the boundary took a whole eleven hours.
They trotted slowly so that they would not arrive early. They climbed hills, descended and ascended valleys changed their tortuous whenever they found a cliff until they finally arrived at the boundary. From far, the boundary had an appearance of a highly forested with tall trees which formed three distinct canopies.
The boundary had a river, which was not as large as river Oloidimari or Nabebek Rivers. One could observe the black water of the river flowing in a snaky movement down its downstream. There was a cool weather, which was enveloping the atmosphere as the sun was now setting; as on its usual journey it would rise in the morning from the east and set lately in the evening on the western sides. Here the raid leader had to order the warriors to gather up so that they ask for guidance and protection from their ancestors while together. However, it is known that a single finger cannot kill a fly.
They would then be embolden and given the directions of which they were supposed to follow. They were divided into groups of fifties, which too gave birth to seven groups. They were to wait until dawn so that they would start an arson activity. Midnight darkness made them to be somnolent but none would try to sleep.
An hour before dawn the sky began to glow. Perhaps a volcanic dust in the atmosphere was emitting heat or some trick of temperature was bending the sun’s rays to create a false dawn.
It was so false to be true that dawn had arrived. The entire warriors got ready to start the strife but the rebel leader warned them that dawn had not finally come yet. Some started seeing as if that was an omen from their ancestors that they should stop fighting, however, because they feared Lapuroni they all remained silent.
Who would dare say this and escape his wrath? Who would be brave enough to associate himself with the scorn from the people and face seclusion? Of course, only a coward or a fool could afford the tenacity to say, we shall be defeated. When drawn cracked, al the respective groups parted and as unison agreed their motto was, ENDEAVOUR TO KILL BEFORE YOU ARE KILLED.
Their motto encouraged them to fight tooth and nail. At first, the place look deserted because empty building would be seen in the dark dawn. Humidity had absolutely gathered in the atmosphere and had reduced visibility to only a kilometre length.
The hamlet in the village was visible due the fact that the terrain of this region was hilly, mountainous and a great valley occupied its northern side.
The valley had some hills and mountains, which were high making them chilly most of the time as its boundary. However, at the valley bottom, the rays emitted from the sun combined with the terrestrial radiation made the atmosphere warmer and hotter.
The temperature was always hot that you could have thought that the sun and terrestrial rays were eager to make a furnace like atmosphere.
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The southern kingdom though were silent were wiser. They were silent due to the way their leader had organized them. They knew that still waters ran deep and they never judged a book by its cover.
Also, it is said that long time ago, their fore fathers had produce many wise men. They had a man who was known as Kerubo who could foretell the future. His prophecy had always come to happen and there was no doubt that he was a man of great honour He once foretold that a great famine would occur after an ample harvest.
People benefitted greatly in that they preserved their produce well to cater their needs during the dry spell. Also, Kerubo just like other famous men had the know-how of judging two conflicting people. He would pour oil on cold waters where he found that people were not agreeing with one another. This vividly shows that Kerubo was a cool man who loved peace and stability. So were the other members of their community.
Kerubo actually made sure that the other southern kingdom is always wise and would remain in peace forever. Perhaps, this tries to explain why the folks in the southern kingdom are always wise. The southern kingdom had a spy in our community who was not known for a long time. Rumours say that the man came to our community used to engage in trade with the southern folks.
People from the southern were farmers and always exchanged their agricultural produce with animals in our society. During this trade people had designated places which were set out for the auction. People would go back to their geographical region after the activity was over and no one was supposed to be in his partner territory, unless under unavoidable situation. For instance, such as when there were floods which would make it impossible to travel to as floods were feared for drowning people.
It is said that one day a great rain rained cats and dogs enough to fill up all the tributaries of river Oloidimari. People were allowed to stay in our region and that may be how the man remained in our society. The spy was versatile and had the entire motive to take the message to his people that war was being prepared against them.
As if to add salt to an injury, the man told his folks the weapons his that our community was intending to use. This among many others factors led to the amelioration of their large loyal army. This happened in two days for the southern kingdom were well organized.
Lapuroni had all the unfortunate reasons of not discovering that and that is why he never had improvement in his army. The southern folks too were ready to defend their tribe against any internal or foreign aggression. But of course, losing was not anything to think of but something planned well to escape it seducing sweet and soft tongue. This made the southerners to raise their nose and breathe the high air.
The southern folks divided themselves in to two groups. This was a reflection of their organization and how manageable they were. The two groups were selected according to the activity each group was to carry.
The first group was for those who would be cooking food for the fighters. The other group, obviously, would be composed of those who were to confront Lapuroni own army.
The subgroups were also formed from the group of those who were to cook. They would cook then another subgroup was to transport food to where the fighters were in their hide outs.
These were supposed to be Apollo’s and amazons who seemed to be daring enough to act at any situation which was likely to call for their attention. The other people who were to remain inactive were interned in one area so as that the intruders would not be able to intrude them.
This group comprises the old, children, the sick, all the other people who had some form of disabilities. Such a group also had to have some signs of showing that they were not to participate in the war. They were to have some white piece of cloth and a calabash which was artistically decorated with black and red colours.
This would help to show that they were not participating in the in the said war. However, this was not a sure way of defending oneself for at times such rituals were always ignored. But again to prevent is better than curing.
With these thoughts in mind, this group also too had to have some security and that is why the leader of the southern people gave them some weapons so that they would use to intimidate the intruders where the need would arise.
With all this preparations the leader of the southern people broke into a prayer. “My god, my god I pray, I pray That we shall, we shall have victory Oh lord of Kerubo! Oh lord of my folks! We have always lived in believing you. We know by your powers Everything shall be done. Almighty creator Bless us with your fulfilling’s benedictions Also some women sang outside their huts to encourage the warriors of the community to gather bits of valour and attack the invading intruders.
So up to this moment the southern people were as fit as a fiddle and ready for the war. All that remained was praying to the creator so that they would have victory.
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As a tradition, before war would begin, member of our community had to be asked to offer assistance in order to make the war active and lively.
Lapuroni, with his protruding nose likely to grasp all the air in the vicinity, was as usual contrary to the people. He never asked people to join hands but gave it as an order. Was he like serious surely? In fact, he was double on this. That’s why he was once quoted saying the following words.
“People of my community,
I want to make you famous”
He said with an almost deafening sound. “…in order to do that ...war… Southern must be taught a lesson”
He blotted out producing those eyes that could send a snow into melting.
“You must give me a helping hand, Conquer is the way … way of the high leaders, Those tall and brown men, Will call my name like it’s a nice meal.”He said this in a voice that seemed to be requesting.
At that incessant time Lapuroni thought of how about choosing a specialist who would perform a ritual aimed at finding whether they would win the strife.
Lapuroni at times sought advice from the village elders but never did that when he is under the influence of ignorance.This time back, he overcame the ignorantia influence and sought help from the village elders. The elders decided to advise him to choose a bull without blemish.
A bull without blemish was chosen from the rest. The bull had to be slaughtered the following morning at the crack of dawn. A bull without blemish was selected from the rest for they were believed to be totally pure and free from any forms of misfortunes.
The following morning when the rituals were performed it brought a positive result. What the specialist does cannot be told by any tom, dick and harry you would ever come across. Actually, it is under the scope of my knowhow.
Lapuroni was in all jovial moods as after the results were announced to him he was overheard singing the following songs. He actually shivered with delight, moreover self-congratulations.
“Blessed is the man who always …
… Who always tries to find a solution to his
Disturbing problems?”
“Victory will always,
Come after, a rage of a,
Rage of a spear.
Oh! Oh! Oh!”
“Bless is the specialist,
Who always foretell the good fortunes”
“Blessed is the man,
The man who never fears,
To do what he wants to do.”
“This is why the people, The people from the south, Will know who I am?”Lapuroni was as sure as the sun would finally set today that he would achieve victory with such an ease that he even did not wonder how this would materialize.
He was sure all this would come to happen since he had this indubitable attitude that specialist were always true and sincere in their work. As if to make him cycle in the sky, it was clear that no such rituals performed had ever backslidden.
" Lapuroni need to be remembered some facts in life.These are none other than,
a)Do not whistle till you are out of the woods
b)Man is to error
c)Don’t count your chicks before they are hatch….”
A village elder was heard complaining. This to Lapuroni was the mere prayers a hen prays against the eagle.
So many ancient tales surround this but biology also has a place in this. To balance nature a whole food chain must be completed.
He was seconded by his fellow elder, who said that,’’you see after the specialist had herald that the victory would come easy, an ear –to- ear smile appeared on Lapuroni once grave face.
His eyes grew wider with excitement leaving his nose bulging out as if he wanted to breathe the environments pure natural air to himself. His mouth remained wide open exposing a set of coffee brown, stained teeth, were sharp and long.
May be all this would be paid back with an astonishing defeat. How could he not focus up?” Some other villagers also said that it was the first time that he had tried to giggle. Lapuroni had always tried to be serious so that people would know that he was a man of know jokes.
After all this was over it came to Lapuroni time to finalize the matter. Usually before war there were usually some tasks which were supposed to be fulfilled and don by reigning leader.
At times people would not believe that there was going to be any war since there were double sure that winning was a matter impossible like collecting diamond at the mwandui mines at shinyanga.
Lapuroni decided to appoint the leader of the raid, who would inveigle many warriors to join in the cattle raid. Many warriors would be required, so, Lapuroni had to choose someone who was famous in warfare activities.
A warrior who was daring and had killed a lion was the suitable one. The chosen leader was to be given the title Olaiguanani. Raiding in our community was taken as a leisure activity, so almost all the youths agreed to participate in the raid. This was actually what Lapuroni had been waiting.
He would even give you a heifer if you would have told him that he was to have the support of all the youths in our community. Of course any one can be happy, so why not our own Lapuroni? An opportunity such as that were his top most expectations.
His task was now to try and organize them well so that they would not let him down. The raid leader who was chosen was also a failure in some aspects. He was unable to gather all the youth and discuss technical issue like how well they would behave when in the alien environment.
The man was chosen because of his physical qualities without even thinking about the unseen qualities such as knowledge, wise decisions and organizing power. Never the less the warriors also had a reward had they come out a successful punitive expedition. They would become richer for they would come out with a large heard of cattle from the invaded society.
The warriors would also be given the maximum respect that they deserved. However, they were supposed to respect the elderly in the society since they were and deserved to be respected. Too, they had to hold a ceremony which was called Eunoto.
This was a warrior graduation ceremony which was to plaster their heads with cow dung and also had to drink blood which was row and readily gushing from an animal’s cut throat. They would also get an opportunity to get married to their loved ones.
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Not so long, after an age passed, Lapuroni
wanted to prove himself a real man. He was
carried by the Dunkirk spirit which always
lasted in a person memory for not more than
three weeks.
Lopejo, wanted to be known since though the
community was rich and wealthy, he was not
recognized by many other communities. The
water that came from the waterfall was
enough to flow into the other community
territory without decreasing; hence the other
community would remain clustered in their
matrimonial territory.
The fact that Lopejo rules was over, Lapuroni
never organized cattle raiding and so our
community did not come into collision with
any other tribe.
There was also a good and a peaceful
period of time which perhaps gave a chance
to communities to go back and re arm their
arsenals. The above were the external and
internal reasons that precipitated the act of
Lapuroni wanting to prove himself a man.
Contrary to the usual way, Lopejo did not
wage war against the people from the east
but decided to wage with the men from the
south. The people from the east had become
less rich and had no enough wealth as our
society had. They were inflicted with a
pandemic disease which made their
territorial boundary to be avoided and be
feared like ghosts.
A contagious disease which affected both
animals and human beings had invaded the
community and claimed a lot of lives in their
area. I’m always fond of comparing the
shortcomings of the disease with that of the
1945 bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Lapuroni had forgotten that the people from
the south were a hard nut as he was
fascinated by the fact that he wanted to be
paramount and be recognized by many.
People who wanted to debar the war said
that Lapuroni would be between Scylla and
Charybdis.
The southern folks were well organized
though they never wanted to show it off.
They were just hiding white to the other
people so if I would put it out. If Lapuroni
would accept the proverbial saying that still
water run deep he would be in a better position of enjoying his creator grautis life.
The folks from the southern had not
engaged in any war in the last few past
decades and Lapuroni thought that he had
gotten a way of showing off himself. “If he
was wise enough he would not have thought
about war. This leader totally needs someone
to advise him before he tries to swallow coals
of fire when red hot. He is actually moving
from the frying pan into the fire. " This was
the direct speech that was quoted from mzee
loguka’s own mouth words.
Someone is asking, where are his advisors? I
too don’t know. The southern people had
earlier on pulverized the people from the
akili moja area. The people from akili moja
area had no one to blame since they were the
course. They killed two people from the
southern community who were found in the
boundary between the two communities.
This made the two communities to exchange
arms.
The southern people is a miscellaneous
group consisting of the porojo, the warevu
and the wakwao. The warevu assimilated the
rest since they were the majority. Their
language being not hackneyed is perhaps
explained by the previous line.
Lapuroni was really trying to be a
wiseacre but he never knew that one man
meat is another man’s poison. Lapuroni in
this all was waiting for the war to begin. One
morning, Cheren , her wife woke up and told
him that she had dreamt of his husband being
killed and other warriors being murdered
with an exception of those who escaped back
to their villages. Your guess is as good as mine and I hope you just guessed
correctly. Our ruler neglected his wife dream after he hardened his heart. Woo unto him!
To Cheren this was an ambition already turn
sour. She was amazed. How could he possibly
not listen to me? It’s true that if wishes were
horse people would be living in the other
planets.
Of course, he said that dreams are not true.
Supposing we all dreamt that we were reach
everyone in our vicinity. Would that happen
without our prior effort? However, since
however hard people would try to mix
immiscible liquids and they couldn’t mix,
Cheren cautioned him not to involve himself
in any kind of war as that would mark his
immature end on this planet of trouble and joy.
Cheren had all the problems on mother earth
on her back. Removing something already set
on Lapuroni mind was not as easy as
chewing a piece of Britannia biscuits. More
so to say, stepping on an egg and cracking it
open to expose the inside contents. While in
campus, I remember we would say" whether
the quail eggs fell on balls, or balls fell on the
quail eggs, the quail eggs must break", bishop
of hope okung ndege sirkal.
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tall, energetic, handsome, black skinned, wise and
brave man. He had shanty, unkempt hair which
was as black as charcoal.
Apart from Lopejo, the region has also been led by
other leaders such as Saruni, Lorok and Lapuroni.
Saruni was said to have helped our community to
tender a large herd of cattle and flock of sheep
during his reign. He was a man of principles and
was ready to listen to any one. But this!!!!! The
animals became fewer once a great drought enveloped the vicinity.
The drought was severe that it made all the animals
that it made all the animals lay topsy-turvy; a scene
denoted from the looks of carcasses. Saruni was
now hated for people said he was a lummox and
had annoyed the ancestral spirits. Another claim
was that since he married from a neighboring
community, a social activity which was greatly
discouraged by our community proved that he was
putting too much food in the mouth than he could
chew.
Lorok was black as his name suggest. He was
different from Saruni in that he had many wives
which were from our community. Lorok had many
children such that it was difficult for him to master
all of them. He must have suffered a great loss
since any young man or lady would request the
father to child attention which he had no guts of
refusing. They would be enveloped under the
pretext that they were his children. However,
Lorok had to cope with all this since at times it was
unavoidable. It was too difficult to be easy for
Lorok to distinguish among his children.
Furthermore, this was directly counted as a
blessing from our creator.
He led the people to of our community in peace till
he joined his forefathers in their comfortable home
of no return. The other leader was Lapuroni. His
name means that he was a thief and that is why
not so many people liked him. In fact if research
were conducted it could only be shown that it was
his closest men who were always ready to support
him in exercising his ambitious, greedy corrupt
leadership.
He got the leadership ties through theft as it was
his younger brother who was supposed to be the
next ruler. He never had the lack of ruling people
for long like his predecessor prominent Lopejo.
Lapuroni would organize raids of cattle to the
nearby community who were less powerful. In so
doing, Lapuroni, made our community to have a
warlike tradition. Lapuroni was also a singer and a
harpist. During his leisure time, he would sing
many songs which were about war, love,
leadership and also the environment. These songs
were sung when the prescribed activity was taking
place. A song of war was always sang by Lapuroni had the following lines.
Come ------come ----- come,
Come --- come --- come my people, Let’s go defend our land.
Chorus,
you and I, are united by the fact, That we are all tribes mates.
Come,
Come my folks, let’s go and defend our land.
Please! Please! My commander,
Ensure that you are well equipped,
With deadly weapons from our kedong, Arsenal.
We must show them that we are, Brave than lions, and that they are, Cowards like hyenas.
Other songs such as love songs were sang when a woman was being led to the Altar. Leadership songs were sang when a new chief was being given the leadership position.
Lapuroni was hot tempered. When he was
furious, even his closest buddy would not try to
mollify him. Everybody knew the ultimate.
Tyrannical! One would be fined either a steer or
pay two ewe. Of course this was inhumane! He
would remain mute and dump as though he had
his nose cut and hen’s beak attached instead. His
commander was only allowed to be beg him to go
and be in the arms of Morpheus when time to rest
his body which now was increasing at an
astonishing volume arrived.
However making Lapuroni raise his back was as
difficult as having the Sahara desert reforested in a
single day. It would happen but only when
something very detesting happened. One fine
morning, as it is said, Lapuroni woke up and
organized a fight with the people from the east
who were a hostile desert tribe. People from the
east were tall, brown folks. People now started
hating him for organizing such raids when
everyone was busy concentrating on how best they
could increase the number of flocks.
In our community, one was actually recognized by
the number of animals he had. Everybody was
now asking the creator God to provide us with a
leader who would rule with justice and equality.
They anticipated him to never organize war with
any folks. Whenever elders would stand in a
gathering and give speech, it was always revered
and no one would turn his head away from their
sentiments. An old man who was wiser gathered
people one fine morning and told them that their
Lord Almighty, their sustainer and provider had
heard their prayers.
A young man, who would be their leader, is sent to
the people so as to rule them. This statement made
the people ears to be gravitated towards the old
man. He went further and noted that the man
would help them tend their livestock well an
increase them to a large number.
Activities such as cattle raiding would be counted
as useless activity. All were glad to hear his
gooey words that left everybody smiling happily
with a package of expectations. He added that the
young man would not need any grouchy person as
this would make him lose all his wisdom. He had to
be pious so as to make his entire dream come to
happen.
He was to have cavalry which was to defend the
region from external aggression and an infantry to
annihilate any rebellion that would arise in his
territorial boundary. Rebels who would refuse to
capitulate, once put behind the bars, would either
Our small village, famously known for its way of leadership and its means of livelihood, is situated in a place between two rivers. The two rivers are known by their specific epithets .
The one that carries more water is called Oloidimari which means something that is able to go by itself. This river supply water to the people living in the path and ways it takes. Also, a good number of wild beasts; name them, buffaloes, giraffes, elephant, do find it to be very important. The other river is the one that carries less water. It is nicknamed Nabebek which means something that is not strong
It provides an abode to animals such as reptiles and Pisces. Reptiles such as crocodiles have made this section of the river to be greatly feared by many people and animals. Even though, there are fish and other edible crustaceans in this river they are not useful since it is a taboo to feed on such animals.
The two rivers converge at a place where there are many stones. The confluence of these two rivers is a great waterfall. Too, the waterfall has been nicknamed and it is known as Nayoloki. This means something that is famous.
The waterfall is believed to have been formed many years that have passed, preferably the Precambrian period. Rumours as always known, say that a great earthquake occurred in one fine evening. It was so strong that it made people standing to tremble like a chameleon on a frail twig.
The following day people were welcomed by the misty and gaggling sound of splashing water. They were glad to discover that a great waterfall had been formed. The person who first saw this was given the name Nadolisho which literally means a person who can see.
The waterfall when viewed from far looks like clouds drifting across in the sky. It is as high as it is and water journeys to the floor in a huge mass in two different styles. From the wee hours till noon most of its water is poured on the right side. It is from then up to the wee hours that the waterfall vomits its water on the left side.
The waterfall canalize the river making it scarier to use boats to sail across it. The water flow is turbulent as the floor of the river contains some synclines and anticlines, this water to have snaky motion of side to side flow.
Trees of all species are found here and do provide a good habitat to animals such as monkeys, owls and vultures. The colubus monkeys are also not to be omitted since they are among the animals that inhabit the tall, bushy, dark trees which are blacker than coal when viewed from below.
The topography of our land is hilly and mountainous and thus livestock keeping is the only best economic activity which can be done presently. Keeping of domestic birds is an alternative in areas infested with worms and anthills.
Animals such as cows, goats, sheep, camel, horses and donkey are reared mostly. Birds such as duck and are the domestic animals that are reared by many folks in this region. Hence, people have decided to keep these animals as some of them require less space, low maintainers cost and requires food and water as their basic needs.
The animals are also resistant to tropical diseases such as rinderpest, East coast fever, and fowl typhoid and the mostly widely contagious foot and mouth disease.
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