Great culture chapter five, Boniface maiyani

 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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GREAT culture chapter four, Boniface maiyani

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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Great culture chapter three, Boniface maiyani

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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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