The Untold Story of Love in an African Village
There was foolish boy. A really foolish boy who fell in love, with a beautiful village girl.
The charmer he was, charmed she would be. But maybe he was the enchanted.
There’s a homestead between two rivers. There’s one big river called Muooni which flows from the land of the ancestors. The other is a way smaller stream called Kwa Kyambo.
[Kyambo could mean pneumonia or a large tree stump — I think it meant pneumonia.
(Kwa Kyambo — The Place of Pneumonia) ] .
Susu often told us of the decade 1884-94. 'The Disaster' or 'When the Cattle Died’. People and the herds on which they depended were ravaged by outbreaks of epidemic disease.
About I883, bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia spread from the north and lingered for several years. Kwa Kyambo (the place of the Pneumonia) must have been named from this episode.
"The cattle were seriously affected but we were able to concentrate our remaining stock, seeking support from kin and clan.” She said.
Man always survives.
The two rivers co-exist together, independently, each feeds into the other. When it rains, the big river sends its heavy waters up the streams of the small river. There’s a sense of might and power in trying to…
