Clarion Call for Water
I still have hope that God will send Nyandarua a hero or heroes who will address the water problem once and for all. Politicians usually have an agenda…
Pioneer Parents Background
If you are from Nyandarua and you are lazy, I would like to know which part you grew up in or what kind of parents raised you. There…
Training the Children
Children were a free labor, gifted to parents by God. Our relationship with our parents was simple. We worked the land, did as we were told, and in…
Farm Hands
Owing to the size of majority of farms, most families had hired farm hands. The Settlement Scheme was fairly new, so there were not many people from the…
OlKalou Town
As I mentioned earlier about my embarrassment of the OlKalou name, anyone who knew the town back then in the 1970s would agree with me. Sort of. There…
Returning Home: Dry Season
OlKalou passengers were hurriedly dropped off on the Nairobi Nyahururu highway at Agip Petrol station, the impatient bus driver almost leaving with your precious luggage. The luggage was…
Returning Home: Wet Season
Woe unto you if you came home during the rainy season. We all knew the rain patterns of OlKalou. The rain usually started falling in the late afternoon,…
OlKalou Landmarks
OlKalou town had very few established permanent buildings. The prominent places you noticed were the two Primary schools, St. Joseph and AC Primary. There was no high school…
Veterans of OlKalou
There were some veterans of OlKalou town that everybody seemed to know or recognized. Most were the business people who provided goods and services to the people of…
Mukurino – Businessman
I have mentioned Mukurino many times in the previous posts because he was a well known service provider to the farming communities of OlKalou and beyond. His name…