People who never owned or seen a donkey up close, describe them as Beasts of Burden. Some people use the donkey imagery to deride people they look down upon “oonire uuru ta funda cia Warubaga” translation: His life is a living hell like the donkeys of Elburgon. I don’t know the story of those Elburgon donkeys but that was a widely used statement. Say what you may about donkeys, to majority of people of Nyandarua, these were the unsung heroes that ‘carried’ our Settlement Schemes from nothing to greatness.
When farmers started using donkeys for transportation, they no longer had to worry about the bad roads. The donkeys trotted diligently on any road surface, footpath or grass, without ever breaking their stride.
Some farmers loaded milk cans or sacks of produce directly on the donkeys back, balancing the load proportionately on either side of their backs. Other farmers built carts for the donkey to pull. Either method worked perfectly.
Once the load was on the donkey, the farmer walked behind or beside the donkey guiding it to where he needed to go. This was such a burden lifted from the farmers shoulders, literally.
