Here Comes Social Media
As we were musing with the idea that our children will find us impressive and sophisticated, BOOM, came the social media and our children took to it like…
Train: (Tereni) Comes To OlKalou
One of my fondest childhood memories growing up in OlKalou was hearing the whistle of the train twice a day, every day. You could set your clocks on…
Train: Our Time Keeper
Wrist watches and clocks were very rare back in the day, something that is hard to imagine today. Wrist watches were a status symbol. You saw somebody with…
Train: School Field Trips
The train was also the affordable transportation that most local Primary Schools depended on for taking their students on educational field trips. I never got a chance to…
Kenya Farmers Association (KFA)
This was a government ran organization that sold everything the farmers needed. Their shop in OlKalou was at a corner of a building opposite the current site of…
KCB: Satellite Branch
There were no banks in OlKalou. The closest we came to a bank was a “Satellite” Branch of KCB. You wonder what a Satellite bank is and how…
Jomo: Hides and Skins
He was a middle aged man from our Settlement Scheme who ran the only Hides and Skins stall in OlKalou. His shed was behind the KFA shop facing…
Mathenge: Newspapers and Shoes
He was the newspaper vendor and shoe cobbler in OlKalou. For all my years in OlKalou, I never saw Mathenge standing up. Like every good shoe cobbler of…
Safari Rally Comes to OlKalou
My brothers and I never read the newspaper except looking at the pictures. Maybe we couldn’t read English very well, but who is asking. The only time we…
Recycling Old Newspapers
After the newspapers were read and done with, here are some of the other vital jobs they were used for: Pot holder. Old newspapers were like hand mittens…