Picking Pyrethrum
Kikuyus from Nyeri called it Beniku. We called it Mahuwa, translation flowers, because that is what pyretherum is. It is a daisy like flower with white petals and…
Mother on Visiting Day
Picture for a moment my mother from the Settlement Scheme of OlKalou visiting me in school some 180 kilometers away. Her journey will have started early in the…
Lessons from the Coup of 1982
After the news on the attempted coup and the uneasy calm that followed, my father found it necessary to talk to us about those events. My father was…