Nairobi inanyesa. In this city even a drizzle is rain. But you know Njoguini he has lived in nairobi longer than anyone i know, from the dig, mvua ya nairobi ikitaka kunyesha, haimbembelezi...it rains, not baby drops, but it rain, rains!
Speaking of babies, no one here ever goes to see newborns anymore. Agneta, that is our cousin from Pa's side, she came to Aunt Nera place , saya mama Vino had just given birth to twins, Mama vino is my Aunt on that side too, now it has been two months, becoz i go count them, since Aunt Nera said we will go see the blesing, you cant call them babies..u know, the spirits might come and whisk them away to twin land. Anways now aunt nera keep saying if she aint no careful the day she will go see Mama Vino, those tow blesings will be the ones opening the door for her, Ancestors forbid! Twapa! Aunt says the beautiful days, when everyone would kam see the newborns is just getting lost..........no napkins,, no foodstuff, no vests, no nothing, some even just kam, and say they are greatly suprised you gave birth quickly it passed there minds, they see baby, and go, i find it truly uncustom of afri-ca-ns to do that, you go go see, an angel and empty handed you arrive? Now they , modern, city, town, urban women call that ceremony they kam with baby things...baby shower, and they do baby shower before the baby arrives. that is insult to the spirits, the West call it counting your eggs before they hatch....... which clothe to buy when no one know if he gone be a boy or he will chose to kam out a gal....... you let the baby be born then , only then all this came after...but they say.......primitive is the word..archaic...ignorant, .........call what they may......tradition is tradition, even Pastors I see dont get buried in the churches, they go take him home, where his forefather, once were!
Speaking of babies, no one here ever goes to see newborns anymore. Agneta, that is our cousin from Pa's side, she came to Aunt Nera place , saya mama Vino had just given birth to twins, Mama vino is my Aunt on that side too, now it has been two months, becoz i go count them, since Aunt Nera said we will go see the blesing, you cant call them babies..u know, the spirits might come and whisk them away to twin land. Anways now aunt nera keep saying if she aint no careful the day she will go see Mama Vino, those tow blesings will be the ones opening the door for her, Ancestors forbid! Twapa! Aunt says the beautiful days, when everyone would kam see the newborns is just getting lost..........no napkins,, no foodstuff, no vests, no nothing, some even just kam, and say they are greatly suprised you gave birth quickly it passed there minds, they see baby, and go, i find it truly uncustom of afri-ca-ns to do that, you go go see, an angel and empty handed you arrive? Now they , modern, city, town, urban women call that ceremony they kam with baby things...baby shower, and they do baby shower before the baby arrives. that is insult to the spirits, the West call it counting your eggs before they hatch....... which clothe to buy when no one know if he gone be a boy or he will chose to kam out a gal....... you let the baby be born then , only then all this came after...but they say.......primitive is the word..archaic...ignorant, .........call what they may......tradition is tradition, even Pastors I see dont get buried in the churches, they go take him home, where his forefather, once were!
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