THE SON OF OMBARE who turned into a tree NYAMGODHO SON OF OMBARE Pride comesBefore a fall In far land of gwassi ,Suaba sub County next to the great lake of Victoria of Homa-Ba county in Kenya There lived a man by the name nyamgodho son of Ombare Nyamgodho was born and brought up by poor parents whose only source of livelihood was fishing. Nyamgodho therefore became therefore became a fisherman at a tender age. In formative years, Nyamgodho used to accompany his father during his fishing expeditions until he became of age, old enough to set up and own his fishing traps. Nyamgodho lived in adject poverty , worked in latters and hardly had a meal to place on the table since fishing gave little return. Hisattemptsto many were threatened by poverty since no girl would listen to and consider his proposal .He was the laughing stock of the village as his peers and village girls would often sneer at his inability to marry. Son of Ombare would not even be invited to beer parties where the haves were invited. Son of Ombare would feel rejected. He cursed himself and gods of his ancestors Nyamgodho felt life had to continue despite all these setbacks and continued to set up and check his traps even through he got very little returns from them everyday. In many occasions ,He would set his traps and catch no fish .Son of Ombare would sleep hungry and yawn the night long, Scratch his emaciated belty and wished he were not born. Waking up very hungry one dawn, Son of Ombare decided to check on his traps praying he would catch even a single fish. Reaching the shore where his traps lay, Son of Ombareas usual settled

LWANDA MAGERE. Long time ago there were hostilities between the luo and the kipsigis communities of Kenya over cattle raids and grazing lands. The two communities were always at war raiding killing each other with impunity .The kipsigis suffered heavy casualties more than the luos. The Kipsigis heavily suffered at the hands of respected and feared luowarrior by the name of Lwanda Magere.The word Lwanda means Rock. The body of LwandaMagere was all rock and whenever they went to war with the Kipsigis he would kill many of them since his body could not be pierced with spears .Instead the spear would bend at the tips. The Kipsigis dreaded Lwanda Magare and they wondered where his strength lay. They then hatched plan .The Kipsigis elders sent amassing to the luo that they wanted to meet their elders to make a peace truce since they were tired of the war. The luos agreed and the elders from both communities chose aneutral ground where they met and resolved that they would never again go to war with each other. TheKipsigis agreed at the meeting to award the luo hero warrior LwandaMagere with a beautiful a kipsigis girl as his wife to act as a sign of the peace truce they had made and the luo elders blindly agreed not knowing what the kipsigis had up their sleeves. LwandaMagere was handed his beautiful bride in a pompous ceremony conducted by elders from both communities. LwandaMagere stayed happily together with his new bride and years passed without the two communities going to war. LwandaMagere had come to trust his new bride seriously. One day,Magere fell sick and called his wife and

Sometimes Love do appear to be unsympathetic, it's comes when the flowers must have started falling apart, some times it's comes knocking on the hospital bed. what is this!! I traveled many miles from the City away from hard working time to cool down my mind, my soul, my heart, the travel is by a bus and took 10 hours. - as I was upcountry, I went to my village little town to grab some groceries and whiskey for my dinner. during the time and day, I Saw a young light skin girl walking along the street of the Town, oh she was soft,seems kind,polite, sexy, I was walking along the other side of the street, we all at once spotted each other and we couldn't loose the eyes for seconds, She gave a heartbeat smile, changed her style of walking, my soul was filled with love.joy, although my heart was full of sad, sorrow saying" I wish you could know" I wish she could know what pain I'm going through now, I wish she could know how my lungs are a pain I wish she could know what time I have left to live. I wish she could know that I'm suffering from a lung cancer at Early age. my mind jumped to conclusions: could this love be founded in her, could she be trusted that she won't leave once she notices, then I got the courage to Walk to her on the other side, said HI....she replied....Hey. you're charming, your hands are soft like that of the King, you look shy, you seem to be a dream of my nightmares. I was amazed felt happy again. then asked her straight, will you say the some sweet words when tomorrow the hands turned to hard