The Colours of Her Rosary
Kerubo leads the Wednesday rosary on beads from Italy, a different colour for every part of the world. That afternoon her husband’s brother arrives from the hills with a bunch of bananas and a…
Saturdays
The Village Boy
Every Saturday, a story. A boy grows up on a former settler farm in the highlands in the years when every child carried a seat to school, then leaves for a mission school by the lake and later for Nairobi. The stories arrive out of order, each with its place and year, and are told by whoever was in the room.
Kiti Moto
Every child at Farawe Primary carried a seat to school. In 1985, the first year of the new system, an inspector came from town to count them.