Wonders of Wanda

 The Babukusu have been in love with history from as early as 1800. This love for history is exhibited in how they named their age sets (bibingilo/chibololi). Apart from the main name of the age set as adopted from the Kalenjin, they added a second that helped them remember when a certain historical event happened. Take note below:   Omunyange 1848: Sia Masafu Omuala (When a leader from the Baala Clan died) 1850: Sia kisenge 1852: Sia khafululu 1854: Sia Siakala wa Mukhwana 1856: Sia Kisila 1858: Sia Nasiombe Maina 1860: Sia Sifumbukha 1862: sia Makheti wa Nelima owakwa Ebunyala. People from the Babulo clan killed Watiki (Omubuya) and refused to pay (khurunga kumurwe). So the Babuya went to Bunyala to have them Bewitched. The  witchcraft spared Tototo (according to Gideon Were, this one was a powerful leader) and killed Makheti. 1864: sia Wachiye wa Lwasaka a.k.a Wachiye wa Naumbwa (this great prophet died in this year). People from the clan of Bakwangwa claimed that Njab...

 Clans of Babukusu The Babukusu of Kenya are divided into 6 major clans namely: 1. Basilikwa 2. Bamwalie  3. Bamalaba 4. Banabayi 5. Baneala 6. Bakikayi Over the years, they have further divided these clans into smaller clans perhaps to completely get rid of inbreeding. Consider the divisions below: 1. Basilikwa The descendants of the Sirikwa Tribe (an extinct Kalenjin/Masai Tribe). They include the Batukwiika (Bakitang'a, Bakwangwa,Basakha, Baluleti and Banambobi), Bakimweyi (Bamukhwana, Banabuyoka, Batolometi and Banesoba), Babuulo, Babambo, Basefu, Bachemayi, Bakolati, Babiichachi, Batilu, Basimisi, Baliango, Barwa, Bakiyabi (Banikeyo,a Banelima and Balikiywa) among others. 2. Bamwalie (Tachoni) They were initially referred to as Bayumbu. Kitimule from Batukwiika discovered them after they were thought to be Kalenjins and cannibals. He established that they were not Kalenjins because they spoke a language like his. They include Barefu, Basonge, Babangachi, Bahabiya, Basang'...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written by Robert Frost in 1922 and published in a collection titled New Hampshire in 1923. It is said that he wrote it in a sitting of 20 minutes while taking a break from writing a longer poem, New Hampshire. This is testimony to his poetic prowess considering the high level of expertise used. The poem is written in a perfect iambic tetrameter, which many poets cannot do in a single sitting.  The poem: Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though;  He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.  My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.  He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.  The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.  The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  But I have promises to keep,  And miles to go before I sle...

Welcome to Kenya sir A country where we know no ideologies But in books and exams Welcome to Kenya sir Where parties are formed  Not because of shared ideologies  But shared criminal records  Welcome to Kenya sir A country where people vote Not because they believe in certain ideologies But because they want to save people that killed their brothers Welcome to Kenya sir Where democracy means nothing But what the party owner says.  Again, I say, welcome to Kenya  Sir. 

I want to be a hustler one day So that I can carry money in suitcases  And make people happy  Because money washes hearts I want to be a hustler one day So that I can fataly injure  Those who don't love me But still get away  I want to be a hustler one day  So that my people practice their suffrage  Based on my best quality: being a hustler Nothing more nothing less  I want to be a hustler one day. In fact, hustle so hard   With their bloods and lives I want to be a hustler one day So that only my good is remembered  And my evil is interred with me Unlike what Shakespeare believed I want to be a hustler one day  So that the verses I write Are no more free.  Son of Namakangala,  I want to be a hustler when I grow up. @Wanda the Teacher

Those Winter Sundays is based on the real-life experiences of Robert Hayden, its writer. It talks about how he took his foster parents' love for granted only to regret later, when he grew old enough to understand that they sacrificed to give him a good life. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blue-black cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labour in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one. thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of the house. Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well, What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? Analysis  In the first stanza, the persona recounts how his father woke up early just to prepare a fire in order to drive the cold out for the benefit of the persona and the rest of the family.  The ...

Reading through many sources both online and in print, you realize that drawing a line between theme and subject matter is difficult even to literary critics. Some definitions use many different words to differentiate these two terminologies but end up talking about the same thing.  This article, therefore, comes in handy. It seeks to alleviate this problem by demarcating a clear line between theme and subject matter. Theme Theme is the central idea not only in poetry but in all types of works of literature.  In the analysis of theme, literary critics must go deeper than merely looking and what the poem is about. They must look at the happenings in the poem and relate them to the society.  This, therefore, means that theme has to do with the significance of the occurrences in the poem to the society.  It should be noted that in K.C.S.E, the examiner expects the candidate to describe theme in one or several words (should not be too long) then illustrate it. For exampl...