TIED OF LIVING.“We are forgotten. Where are all our age mate?”One among three old men asked this question while seated under a big tree shadow.https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/consent?authuser=0&part=AJi8hAO1UFW376MRYomGwNmLwaVjpG7DleI8h2RsHZ-ChqFQKrcibZn4C_PHvVAKfy2ypm80GqxXN8gah4R9qSZWZ2-0KJhdd7GmzCwUMiCQdHW03zkQxgIkIm2CGPCPJNxUYAALShC6SqsWuX9PiJE41f_rt4HCFAruuej6nKI9CMme4cCWYnOQreZY3oOoPEpDZeZ4t97dGRYwbcxYPIhwLF4pH6qXbDBG94MebwbhCa78IvNju0qAoGT86HMT58vWi9CvR_l-Ip_pNxr9m48fAQfcih0z-V_dDcF–lX7-QWbpNXfjG4xOIg7NV54ANshFWETwlBmRL5ntZ90ZHlghol4O_QZYxdnlqE0L_5Mzaa9tzV47hfMazxTgF8JIYGbQT8Ye9Rrkss7ias8r7pATU4f3Di3zwHYQSDk_LYzmaI3b6_eummfY_Oop7Ih4SY10h_IZPG_NKtdic6GCu6s7-EICsBEQw&as=S1308830390%3A1693252810144611&client_id=108380595987-j91sm1alavcdgd81i2655kp8q1lbtvrc.apps.googleusercontent.com&pli=1&rapt=AEjHL4OYn03LvJbLUjqtyeZ9UhOLK4l0yWtWNgenRxIquC2taEidKV5pKTzJIQI47Vb7P1z_wXHEajFyyF8th2NDLoudE4R3gA#“By the way, how far and long have we lived?” Another one added.“It’s quite too long and we are not dying” A third man added.“Now, because God has forgotten to call…
Habits That May Be Injurious
Begins from birth and grew with it throughout one’s live and at the end a bad name or shame to the family.
Mannerism is created and natured by family ways of living onset. Nothing comes automatically. A young one starts with exchange of words with a parent, throwing gestures to the parent and gradually to older people is the first indicator followed by the habit of venturing to older peoples’ conversation. In African culture it is offending the older members of the community and a taboo.
Esikiria is the second last born of this undesirable, aboriginal and abnormal family. A pegged family from the family of four siblings. He always spends time with his mother – stays, walks, sleeps with mum. Is it normal? His father works far from home doing night duties and rarely comes as dictated by the nature of duty. Father works as a watchman at Mt. Hebron Hotel in Lorugum town in Turkana County situated to west of the county where domestic animals is the only source of daily income.
Habits That May Be Injurious
Begins from birth and grew with it throughout one’s live and at the end a bad name or shame to the family.
Mannerism is created and natured by family ways of living onset. Nothing comes automatically. A young one starts with exchange of words with a parent, throwing gestures to the parent and gradually to older people is the first indicator followed by the habit of venturing to older peoples’ conversation. In African culture it is offending the older members of the community and a taboo.
Esikiria is the second last born of this undesirable, aboriginal and abnormal family. A pegged family from the family of four siblings. He always spends time with his mother – stays, walks, sleeps with mum. Is it normal? His father works far from home doing night duties and rarely comes as dictated by the nature of duty. Father works as a watchman at Mt. Hebron Hotel in Lorugum town in Turkana County situated to west of the county where domestic animals is the only source of daily income.
Due to some unpredicted and unexplainable circumstances, Esikiria’s mother had delayed to conceive for long time chancing him to be only child in the family. He is loved by both parents, he loved them too. Father comes home in the morning at around 8.00 am and sits far away by the front of the compound watching his animals while coming out of their dens. As routine, his mother after milking goes to town to sell milk to Somali traders and comes back totally drunk in stupefaction manner. She goes straight away to sleep to avoid any disturbance.
Esikiria – by this time is grown up approaching the teenage yet, still misbehaving more badly than a toddler. He abuses and talks ruddily to anyone even the older people and the parent take no action to warn.
After a period of about six months, his father noticed something unusual from his wife. His wife’s stomach is protruding something similar to a pregnancy but he doubted pushing the blame to the recent illness like the hydatid – a disease caused by infection with the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus obtained from dogs. Looyamwar became suspicious and surprised. Esikiria’s mother is surprised but believed her husband may have come and found her drunk and attacked while a sleep.
The nine month period ended with a last born of the family and this became a topic of discussion in the village.