About three weeks ago, I returned to Mwenendega, the place believed to be the origin of the people of Embu. It is at Mwenendega, as folk myths would have it, where Ndega first met and settled with a woman called Nthaara.
The union was solemnised amid the chattering of colobus monkeys, the nocturnal coquettish laughter of the bush babies and the chirping of bird species that inhabited then vast Ndega forest.