State must stop paying lip service to equality, ethnicity

KENYA: Accept New Year greetings from the Green Village. I am filing this piece on the last day of the old year. Here in Emanyulia we are still waiting for the cacophony that drives away Nyababa, the wicked spirit that is the mother of all trouble. Around here, bad things don’t just happen. They are the work of malevolent spirits and their disciples. Bad years, too, are the handicraft of wicked spirits.

Nyababa is the ultimate author of misfortune, as I have told you before. She is at once the definitive angel of wickedness and the paramount mischief-maker. Across the road, they call her Nyawawa. In our highly patriarchal arrangement, Nyababa has to be a woman. When good things happen, we attribute them to a masculine angel of benevolence while bad ones belong to feminine malevolence!