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Era of the scared man

By Benson Riungu

I have had occasion to remark that if my great forebear, Kanyonga, he who was the proud husband and undisputed lord to 16 wives and countless children, came back to life today, he would be so dismayed by what he saw that he would demand to immediately die again.

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