When real men hunted, not staring at televisions

As a teenager growing up in Benditai village in Londiani, Kericho County hunting was the in-thing. Forget about the English Premier League craze, back then real men hunted. The hunting ground was the nearby Kongoni Forest. The place was full of cypress, pines, cedars and several other species as well as thousands of shrubs that housed gazelles and antelopes. Baboons, porcupines and wild cats live here too, but the hunting focused on the edible herbivores mainly.

The hunting was always on Sunday thus it clashed with church attendance. Young men carrying bows and arrows, pangas and rungus assembled at the edge of the forest. Their whistling attracted village dogs in their multitudes.