Hymns of endurance, hope lift Nyamira lumberjacks

From a distance two men are heard singing amidst the sounds of a gigantic saw eating into a log of a tree down at the river valley in Bundo village, Nyamira County.

These songs may not make a lot of sense to a distant listener as some rhymes get swallowed by the saw’s sound, but to these two famous lumberjacks of Nyamira, their instant music composition re-energises them to continue with the work at hand. Closer you will meet two bare-chested men, Joseph Minda and his compatriot Charles Obino as they pull their hands up and down, doing what they have always done best for more than 50 years — lumbering.