Njiiri: The witty senior chief behind school named after him

Senior Chief Njiiri wa Karanja [Courtesy]

There were chiefs, and then there were colonial chiefs.

Karanja wa Njiiri was one such chief whose grass-thatched hamlet would attract the high and the mighty. When the chief was in a good mood, he would hold a baraza at his compound, where his 30 wives and their children waited for his word.