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‘Daktari wa mapenzi’ must come back, there's more work to be done

I read with amusement the story of a man, a snake and an eagle. It was a chaotic tale, involving questionable aerodynamics and a snake so dedicated to the task ‘at hand’ that it had hired an eagle as its private Uber.
Not only was it a scene straight out of my Class 8 composition book, it also bore all the indicators of good, old-fashioned waganga involvement. And I, for one, could not be more thrilled at the prospect of their return.

For whatever reason, those spiritual consultants had disappeared from the limelight in recent years. I cannot remember the last time I heard a classic waganga story, even before that pandemic sent us to work from our bedrooms.

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