Why Nyamira is Kenya's dullest, backward place

Nyamira contributes nothing to the Kenyan economy. The most fun you can have there is walking through a luxuriantly green tea plantation, or if you want some action, go right ahead and pick tea Photo: Courtesy

There is no doubt that Nyamira County is the dullest place in the whole of the Milky Way. I have never been to a place that so decidedly backward, lackadaisical, with no promise of a better tomorrow.

Nothing goes on in Nyamira. Nothing. Occasionally, a man hacks his wife and two children to death. Annually, they lynch elderly women accusing them of sorcery. Never mind that Nyamira is probably the most religious county and it is 2016-for crying out loud.