Hawkers for warm things

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Hawkers for warm things

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Cool dry season
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation


Hawkers and vendors of things to keep warm


glove vendor


hot coffee vendor

porridge vendor

scarf hawker

sweater hawker

More is here for now.


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There are also hawkers and peddlers during the other seasons. Some which are there at any time will be seen as a topic for haiku.




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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


Jevanjee Garden—
thick sweater of today’s
preacher


cold night--
a coffee vendor jostle in
the bus stop


coffee thermos--
a customer touches it
before buying

cold bus stage—
the piling of the white
coffee cups

city hawker
the thick scarf layer
on his neck


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referendum day--
a sweet peddler moves with
the voter's queue

. Referendum Day August 2010 　


Caleb Mutua


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It is also worth mentioning the uji vendors.
(uji is a kind of porridge made from maize, not oats.)
Unlike the coffee vendors, these have been there for a long time. In this cold season, they seem to have increased. Most of the porridge vendors are women, and they carry the hot porridge in a 5 liter jerrycan, mostly yellow in colour. In hot and dry season, they peddle the porridge to construction workers and other workers in their respective work-places in the morning. In the evening, they do the same. Since the cold started, the vendors seem to have changed their pattern because I now
see them at any time of the day.


Porridge vendor—
he shakes and shakes till
the last spill

Caleb Mutua



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linen shirt --
another hawker calls
as I pass

catcalls --
the hawkers melt for the
city askaris

Anthony Njoroge


askari ... Swahili word meaning "soldier"


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