Mkokoteni hand cart

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Mkokoteni hand cart

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

The mkokoteni (plural : mikokoteni)
is a hand cart, pulled by a stong man, and usually delivering fruit and vegetables to the smaller traders in the suburbs. Mikokoteni can also be used to deliver furniture and kitchen appliances from the shops and stalls to the new owners, to help people moving their residence from house to house, or any other purpose which involves moving goods within the city of Nairobi or a similar radius up-country. If the weight being moved is very heavy, there may be two people pulling. If the journey is downhill, a second person may be needed to brake the speed of the cart.

If the cart is empty, the second person may sit on it for the ride, and sometimes children too enjoy the same.



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Things found on the way


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HAIKU



water shortage--
a man pulls a mkokoteni
with empty jerricans

~ Emmanuel Muteti

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move !
a donkey pauses after pulling
an overloaded mkokoteni

mkokoteni --
he strugles to pull it
on the rocky road

~ Isaac Ndirangu



struggling to pull
a mkokoteni up a slope --
punctured tyres

~ Peter Kalivo



a man pulling
a heavy mkokoteni --
sweat droplets

water shortage --
a man pulling a mkokoteni
on the road

~ Stephen Macharia



hooting vehicle --
a mkokoteni crosses
at the junction

~ Antony Onyango


packed mikokoteni
block the market entrance -
furniture shop

~ Mango Junior





heavy breathing--
a tired man pulling
his mkokoteni

~ Douglas Nugi


MORE
. mkokoteni haiku
July 3, 2011


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