Kisongo Market Tanzania

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Kisongo Market

***** Location: Tanzania
***** Season: Topic for Haiku
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation


Kisongo Masai Market in Tanzania

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Kisongo goat market






Photos by Patrick Wafula


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Two haiku and photo by Patrick Wafula




Kisongo Market—
polished gourds gleaming
in the noon sun


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the hunchback
selling reedbaskets —
Kisongo Market



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Sand harvesting

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Sand harvesting, sand mining

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Long Rains
***** Category: Humanity

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Kenya has no policy on sand harvesting

National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) says despite devastating effects of climate change the country has no guidelines to check sand harvesting especially in arid and semi-arid areas where the practice has compounded the problem of drought.
source : www.ecoearth.info


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NATIONAL SAND HARVESTING GUIDELINES 2007

“Sand” means sedimentary material finer than gravel and coarser than silt with grains between 0.06mm and 2mm in diameter and includes stones, coral, earth and turf but does not include silica sand.

“Sand harvesting”, means the removal, extraction, harvesting or scooping of sand from designated sites.

“Sand dealer” means any person(s) approved to harvest, remove, extract, scoop, transport or sell sand as provided

source : www.nema.go.ke


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Sand harvesting comes with the long rain.
The long sand lorries come from Ukambani, when both the seasonal and permanent rivers flood.



meandering stream —
a sweating sand harvester
shovels again and again

Photo and Haiku : Patrick Wafula


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***** Sand (suna)


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Plantation

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Plantation activities

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation


Cultivation of fields and planting of seeds and seedlings are
kigo for the start of the two rainy seasons.
We collect the words that we associate with both activities.


cultivating shambas
. Shamba garden 　

digging the soil
planting seeds
planting seedlings


fertilizer
jembe
manure
seedlings

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jembe


a jembe is a hoe (a digging tool with a long stick handle) commonly used in Kenya's farms. At times a jembe can be so heavy that you just have to remove mud by either knocking one against another or by using a stick.

. . another photo of a jembe


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Plantation haiku by Sibiko Yamame Winslause


heavy jembes-
he knocks them together
dropping mud

ploughed ridges-
her two fingers drop maize seed
in turn

Monday morning-
wet red soil sticks
on his feet

rising sun-
he follows manila rope
digging holes


he repairs
his wheelbarrow tyre-
afternoon drizzle


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