tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95713072024-03-06T20:30:45.289-08:00SAIJIKI FOR KENYA AND TROPICAL REGIONS<br>
Collection of Season Words (kigo) for Haiku from Tropical Regions around the World
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This is an educational site for reference purposes of haiku poets worldwide.
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a project of the<br>
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Dr. Gabi Greve, Daruma Museum, Japan
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<br>Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-1110850218522899942024-03-05T20:00:00.000-08:002024-03-06T16:40:59.403-08:00Welcome !<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to Worldkigo TOP . ]</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2000_07_01_happyhaiku_archive.html">Basic Theories of Japanese Haiku !</a>Study writing Haiku !<br />
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<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/12/seasons-and-categories.html">Seasons and Categories</a> - Learn the Basics of World Kigo<br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/kenyan-seasons.html">Kigo and haiku topics in Kenya --<br />
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Table of contents<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grevegabi4000/sets/72157625448472652/">. . . The Photo Album : KENYA </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/kenya-haiku-clubs.html">The Haiku Clubs of Kenya since 2006</a><br />
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..... <a href="http://www.haigaonline.com/issue7-2/kenya/00.htm">Haiga from the Haiku Clubs </a>Haigaonline 7-2, 2006<br />
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..... <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/haikuinformation/message/313">Japanese Culture Week in Nairobi! </a>Teaching Haiku.<br />
February 2008<br />
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<a href="https://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2006/12/getting-to-know-kenya.html"><span style="font-size: 130%;">. Getting to Know Kenya . </span> </a><br />
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<a href="https://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2006/12/wildlife-in-kenya.html"><span style="font-size: 130%;">. Wildlife in Kenya . </span> </a><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Please check the main index for more information.</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/">Main Index of the World Kigo Database</a></p><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>THE KENYA SAIJIKI</strong><br />
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<strong>Editor: Isabelle Prondzynski</strong> </span> <br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/african-haiku.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Haiku from Africa . </span> </a><br />
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<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2011/02/bahrain.html">Bahrain </a> <br />
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<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypt.html">Egypt </a> <br />
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<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2011/02/libya-tripolis-2011.html">Libya </a> <br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/07/ghana-saijiki.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">Ghana SAIJIKI </span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/08/trinidad-and-tobago.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">Trinidad and Tobago SAIJIKI</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Use your browser to find a word in this index.....</span></strong> <strong>OR<br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-size: large;"><b>Patrons' Kukai August 2017 </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">***** Location: Greenspan Mall, Kayole, Kenya</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">***** Season: Cold dry season</span><br />
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<b>Explanation</b><br />
On 19 August 2017, the Patrons (<b>Patrick Wafula, Andrew Otinga, Paul Kanga and Jackson Siva</b>) of the four schools participating in Kenya Saijiki met together with the Moderator (Isabelle Prondzynski) in the Java House Café in Greenspan Mall, Kayole, Nairobi. The objective was to discuss the progress of haiku in their respective schools and to exchange ideas. The just concluded General Election was also raised.<br />
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An inter club meeting is planned for September, and will take place at the invitation of the Beavers in their school. It is expected that 123 haijin will travel from the other schools to participate in the meeting. Computer certificates will be presented on this occasion. Patrons to co-ordinate with Mr Kimani so that this can be done at the agreed date.<br />
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Dates for the 2018 kukai were decided upon as follows :<br />
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24 February 2018. Patrick Wafula will report on possible venues at the next Patrons' meeting in November or December.<br />
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29 September 2018. Kenkyo na Kokoro will host this kukai.<br />
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<b>Ideas for Kenya Saijiki :</b><br />
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~ Isabelle regularly to send the haiku clubs one haiku for their comments and appreciation, and one haiku to be revised and improved.<br />
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~ Isabelle to set themes on which the haiku clubs should research and report in time for the February kukai, the result of their research and the accompanying haiku written by themselves to be presented at the kukai. Each haiku club and the Patrons received a topic for research :<br />
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Patrons to focus on the jacaranda tree and blossom<br />
Bamboochas to focus on Advent and Christmas Eve<br />
Parrots to focus on Christmas Day<br />
Beavers to focus on New Year's Day<br />
Kenkyo na kokoro to focus on the First Things of the new year<br />
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~ Haiku clubs to make use of haiga (pictures combined with haiku) or haibun (narrative combined with haiku) -- each haiku club to prepare its report in the form of a haiga or haibun for the February kukai.<br />
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~ Rewards for haiku consistency and quality to be presented by Isabelle at kukai meetings.<br />
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We enjoyed a ginkoo in the Greenspan Mall compound and shared the haiku we had written. These follow below.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/35941625743">. . . CLICK here for the Photo by Isabelle Prondzynski !</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">my dusty shoes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on the clean pavement --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Greenspan Mall<br />
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Java House window --<br />
a human face in the sun<br />
stares at me<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/36580996362/">. . . CLICK here for the Photo by Isabelle Prondzynski !</a> <br />
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Java House lounge --<br />
a palm tree trembling<br />
in the morning breeze<br />
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sparkling dew<br />
in a canna lily's bud --<br />
bright sun<br />
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ferns peeping<br />
from a bamboo hedge --<br />
Java House<br />
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the soft rustle<br />
of a bamboo hedge --<br />
gentle breeze<br />
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scorching sun --<br />
star grass in Greenspan<br />
has turned brown<br />
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green algae grown<br />
on stagnant water --<br />
metal tap<br />
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a bud, an onion<br />
or a bean in the froth --<br />
cappuccino </span><br />
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<b>~ Patrick Wafula</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/36750758415">. . . CLICK here for the Photo by Isabelle Prondzynski !</a> <br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">afternoon breeze -- <br />
red canna lily blossoms<br />
tremble and tremble<br />
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a can top hanging<br />
in the bamboo hedge --<br />
Greenspan Mall<br />
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a black ant emerges<br />
out of a red soil heap -<br />
children's fun park<br />
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a bee lands<br />
on red canna lily blossoms --<br />
fun park terrace<br />
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oxalis leaves<br />
sway in the afternoon wind --<br />
Java Garden<br />
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fun park entrance --<br />
green algae covering<br />
an artificial swamp </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">canna lilies<br />
shake in the afternoon breeze --<br />
Greenspan Mall<br />
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canna lilies --<br />
I count seven budding stalks<br />
at Greenspan Mall<br />
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oxalis<br />
grown under a palm tree --<br />
Greenspan Mall<br />
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Greenspan garden --<br />
three patrons staring<br />
at macdonald's eye<br />
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green algae<br />
cover an artificial swamp --<br />
Greenspan Mall entrance </span><br />
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<b>~ Paul Kanga</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">at Greenspan Mall --<br />
three young girls jumping<br />
on a bouncing castle<br />
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at Java House Café --<br />
a kitten hiding<br />
in a flower bed<br />
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at Java field --<br />
a black wasp<br />
flying in couch grass<br />
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at java field --<br />
a mother on the pavement<br />
scrolling her phone<br />
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at Greenspan Mall --<br />
four white cars parked<br />
on the playground<br />
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strolling on the pavement --<br />
a mother with a baby<br />
strapped to her back </span><br />
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<b>~ Jackson Siva</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greenspan Mall --<br />
a slight breeze ripples<br />
the little pond<br />
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Greenspan Mall --<br />
water toys drifting<br />
in the little pond<br />
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lazy Saturday --<br />
a tall merry-go-round<br />
stays idle </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/36611304931">. . . CLICK here for the Photo by Isabelle Prondzynski !</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greenspan Mall --<br />
a toy car is parked<br />
in the last fee space<br />
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Greenspan Mall --<br />
coloured traffic cones mark out<br />
a parking space </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/36581009872">. . . CLICK here for the Photo by Isabelle Prondzynski !</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">days of drought --<br />
tall water tanks guard<br />
precious supplies<br />
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seeking the shade --<br />
a shopping mall entrance<br />
provides some cool </span><br />
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<b>~ Isabelle Prondzynski</b><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>.................... List of Seasonal Words </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>from Kenya and other tropical areas<br />
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In Kenya, we have the following <strong>haiku seasons</strong>:<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>.. .. .. hot dry season</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>.. .. .. long rains</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>.. .. .. cool dry season</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>.. .. .. short rains</strong></span><br />
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Some of the rainy season kigo appear twice in the course of the year.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">.. .. .. .. .. Seasonal Items</span><br />
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<strong>hot and dry season </strong><br />
<strong>(roughly November to March, with January being the hottest month)</strong><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-year-starts.html">-- Buying textbooks </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-year-starts.html">-- Buying school uniforms </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/03/cassia-blossom.html">-- Cassia blossom </a>Golden Shower Tree (Cassia fistula). Drumstick Tree (Moringa oleifera).<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/03/caterpillars-kenya.html">Caterpillar, Hairy Caterpillar</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/1750">-- Census </a><br />
-- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/christmas.html">Christmas worldwide</a><br />
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-- <a href="http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2012/02/lip-lips-kuchibiru.html">Dry lips </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/04/dust.html">Dust </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-exams.html">Exam results</a>KCPE and KCSE Exam Registration and Results<br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3119">February rainfall </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-things.html">First things, New Year </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/06/form-one-entrants.html">Form One entrants and monolisation</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/06/frangipani-plumeria.html">Frangipani, Plumeria </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/07/goats.html">Goat Meat</a>, also Goats in general<br />
ice cream<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/10/jamhuri-day.html">Jamhuri Day</a> (12 December)<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/10/january.html">January</a><br />
- - - <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5415">- Njaanuary ( njaa and (Jan)nuary </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maasai-cattle.html">Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/mabati-iron-sheets.html">Mabati shimmering roofs </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maize-green-maize.html">Maize, Green Maize </a>(for corn/maize see below)<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mango.html">Mango (ripe fruit)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4008">National Drama Festival </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-year-shin-nen.html">New Year </a><br />
--- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year-resolutions.html">New Year's resolution 2012 </a> <br />
open shoes<br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2846">Orchid Show, Nairobi </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/grasses.html">Papyrus and other grasses </a>couch grass, napier grass, African star grass<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-year-starts.html">Paying school fees </a><br />
-- peaches, ripe peaches<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/04/plum-fruit.html">Plums, ripe plums, plum fruit</a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3396">Scorching sun </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/02/urine-smell.html">Smell of urine </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-year-starts.html">Start of new school year </a>Kenya<br />
... ... see also <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/07/schoolyear-begins.html">Start of Schoolyear, worldwide </a><br />
<a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2008/07/sweat-ase.html">-- sweating </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentines-day-2012-kenya.html"> Valentine’s Day, St Valentine’s Day, Valentine </a> <br />
-- vest<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/11/water-shortage.html">Water shortage</a> , drought<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/grasses.html">Weeds </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/11/world-aids-day.html">World AIDS Day</a><br />
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<strong>long rains (roughly March to May)</strong><br />
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-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/msearch?query=Amaranthus&submit=Search&charset=utf-8">Amaranth, Amaranthus </a> leaf vegetable <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/bombax-chorisia-tree.html">Bombax blossom </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/06/first-rainfall.html">First rainfall, imminent rain </a><br />
-- bullfrogs <a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2005/06/frog-kawazu-kaeru.html">Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide </a><br />
-- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/05/easter.html">Easter </a><br />
-- flooding<br />
-- flying termites <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/termites.html">kumbi kumbi </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/grasses.html">Grass, fresh grass, green grass, young grass </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2582">Guava fruit </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/gumboots.html">Gumboots, gum boots</a><br />
-- heavy raindrops<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/09/ibis-hadada.html">Ibis (Hadada)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigoparkinglot/message/5">Labour Day</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/bahati-0601.html">Long Rains Haiku by Bahati Club</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/12/long-rains.html">Long Rains </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/mabati-iron-sheets.html">Mabati roofs rusting and harvesting rainwater </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/msearch?query=mater+heart&submit=Search&charset=utf-8">Mater Hospital Heart Run </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mosquito-swahili-mbu.html">Mosquitoes in Kenya</a><br />
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-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mud-matope.html">Mud (Swahili : matope) </a><br />
including: Brickmaking, Dry mud, Bukusu Initiation (Circumcision) <br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2298">Mudslide, landslide </a><br />
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-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2007/04/palm-sunday.html">Palm Sunday </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/plantation.html">Plantation activities </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2274">Pneumonia </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/04/power-failure.html">Power failure, blackout </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/06/puddle-puddles.html">Puddle, puddles </a><br />
-- rain shower<br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2581">Rhinoceros beetle</a> , a scarab beetle<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/sand-harvesting.html">Sand harvesting, sand mining </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2297">Shoe wiper </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/06/steppingstone.html">Stepping stones, step-stone bridge </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/02/thorn-tree.html">Thorn tree flowers </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/msearch?query=UEFA+&submit=Search&charset=utf-8"> UEFA league </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/09/umbrella.html">Umbrella </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/02/urine-smell.html">Urine smell, smell of urine </a> <br />
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<strong>cold, cool and dry season </strong><br />
<strong>(roughly from June to September, with July being the coldest month)</strong><br />
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-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2607">August moon </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/01/avocado-pear.html">Avocado pear (Kikuyu : Mûkorobîa)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/beanie-cap.html">Beanie cap </a>Kenya<br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4323">Budget Day </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/bukusu-circumcision.html">Bukusu Initiation / Circumcision </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigoparkinglot/message/1893l">Cold Dew (kanro) worldwide</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/03/cool-dry-season.html">Cold dry season, cool dry season </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/07/cold-water.html">Cold water </a><br />
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<a href="http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2006/11/trumpet-flower.html">Datura suaveolens, Moonflower, Angel's Trumpet, trumpet plant </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/04/day-of-african-child.html">Day of the African Child (16 June)</a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/04/dust.html">Dust </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4320">Euro Games, UEFA European Football Championship </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/glove-gloves.html">Glove, gloves </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/06/frangipani-plumeria.html">Frangipani, Plumeria </a> <br />
-- freezing<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/hawkers-for-warm-things.html">Hawkers for warm things </a>glove, hot coffee, <em>uji</em> maize porridge, scarf, sweater ...<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/irish-potatoes.html">Irish potatoes (viazi) </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/brazier-jiko.html">Jiko (brazier) </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/1565">July </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/topics/5178">Loquat, loquats - fruit </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maasai-cattle.html">Maasai Cattle (Masai Cattle)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/mabati-iron-sheets.html">Mabati roors collect dew </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/madaraka-day.html">-- Madaraka Day (1 June) </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maize-green-maize.html">Maize, Green Maize </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/martyrs-day.html">Martyrs’ Day </a>Uganda<br />
-- <a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.jp/2006/01/morning-glory-asagao.html">Morning glory, fam. Ipomoea ( </a> <br />
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-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/02/nairobi-bomb-day.html">Nairobi Bomb Day</a> (7 August)<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/02/nairobi-int-trade-fair.html">Nairobi International Trade Fair </a>(end of September)<br />
-- no meetings (August)<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/03/oranges.html">Oranges (Swahili : Mchungwa) </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/08/referendum-august-2010.html">Referendum August 2010 </a><br />
-- <a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2008/05/sunflower-himawari.html">Sunflower </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/07/sesbania-tree.html">Sesbania Tree (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.) </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2466">Shivering, to shiver </a><br />
-- start of university year<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/grasses.html">Weeds </a><br />
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<strong>short rains (roughly October and November)</strong><br />
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-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/1339">Aramanthus, vegetable </a><br />
-- bullfrogs > <a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2005/06/frog-kawazu-kaeru.html">Frog (kawazu, kaeru) worldwide</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/06/first-rainfall.html">First rainfall, imminent rain </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/1871">Ocotber rain</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/06/flamboyant-tree.html">Flamboyant Tree (Swahili : Mjohoro)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/331">Flooding in 2006 </a><br />
-- flying termites <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/termites.html">kumbi kumbi </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/07/graduation.html">Graduation Ceremony in Kenya </a><br />
... ... see also <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/07/graduation.html">Graduation (sotsugyoo) worldwide</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/03/grevillea-tree.html">sGrevillea tree </a> Grevillea Robusta . Mgrivea (Swahili), Mûkima (Kikuyu)<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/gumboots.html">Gumboots, gum boots</a><br />
-- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/10/jacaranda-tropical-tree.html">Jacaranda blossom </a><br />
-- heavy raindrops<br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/03/jomo-kenyatta.html">Kenyatta Day </a><br />
-- Messiah for the Hospice<br />
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-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kigohotline/message/1535">Moi Day (10 October) </a>renamed :<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/03/jomo-kenyatta.html">. . Mashujaa Day since 2010 </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mosquito-swahili-mbu.html">Mosquitoes in Kenya</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mud-matope.html">Mud (Swahili : matope)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2298">Mudslide, landslide </a><br />
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-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/marathon.html">Nairobi Marathon </a><br />
-- -- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/plantation.html">Plantation activities </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/04/power-failure.html">Power failure, blackout </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/06/puddle-puddles.html">Puddle, puddles </a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2297">Shoe wiper </a><br />
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-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/school-exams.html">School exams KCSE / KCPE </a><br />
------ <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/short-rains-season.html">Short Rains and more kigo about this season</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/06/steppingstone.html">Stepping stones, step-stone bridge </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2012/02/thorn-tree.html">Thorn tree - fresh leaves </a> <br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/08/tipu-tree.html">Tipu tree (Tipuana tipu) </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/09/umbrella.html">Umbrella </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/11/glossary.html">.. .. .. Glossary of Kenyan Terms and more Haiku Topics</a><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">............. Topics for which the season changes</span></strong><br />
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-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/04/dewali.html">Diwali (Devali, Divali)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/06/ramadan-in-kenya.html">Ramadan in Kenya </a><br />
-- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/06/ramadan-ends-idd-ul-fitr.html">Ramadan ends (Idd ul Fitr) </a><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">............. Non-seasonal Topics </span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/01/ageing-in-kenya.html">Ageing ... </a>Getting old in Kenya. Grandfather, Grandmother<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2653">Akala ... Sandals</a><br />
<a href="http://washokufood.blogspot.com/2009/12/aloe.html">Aloe vera </a><br />
<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.jp/2012/10/antelope.html">Antelope </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5016">Arfat, scarf of a muslim woman </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/01/arusha-tanzania.html">Arusha </a>Tanzania<br />
. . . <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/11/brick-making-tanzania.html">Brick making in Arusha </a><br />
. . . <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2275">Namanga-Arusha Highway Road</a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2007/07/bananafruit.html">Banana </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2915">Banana ring, to carry things </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2610">Bat, bats . . . and the Mukuyu tree </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/04/beggar-beggars.html">Beggar </a><br />
<a href="http://washokufood.blogspot.com/2010/03/bisketto-kukkii-cookies.html">Bisquits and cookies</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3207">Boda boda, motorbike taxi, motorcycle taxi </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/boma-homestead.html">Boma Homesteads</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kigohotline/message/1493">Buibui, to cover the head and face of a Muslim woman</a> face veil<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/bukusu-culture.html">Bukusu Culture, Babukusu People</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2916">Bull fighting, bullfight </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3667">Bunche Road, Nairobi </a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2783">Cabbage </a><br />
<a href="http://darumamuseum.blogspot.com/2008/06/gourd-hyootan.html">Calabash, calabashes, gourd </a><br />
<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2009/10/camel-dromedary.html">Camel, Dromedary, Kamel, Dromedar </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/07/casuarina-tree.html">Casuarina Tree </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2851">Central Park, Children's Traffic Park </a><br />
<a href="http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.com/2007/06/lizard.html">Chameleon </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2825">Chapati, flatbread </a><a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/04/beggar-beggars.html">Chokoraa, chokora - "street boy" or "parking boy" </a><br />
<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/coconuts.html">Coconut, coconuts, coconut milk </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2823">Coffee plant blossoms, coffee blossoms</a><br />
<a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2005/09/insects-mushi-05.html">Crickets, cricket </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/12/marabou-storks.html">Dandora, Municipal Garbage Site </a>Nairobi<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4337">Day Moon </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/04/demolitions.html">Demolitions in Patanisho, Nairobi</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3118">Duck, ducks </a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4854">Elections, general election 2013 </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/02/eucalyptus-tree.html">Eucalyptus tree </a>Fam. Myrtaceae<br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/09/fences-and-hedges.html">Fences and hedges </a><br />
<a href="http://indiasaijikiworlkhaiku.blogspot.jp/2006/10/sunbirds.html">Firefinch </a> fam. Lagonosticta<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-things.html">First things </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/09/flame-tree-erythrina.html">Flame tree (Erythrina fam.) </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/06/flies-in-kenya.html">Flies, Fly, Housefly, Fruitfly </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3169">Fog </a><br />
<a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2009/06/fountain-funsui.html">Fountain (in a park) </a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3154">Garbage, sewers, sewerage </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5301">Gilgil, town in the Rift Valley </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maize-corn.html">Githeri</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3145">Grevillea tree </a><br />
<a href="http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2010/05/guitar-gitarre.html">Guitar </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/08/hells-gate.html">Hell's Gate National Park </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2369">Hornbill</a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maize-corn.html">Irio (mûkimû) </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/03/isukuti-dance.html">Isukuti Dance</a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2011/01/kabaka-of-uganda.html">Jackfruit, fenesi </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/09/jeevanjee-gardens.html">Jeevanjee Gardens </a>and Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2323">Jua kali artisans </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/01/kabaka-of-uganda.html">Kabaka of Uganda </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/09/kajiado-mission.html">Kajiado mission </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigoparkinglot/message/2310">Kale, kales, a cabbage (sukumawiki) </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/511">Kamba People </a>A funeral in Ukambani<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3561">Kamukunji constituency, Nairobi </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/07/kanga.html">Kanga, kangas, wrapping cloth </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3829">Karura forest </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4048">Kasarani Constituency </a> <br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2588">Kenya Railway Museum</a> Kukai August 2010<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2363">Kenyatta National Hospital,Nairobi </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/07/khamsin-wind.html">Khamsin wind </a>Egypt, North Africa<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4694">Khat, miraa (Catha edulis) </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2823">Kiambu County</a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2012/05/kibanda-hut.html">Kibanda hut, kiosk, stall </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/pig-pigs.html">Kibera Slums</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4200">Kigali, Rwanda </a> <br />
<a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5573">Kikoi. kikoy - garment, shawl </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3038">Kiondo handbag </a>(chondo, pl. vyondo)<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/11/kisii-in-nyanza.html">Kisii in Nyanza </a>Narok plains, Ogembo Street<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/kisongo-market-tanzania.html">Kisongo Market</a> Tanzania<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2580">Kitale Town in Western Kenya </a><br />
kitenge - garment<br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4807">Koinange mall and street, Nairobi </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4441">Komarocks play ground and Embakasi</a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3119">Korogocho slum </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5416">kuku choma - grilled chicken </a> <br />
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<a href="http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/06/dead-body-hotoke.html">Lang'ata - Nairobi </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3926">Limuru town in Kiambu West Distarict</a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2275">Longido Hills</a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2894">Lugari Forest </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/01/machakos.html">Machakos town, Masaku</a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/magadi-lake.html">Magadi, Lake Magadi in the Rift Valley </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maize-corn.html">Maize </a>(Swahili : Mahindi, American : Corn, South African : Mealies)<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5044">managu vegetable </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/maasai-cattle.html">Masai, Maasai, Massai ... </a>indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/09/mandazi-doughnuts.html">Mandazi, a kind of doughnuts</a> ndazi (singular)<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/12/marabou-storks.html">Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/marikiti-market.html">Marikiti Farmers' Market </a>Nairobi<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/03/market.html">Market, markets </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/02/matatu-minibus.html">Matatu minibus </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4062">Mathare Youth Sports Association, MYSA </a> Mathare Valley slums<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2010/03/masinga-dam.html">Matuu town </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3662">Mavoko county</a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2012/06/mitumba-mtumba-second-hand-goods.html">Mitumba (singular : mtumba) second-hand goods </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/07/mkokoteni-hand-cart.html">Mkokoteni - hand cart, pushcart </a>pl. mikokoteni<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/02/monkey-monkeys.html">Monkey, monkeys</a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mount-kenya-and-kilimanjaro.html">Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mourning.html">Mourning </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3940">Mtumba (singular) / mitumba (plural) used items </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3422">Mugumo tree </a><br />
<a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5653">mutura - Kenyans Saussage </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2006/01/mud-matope.html">Murang'a town </a> <br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2006/01/mud-matope.html">murram mud roads </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2653">Mzungu, muzungu ... person of European descent</a>... "white person"<br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/02/nairobi-city.html">Nairobi City </a><br />
Haile Selassie Avenue, Soweto Market, Wakulima Market, Thika road, Tom Mboya street, Marikiti market, Kawangare slums, Kibera slum . . .<br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2275">Ngaramtoni</a> at the flank of Mount Meru<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/10/newspaper-vendor.html">Newspaper vendor, newspaper boy </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4535">Nightjar (Fam. Caprimulgus) </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/1033">Night life </a><br />
<a href="hhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4966">Njiru Market </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2793">Njiiru Plains </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5376">Nyama choma - roast meat </a> <br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2706">Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2248">Pawpaw tree(Asimina) </a>paw paw, paw-paw, papaw<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/04/peace-amani.html">Peace (Swahili : Amani) </a><br />
<a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2007/01/pelican.html">Pelican </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/pig-pigs.html">Pig, pigs </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2841">Pine tree, Pinus Patula </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/01/pineapple.html">Pineapple, Ananas comosus</a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/04/power-failure.html">Pokot people </a>West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2737">Pomelo (Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis) </a>Chinese grapefruit<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/posho-mill.html">Posho mill, poshomill </a>-- to grind wheat, maize and other grains<br />
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<a href="http://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/05/radio-day.html">Radio </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/06/rift-valley.html">Rift Valley </a><br />
<a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/date-palm.html">Royal Palm Tree </a>Roystonea regia<br />
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<a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2009/03/scorpion-sasori.html">Scorpion </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3069">Sewer, sewage in Soweto </a><br />
shuka - blanket<br />
shamba - food garden<br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3590">Sinai slum fire, September 2011 </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2737">Sisal (Agave sisalana) </a><br />
..... <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3104">Sisal and makongeni paths </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2498">Slasher to cut grass </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3171">Smoke and smog </a><br />
<a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2006/07/snake-hebi.html">Snake, Snakes </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/posho-mill.html">Sorghum (mtama) and milled porridge (uji) </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2733">Sowbug, a brown snail </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/03/sufuria-cooking-pot.html">Sufuria .. cooking pot or saucepan</a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/08/tea-in-kenya.html">Tea (Swahili : chai)</a><br />
-- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5022">thermos container </a> <br />
<a href="http://worldkigo2005.blogspot.com/2005/11/fish-as-kigo.html">Tilapia fish</a><br />
<a href="http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/12/toilet-outhouse.html">Toilet, outhouse </a><br />
<a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2007/09/eggplant-nasu.html">Tomato, tomatoes </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5403">Trans-Mara region </a> <br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/posho-mill.html">Ugali and Uji, maize porridge </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3134">Ukwala, Muthurwa, Luthuli Avenue </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/12/umbrella-tree.html">Umbrella tree / Schefflera actinophylla </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5109">Upland rice </a> <br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3208">Voi, Sagala hill </a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2481">Warthog </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/07/weaver-bird.html">Weaver birds (Ploceidae family) </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/823">Webuye Town </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kenyasaijiki/conversations/messages/5199">Westgate Attack, Mall Attack, September 2013 </a> <br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/1580">Wildebeest<br />
migration</a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/07/posho-mill.html">Wimbi, bulo ... Millet </a><br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/06/wood.html">Wood, firewood </a><br />
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5000">World Environment Day (5 June) </a> <br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/11/kisii-in-nyanza.html">Zebra</a><br />
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<strong>Haibun . Haiku in Combination</strong><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/11/poetic-haibun.html">Construction and Development </a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/2962">. Kiswahili Haiku </a><br />
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<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/08/trinidad-and-tobago.html">WKD: Trinidad and Tobago Saijiki </a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">.. .. .. .. .. National Holidays in Kenya</span><br />
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<strong>l Jan</strong> -- <strong>New Year's Day</strong> -- International New Year's Day Holiday<br />
> -- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-year-shin-nen.html">WKD ... : New Year (shin-nen)</a><br />
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Varies -- <strong>Good Friday</strong> -- Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ<br />
> -- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/05/easter.html">WKD ... : Easter</a><br />
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Varies -- <strong>Easter Monday</strong> -- Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ<br />
> -- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/05/easter.html">WKD ... : Easter</a><br />
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<strong>1 May</strong> -- <strong>Labour Day</strong> -- International Day of the Worker<br />
> -- <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigoparkinglot/message/5">see also : Labour Day, USA</a><br />
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<strong>Mashujaa Day</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">10 Oct -- Moi Day</span></strong> -- Established on the 10th day of the 10th month 10 years after the inauguration of President Daniel arap Moi as the second President of Kenya.<br />
October 2010:<br />
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with Hero's (Mashujaa) Day in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .<br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">20 Oct -- Kenyatta Day</span></strong> -- This is to commemorate the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and the declaration of the State of Emergency on 20 October 1952.<br />
October 2010:<br />
The new constitution scrapped Moi Day and replaced Kenyatta day with <strong>Hero's (Mashujaa) Day </strong>in efforts to celebrate the men and women who fought for Kenya's freedom .<br />
<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/03/jomo-kenyatta.html">Jomo Kenyatta </a><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">12 Dec -- Uhuru or Jamhuri Day</span></strong> -- This is to commemorate the day on which Kenya achieved its Independence, on 12 December 1963.<br />
> -- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/10/jamhuri-day.html">Jamhuri Day</a><br />
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<strong>25 Dec -- Christmas Day</strong> -- Christian holiday celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ.<br />
> -- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/02/bahati-0601.html">Bahati Haiku Club : Christmas</a><br />
> -- <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/christmas.html">WKD ... : Christmas</a><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">26 Dec -- Boxing Day </span></strong>-- celebrating St Stephen's Day and the second<br />
day of the Christmas season.<br />
> -- <a href="http://europasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/07/stephens-day.html">WKD ... St Stephen's Day </a><br />
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<strong>Varies -- <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/06/ramadan-ends-idd-ul-fitr.html">Idd ul Fitr</a> </strong><br />
The Muslim festival of Idd-ul-Fitr is also a public holiday and takes place on the sighting of the new moon at the <strong>end of Ramadhan</strong>. The exact date varies according to the position of the New Moon.<br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">.. .. .. .. .. .. Annual events in Kenya</span></strong><br />
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Apart from big celebrations that are held on Madaraka, Kenyatta and Independence Days, Nairobi is also the venue for a number of large international and national sports matches. Nairobi further enhances its cosmopolitan image by hosting a number of annual shows and<br />
festivals.<br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">The Kenya Schools Music Festival</span></strong> is held in Nairobi in May/June and<br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">The Agricultural Society of Kenya (A.S.K.) Show</span></strong> takes place at Jamhuri Park at the end of September or beginning of October. See <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/02/nairobi-int-trade-fair.html">Nairobi International Trade Fair </a><br />
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The long established and international <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Safari Rally</span></strong> begins and ends in Nairobi - drawing ever larger crowds.<br />
<span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.kenyaweb.com/</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Introduction to the</span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/kenya-haiku-clubs.html">Haiku Clubs of Nairobi </a><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>More LINKs in the Kenya Saijiki</strong><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/getting-to-know-kenya.html">Getting to Know Kenya</a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2005/12/literature-of-kenya.html">Poetry and Literature of Kenya</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/6">Music of Kenya, by Douglas Paterson</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/10">Missionaries in Kenya</a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/wildlife-in-kenya.html">Wildlife in Kenya</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5">Plants and Animals of Kenya, LIST by Allen & Nancy Chartier</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3">Kakamega Forest Birds</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4">Nature Kenya Organization</a><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Introducing Haiku from Africa<br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/12">African Haiku by Fancy</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/9">African Haiku by Stephen Davies</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/13">African Haiku with Ted Goossen</a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Haiku Africa: Haikus and Photographs</span></strong><br />
by Joel H. Goldstein (Author)<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">Bull Elephant walks</span><br />
<span style="font-size:130%;">Isolated on the road</span><br />
<span style="font-size:130%;">Alone with his thoughts</span><br />
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As one of the assignments for this course, students were asked to do a piece of creative writing using the characteristics (whether formal or not) of one of the texts that we discussed during the semester.<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">I looked around me<br />
In the middle of the street<br />
Suddenly I am lost.</span><br />
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by Jacob Nthoiwa<br />
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<a href="http://www.thuto.org/english-old/courses/eng434/botshaiku.htm">source : Botswana Haiku </a><br />
<span style="font-size:85%;">University of Botswana English Department, 2003</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Kenya</strong></span> </span><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/">Haiku from Kenya, Kenya Saijiki ケニア歳時記 </a><br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/kenya-haiku-clubs.html">The Haiku Clubs of Nairobi</a><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>South Africa<br />
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There are Jewish, Muslim and Hindu religious festivals celebrated here, although the Christian ones are the only that rate a national holiday right now.<br />
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Some of our national holidays are interesting in terms of kigo.<br />
For instance, <strong>Heritage Day</strong> is celebrated on 24 September in the spring so there is a contrast between the forward-looking season and the backwards-looking celebration.<br />
Another like <strong>Youth Day</strong> is 16 June, almost mid-winter and very appropriate perhaps to the tragedy of that day in 1976.<br />
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And then there is our <strong>fynbos ("feiner Busch") </strong>, a unique and indigenous family of plants. So diverse that I think some or other species of it are in flower at any one time of the year. So fynbos is something really South African but not really something that one can associate with a season as such.<br />
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Moira Richards, South Africa<br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigolibrary/message/43">Fynbos , South African Plant</a> in our library<br />
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Steve Shapiro</span><br />
His first collection of haiku, <span style="font-style:italic;">In a borrowed tent</span> (Snailpress) won the 1996 Ingrid Jonker Prize for English language poetry.<br />
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2007, a new book of poems, <span style="font-style:italic;">of little consequence</span><br />
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. . . from <span style="font-style:italic;">of little consequence</span>:<br />
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From the “Spring” section:<br />
<span style="font-size:130%;"><br />
The spring breeze<br />
- I lost a piece of paper<br />
with a poem on it</span><br />
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From the “Winter” section:<br />
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Collecting mushrooms<br />
my knife blade reflecting mist<br />
swirling through the pines </span><br />
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<a href="http://carapace.book.co.za/blog/2007/07/05/new-haiku-from-steve-shapiro/">source : carapace.book.co.za, 2007 </a> <br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Tingatinga painting style - Tanzania </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">Tingatinga -<br />
a world of colors<br />
exploding</span><br />
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Gabi Greve, October 2009<br />
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Once there was a man called <strong>Edward S. Tingatinga</strong>. He was born in the Namochelia village in Tunduru district in the South Tanzania.<br />
During the 1960s he established an art form that became associated with Tanzania. Today, "Tingatinga" is the Tanzanian term for this form of art, known most intimately in Tanzania, Kenya, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Japan, Switzerland etc.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingatinga"><span style="font-size:85%;">© More in the WIKIPEDIA !</span></a><br />
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<strong>The peoples of Kenya<br />
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Kenya is a huge country, comparable with the whole of Europe, rather than any individual country within the continent. The population of 29 million people (1999 census) live in hugely different circumstances, depending on their location -- from desert to beach, from the fertile plateau to sodium lakes, from well watered hills to arid bush, from uninhabited areas to urban conglomerations. Some areas are densely populated, while others know only semi-nomadic seasonal pastoralists.<br />
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<strong>Within Kenya live 32 nations,</strong> each with its own language, as well as numerous others who speak dialects of these 32. The national language, which only a small minority speak as their mother tongue, is Swahili (in Swahili : Kiswahili). By means of this second language, all people of Kenya can communicate, not only with each other, but with the people of the neighbouring countries.<br />
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To compare with Europe again -- if all Europeans learnt Esperanto as their second language and used it to communicate with each other, rather than learning dozens of each other's languages, the same efficient effect could be achieved. English in Kenya is the third language, used for secondary and tertiary education throughout the country, as well as for primary education in the melting pot of Nairobi. Each child therefore prepares for adult life through education in her or his third language from secondary school at the latest. There must be few other countries who do this! Most Kenyans therefore, who have attended school beyond the age of 14, are trilingual -- though not of course equally competent in each of these languages.<br />
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In Kenya have met 3 great families of nations, <strong>the Bantu, the Nilotic and the Cushitic</strong> -- a rich mix which has not occurred in any other country. If we compare with Europe, this is populated above all by Indo-Europeans, but there are also Finno-Ugric peoples (the Finns, Estonians and Hungarians) and Basques (apparently related to no other people on earth). In other words, English and Hindi are more similar than Kikuyu and Luo (to mention the two largest nations within Kenya).<br />
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The political system is, of course, the same for all. Legally, some differences exist, as each nation may have its own law in matters such as matrimony and inheritance.<br />
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Culture and attitudes differ vastly between these nations -- and of course between individuals!<br />
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Kenyans were not in the past happy emigrants -- preferring their own country to those of others. More recently, there has been a change, with a search for the crock of gold... that same crock which eluded most of the Irish emigrants of the past...<br />
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Isabelle Prondzynski<br />
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<strong>............................ Further reading :</strong><br />
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1999 census summary (one page of interesting highlights) :<br />
<span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.cbs.go.ke/census1999.html<br />
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General introduction to the peoples of Kenya :<br />
<span style="font-size:78%;">http://kenya.com/people.html<br />
http://www.kenyalogy.com/eng/info/pobla.html</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">History of Kenya</span></strong><br />
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In 1911, the german enthomologist prof. Kattwinkel fell down a ravine while he was pursuing an unusual butterfly. The place was Olduvai Gorge, in Serengeti. The fall was hard, but the scientist somehow managed to save his life. Then he raised his eyes, and only a scientist would have appreciated that the rocky wall was an extraordinary fossil bed... And this changed the conception man had of his own origin.<br />
To tell the history of Kenya, we must go right to the start, to the dawn of mankind.<br />
... kenyalogy.com<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&source=hp&q=kenya+information&lr=&aq=f&oq=">More reference about KENYA </a> <br />
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<strong>Great Photo Collection of Kenya</strong><br />
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Group of Samburu dancers performing traditional tribal jumping dance.<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Kenya -- Folklore<br />
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Kenya's many ethnic groups have a well developed and sophisticated folklore which embodies their history, traditions, mores, world-view and wisdom. Their legends recount the movement of people to and from the rift valley, into the highlands, the grasslands and the lake regions. Famous historical figures such as the Kikuyu Gikuyu and Mumbi or the Luo culture hero Liongo are represented in myths and legends. Myths include accounts of how cattle were given to a certain people by God. The Maasai have this legend, so when they went on cattle raids they were getting back what was rightfully theirs. The Kikuyu also have a similar story.<br />
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Folk tales try to answer etymological questions, such as why the hyena has a limp and the origin of death. In many Kenyan cultures the message that men would not die was given to a chameleon, but he was so slow that a bird got to man before him and gave them the message that men would die. Folk tales also recount the adventures of tricksters. In Kenya, tricksters are usually the hare or the tortoise. The ogre is another popular, if evil, character in many Kenyan folk tales. The ogre devours whole communities but is eventually vanquished by the actions of a brother and sister. The brother then cuts the toe of the ogre and all the people it ate come out.<br />
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Each ethnic group has a large store of riddles, proverbs and sayings, which are still an important aspect of daily speech. Riddles were usually exchanged in the evening before a storytelling session. Riddling sessions are usually competitions between two young people who fictionally bet villages, or cattle, or other items of economic life on the outcome. Many cultures have a prohibition on telling riddles during daylight hours. The Kikuyu had a very elaborate sung riddle game, a duet called the enigma poem or gicandia set text poem of riddles. It is sung in a duet and the players are in a competition. The duet is strikingly different than the normal singing of the Kikuyu performed by a soloist and a chorus. The poem is learned by heart. A decorated gourd rattle accompanies the singing One gicandi may consists of 127 stanzas.<br />
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Proverbs are social phenomenon and as such they can be defined as a message coded by tradition and transmitted in order to evaluate and/or effect human behavior. Proverbs reveal key elements of a culture such as the position and influence of women, morality, what is considered appropriate behavior, and the importance of children. For example the Luo have these proverbs:<br />
(1) The eye you have treated will look at you contemptuously.<br />
(2) A cowardly hyena lives for many years.<br />
(3) The swimmer who races alone, praises the winner.<br />
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Some Kikuyu examples includes:<br />
(1) Women and the sky cannot be understood.<br />
(2) The man may be the head of the home, but the woman is the heart.<br />
(3) Frowning frogs cannot stop the cows drinking from the pool.<br />
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There are also several proverbs in Swahili and English that have become part of Kenyans' daily life. For example: Haraka Haraka haina baraka (hurry hurry has not blessing) and also, When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.<br />
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The Swahili people on Kenya's coast have had a rich oral tradition that has been influenced by Islam. Stories of genies are told side by side with stories of hare and hyena. There is also a very rich tradition of popular poetry that has been part of Swahili cultural life for over four centuries.<br />
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Kenyan radio and television shows use folklore as part of their daily programming. Oral literature is part of the secondary and university syllabus. Part of the requirement in these classes is for students to collect folklore from their parents and grandparents. Kenyans believe that folklore is an important part of their heritage and culture and are taking steps to preserve and encourage folklore and education. While global culture in the shape of movies, music and literature is replacing folklore, Kenyans are actively involved in its maintenance.<br />
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<strong>For Further Reading:</strong><br />
African Studies Center<br />
<a href="http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kfolklore.htm">© Kenya -- Folklore </a><br />
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<b>Biovision </b>- plants, humans, animals, environment<br />
<a href="http://www.infonet-biovision.org/default/search/-1/_?action=search&keyword=Kenya">source : infonet-biovision.org</a> <br />
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<strong>Kenya Wildlife Service</strong><br />
Welcome to Kenya and experience the way God intended nature to be: sun-baked savannahs, snow-capped mountains, glistening coral reefs, astounding habitats and outstanding people.<br />
<a href="http://www.kws.org/">http://www.kws.org/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kws.org/album.html">Some of our Photos</a><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Lake Nakuru National Park</strong><br />
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Nakuru means "Dust or Dusty Place" in Maasai language. Lake Nakuru National Park, close to Nakuru town, was established in 1961. It started off small, only encompassing the famous lake and the surrounding mountainous vicinity. Now it has been extended to include a large part of the savannahs.<br />
<span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.africanmeccasafaris.com/kenya/safaris/parks/lakenakuru.asp<br />
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<span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.go2africa.com/kenya/rift-valley/lake-nakuru-national-park/</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">................ </span>Ben Guaraldi : Birds in Flight<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">The birds in their flight--<br />
a slow undulating line<br />
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<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">written in Nakuru Park, Kenya<br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.bluesock.org/~ben/cgi-bin/haiku.pl/2005/11/06<br />
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<strong>Lake Nakuru</strong><br />
is a very shallow strongly alkaline lake 62 km2 in extent. It is set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland next to Nakuru town. The landscape includes areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest on the eastern perimeter.<br />
<span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.kws.org/nakuru.html<br />
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<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Wildlife in Kenya, esp. animals and trees</span> </strong><br />
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<strong>WAKULUZU: FRIENDS OF THE COLOBUS TRUST<br />
</strong><a href="http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=WAKULUZU%3A+FRIENDS+OF+THE+COLOBUS+TRUST&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=">. . . www.colobustrust.</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/5">Plants and Animals of Kenya, LIST by Allen & Nancy Chartier</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3">Kakamega Forest Birds</a><br />
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<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4">Nature Kenya Organization</a><br />
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<span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Discussing kigo and haiku topics from Kenya</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:85%;">by Isabelle Prondzynski, September 2007</span><br />
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In an equatorial country, such as Kenya, seasons work very differently from those in temperate zones, such as Japan and Europe.<br />
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In August 2007, the two most active Haiku Clubs of Kenya, the Bamboochas of Bahati Community Centre Secondary School and the Peacocks of St Mathew Secondary School, invited me to discuss with them the importance of kigo and haiku topics for Kenya haijin.<br />
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What follows here are the joint reflections of the clubs, their patrons and myself, which were later discussed with the Worldkigo Database Group in September 2007.<br />
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<em>The Peacocks’ classroom</em><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">What feeling attaches to the Kenyan seasons?</span></strong><br />
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We started by reviewing the European / Japanese seasons, as Kenyans are not necessarily familiar with the activities and feelings attached to each of these.<br />
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What happens ...<br />
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... in the weather (thaw -- heat -- warmth -- cold),<br />
... in nature (germination -- growth -- harvest -- rest),<br />
... in activities (planting -- cultivating -- harvesting -- resting),<br />
... in the parallel to human lives (childhood and youth -- maturity -- old age -- death).<br />
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The next thing was to apply this thinking and feeling to the Kenyan seasons. Kenyans are much less used to thinking of their year as being broken down into seasons, than people living in temperate zones are. For the sake of simplification, we dispensed with the hot / cold aspect and concentrated first of all on the more important rainy / dry season distinction -- there are two of each as the year goes on.<br />
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As we discussed, we found that the associated words which came to us, could be organised along certain categories, some of which are :<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">-- activities<br />
-- food<br />
-- beauty<br />
-- home life / leisure<br />
-- ilnesses<br />
-- suffering / tragedy</span><br />
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Unlike Europe and Japan, where the year revolves in a cycle, with the whole of nature participating in a crescendo and diminuendo, followed by another crescendo, in Kenya, each season is more balanced, and each has its "good" and "bad" sides. Each season brings its own growth, its own food, its own suffering and despair.<br />
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The students, pondering what the rainy / dry seasons meant to them, answered "<strong>hope</strong>" (for the rainy seasons) and "<strong>hopelessness</strong>" (for the dry seasons).<br />
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Compared with human life, they responded that the rains corresponded to "<strong>childhood and youth</strong>", and the dry seasons to all the other ages -- "<strong>maturity, old age and death</strong>".<br />
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They then reflected whether this held for <strong>urban</strong> areas as well as <strong>rural</strong>. They agreed that the dry seasons were in many respects easier for an urban person than the rainy seasons -- but even urban people depend on the food grown in the rural areas, and if this does not grow in sufficient quantity or at the right time, prices rise and the urban population suffers hunger as much as the rural population does. So, the parallels shift only slightly in the urban setting as compared with the rural one.<br />
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<em>The Bamboochas’ notes on the Rainy Seasons</em><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Kenya kigo and haiku topics</span></strong><br />
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The next item on our agenda was to distinguish between kigo and haiku topics.<br />
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We ran through a list of words, including these ...<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">... dust (kigo)<br />
... oranges (kigo)<br />
... Hell's Gate (topic)<br />
... Kenyatta Day (kigo)<br />
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which were, at least at first sight, easy.<br />
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But others, such as ...<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">... fly<br />
... thorn tree<br />
... weaver bird</span><br />
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were more complicated, as those of us who were keen observers, had noticed that different aspects of these subjects were noticeable at different times of year.<br />
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Thus, the fly, which is there all year round, becomes more of a nuisance in the dry season. The thorn tree, which is beautiful and has leaves all year round, flowers in the cool dry season. The weaver bird, which is observed all year round, rears its young at a specific time of year (to be observed).<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">... goatmeat</span><br />
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is a kigo for Christians at Christmas, being most Kenyans' preferred meat for the big festivals. But we also realised that this is popular for family celebrations (the homecoming of a much loved child studying or working far away, the meeting of two families whose children are about to get married, etc.). And we realised that Kenyan Muslims, who share the same preference for goatmeat as a special festive food, like to eat this for Idd Ul Fittr and other great Muslim festivals.<br />
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So, our first conclusion was :<br />
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The better we observe, the more kigo we may be able to find for one and the same item.<br />
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<strong>Examples :</strong><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">... weaver birds building nests, weaver birds rearing their young<br />
... avocado trees flowering, avocado fruit ripe to eat<br />
... cassia trees leafless, cassia blossom<br />
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We then discussed the need to use a kigo if possible in every haiku.<br />
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This, we had realised, seems to be more difficult in Kenya than in temperate places like Europe and Japan.<br />
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The Kenyan seasons have several disadvantages -- from a haijin's point of view!<br />
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(a) they have long names<br />
(b) their names are not in common use<br />
(c) many kigo are identical for the two rainy seasons / the two dry seasons<br />
(d) the weather is not all that different all year round<br />
(e) there is no general and simultaneous crescendo and diminuendo of nature in Kenya<br />
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Just a few comments here :<br />
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(a) In a temperate haiku, it is easy to use "spring breeze", "summer sunset", "autumn loneliness" or "winter chill", for instance, to create an immediate feeling for the season and its atmosphere. It is not so easy for a haijin to say "breeze of the cool dry season" or "wind of the long rains".<br />
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(b) Even if it could be done, the feeling would not be as tangible as that of the temperate haiku. People are not as used to thinking in terms of the current season in order to express themselves.<br />
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(c) This is probably self evident. Examples are : mud, dust, puddle, downpour, flying termites, bullfrogs, etc. Each of these kigo occur in two seasons each year.<br />
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(d) We have brilliant sunshine during the rainy seasons, haijin may want to include this is a haiku (rainfall is mostly in the afternoon and evening). The quality of the sunshine during the rains does not differ significantly from that during the dry seasons. Equally, we have showers during the dry seasons, and sometimes even heavy rain. Less frequently, of course, but normal all the same.<br />
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(e) In the short term, one could say that each rainy season plus the following dry season is a unit, so that there are two of these units per year. There is planting and growth, followed by harvest and preparation in each of these units.<br />
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In the longer term, there are fruit (particularly those which grow on trees) which mature only once per year -- but taking all such fruit together, they mature throughout the year at different times.<br />
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Taking the whole country (which straddles the Equator) as a unit, we find that there is always a part of the country in which the same plant has a different cycle. Thus, Nairobi is never short of fresh avocadoes, mangoes, pawpaws and many other fruit, all year round, because when one part of the country has finished its harvest, another part of the country will bring in a new one.<br />
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In August, when the cassia trees of Nairobi are leafless and resting with their ripe seeds (produced by the flowers of January to April), the cassia trees of Kisumu are flowering beautifully.<br />
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And so, we arrived at a second conclusion :<br />
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In Kenya, we may not be able to advise haijin that every haiku should have a kigo.<br />
Kenyan kigo are a lot more difficult than temperate kigo.<br />
We may need to allow the use of haiku topics instead of kigo.<br />
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<em>Working group of Bamboochas</em><br />
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<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">What are suitable haiku topics for Kenya?</span></strong><br />
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As seen here, Kenyan seasons differ from each other to a lesser extent than temperate seasons do. Yet, we know that seasons help to structure human lives, as humans live within the rhythms of nature.<br />
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So, what, together with the seasons, structures human lives in an equatorial country like Kenya? Could these be the best haiku topics to cultivate for the haijin?<br />
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The most important are the events of <strong>the human life cycle</strong> :<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">... births<br />
... circumcisions and other rites of passage to adulthood<br />
... engagements<br />
... dowry ceremonies<br />
... weddings<br />
... visits of relatives<br />
... visits of in-laws<br />
... war and peace<br />
... deaths<br />
... funerals<br />
... memorials<br />
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Many of these are associated with detailed ceremonial, often taking place in several stages.<br />
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In Kenya Saijiki, we have already collected some material on <strong>circumcision</strong>, on <strong>mourning</strong>, on <strong>peace</strong>. These could be the start of a Kenya specific collection of haiku topics.<br />
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We have also started on haiku topics associated with geography, the beauty of the different parts of the country.<br />
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The <strong>wild animals</strong> of Kenya, so numerous and beautiful, can give rise to many kigo, once we have observed them sufficiently. Most of them do not live in urban areas -- so this observation will take some time. But the animals will also be topics. A zebra is a being of beauty all year round -- no haijin will ever regard a Kenya zebra or another wild animal as something ordinary, and it will always be a pleasure to write about them.<br />
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<em>Concentrated Peacocks</em><br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-size: large;"><b>Graduation Day Haibun</b></span><br />
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By Caleb Mutua<br />
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On 6 December 2013, I was (as the saying goes) given the power to read. I miraculously graduated from the most prestigious public university in Kenya, the University of Nairobi (UoN), with Second Class Honours (Upper Division). Interestingly, it was the 50th graduation ceremony of the university, my country was preparing to turn 50 years in a week’s time and I had just turned 25 two weeks earlier.<br />
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This day will remain fresh in my mind for years to come. Every graduand was given only two invitation cards and so I had brought my mother, my twin brother and my small nieces to be with me.<br />
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Mom and the kids had never been to the university and my brother James had been there once while I was in second year. I wanted everything to be perfect. I had hired a taxi to pick us up from home and take us to the campus. The taxi would also take us to a Pizza Inn in Nairobi’s Central Business District and later take us back home. My friend, a professional photographer, would take our photos with her new D90 Nikon Camera. Everything looked perfect!<br />
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On the morning of the graduation, I woke up very early. The taxi came on time but Mom took longer than planned to prepare the kids. After waiting impatiently for 20 minutes, we left home at 6:45 am. The taxi driver knew his way around town. He ingeniously avoided the morning traffic and we arrived well on time at 8:12 am.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">graduation day —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">my niece can’t find</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">her hair flower</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Jogoo Road —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a graduand smiles at me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in the traffic</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">muddy graduation square —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">her stilettoes leave a trail</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of deep holes</span><br />
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The graduation ceremony kicked off at 8:30 am. I listened to the long speeches absent-mindedly, still not believing that we had finally made it. That I had made it. To most of the graduands, they saw it coming. They had gone to good schools and were sure they would end up at UoN.<br />
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But to some of us, we had not. I had not. I had never thought I would graduate from UoN, or any other university for that matter. As my friends complained about the mud and the hot sun, I sat there in disbelief, wearing a stupid smile. I couldn’t believe my name was about to be called.<br />
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Don’t misunderstand me. I’ve always thought of myself as an above average person. In fact, my family and friends have on many occasions said I am bright and clever! But I still didn't believe I was about to graduate with a degree in Journalism and Media Studies.<br />
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Come to think of it, I never went to good schools. By the time I was sitting for my Kenya Certificate for Primary Education (KCPE), I could count a total of 18 schools I had attended. Only two of them were State schools. The rest were private schools in Nairobi’s various slums whose classes were partitioned with cartons. Grammar teachers spoke broken English. I remembered with nostalgia how I rolled with the punches; the many times I was made to wear a stinking bone after being caught speaking Swahili; how I hardly learnd anything in the afternoon classes because most of the times I was too hungry to think.<br />
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In November 2003, I finally sat for my KCPE exams. I passed with flying colours. I had qualified to go to a Provincial school for my secondary education, but my family could not afford to pay my fee. My secondary school was no different from my primary school, except that the classrooms were made with concrete walls and we did not have to carry clean water from home for the teachers to cook with.<br />
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One day in mid-2005, we had visitors in our school. They told us about some old Japanese guy called Master Basho and how he lived a simple life writing some poems called haiku. They also showed us how to write haiku and promised us free computer lessons. I also remember them mentioning something like the best haiku writers would some day go to Japan. <br />
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In the beginning, writing haiku was an uphill task. I remember flipping through the Oxford English dictionary just to find the right words to use in my poem. I hated it when my poem never got any comment, even with all the vocabulary, but I was loving the challenge. I always loved languages and my compositions were some of the best in the whole school. <br />
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Haiku remained a closed book to most of us for a while but we all had a fair crack of the whip. I became the first chairman of the St. Mathew Haiku Club. We called ourselves Peacocks. At first, we wrote haiku as a routine thing; we were worried that if we stopped writing, the “haiku sponsors” would terminate our computer classes.<br />
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Slowly, we started loving the exercise. I was moved by the power of the simple poem and how I could tell a story with 17 syllables. Comments on my work and the many words of encouragement from the Kenya Saijiki members were very helpful. I also came across the Haiku Handbook by W.F Owen, which I read from cover to cover several times. I was into haiku writing hook, line, and sinker.<br />
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Then I found a friend who would later change my life forever.<br />
I like to think of her as my guardian angel. In many ways, she reminds me of Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan, a beloved Irish priest who led a simple life, wrote about the sea and the beating surf and wanted to see everyone happy. He wished he could tell everyone, “Here, Rest and Forget!”<br />
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I always admired journalists and even though I would on many occasions use ‘she’ instead of ‘he’, even after my Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education (KCSE), my friend believed in me. In many ways she told me: “Here, Rest and Forget . . .”<br />
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A shabby loudspeaker erected on my left announced: “School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The following graduands satisfied the Board of Examination . . .” I could almost hear my heart beat now. It was my moment of truth.<br />
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When my name was called, I almost said "Present!". It was a defining moment of my life. I was a graduate. I think I heard my mother scream with joy as my nieces cheered in excitement even though they were seated over 30 metres away.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">long speeches —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">graduands compare </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">their caps</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">graduation day --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a parent wipes his muddy shoes </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with the programme</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">graduation day —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a Maasai family stands out</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from the crowd</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">a graduand helps </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">her grandma up the stairs —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mobile toilets</span><br />
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In the end, over 9,000 graduands were conferred with various degrees, diplomas and certificates.<br />
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After the ceremony, I was reunited with my family. Mom had bought me a graduation card and some shiny decorations that she joyously placed on my neck. I didn't like them. My nieces held my hands firmly as we walked towards the main campus buildings on the other side of Uhuru Highway. My brother wore my graduation cap.<br />
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Graduands and their families took photos in and outside various campus buildings. Business was booming for sweet peddlers, hawkers selling graduation cards, picture frames, decorations and foodstuffs. I had never seen so many photographers all trying to outdo each other with ‘instant photo’ tags . . .<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">campus fountain —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">graduands and their families</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">pose in turns</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">graduation day —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">two photographers show us </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">their portraits</span><br />
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We took professional pictures in a photography studio in Muindi Mbingu Street and proceeded to Galito’s for a pizza. <br />
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At around 3:30 pm, I called our driver to take us to Roasters, a bar and restaurant along Thika Road. I wanted my brother and me to grab a beer, Mom to have wine and the kids to have sodas as they played on the bouncing castles and swings on the restaurant’s compound. <br />
There, we found more graduands -- these ones from Mount Kenya University in Thika -- and their families enjoying themselves. I had no idea the Thika university had a graduation ceremony that same day. We managed to secure a table big enough for us and the driver. The goat meat, however, took longer than the waiter had promised.<br />
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Mom and the kids had the best time. I even had my nieces’ faces painted Spider Man and smiley faces. We forgot about the problems we had left at home that morning and had fun. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">my mother hugs me </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as we wait for the goat meat —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">graduation day</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">my twin brother cuts </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">smaller pieces for my niece —</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">goat meat</span><br />
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We left for home at around 6pm.<br />
<b>IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.</b><br />
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Caleb Mutua<br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-size: medium;"><b>Kukai May 2013 </b></span><br />
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14th Kukai of Kenya Saijiki -- Kenya National Archives on 18 May 2013 <br />
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Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) <br />
is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel.<br />
The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965. It holds 40,000 volumes. It was established by an Act of the Parliament of Kenya in 1965 and was placed under the office of the Vice President and the Minister of Home Affairs. It is currently under the office of the Vice-President and Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture.<br />
The Kenya National Archives building also houses the Murumbi Gallery which contains African artifacts that were collected in the 19th century. <br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_National_Archives"><span style="font-size:85%;">© More in the WIKIPEDIA !</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">a student</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">touches the mask again --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">National Archives</span><br />
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~ Susan Wanjiku (Bamboocha, 3)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">more dust falls</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from the window pane --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">National Archives</span><br />
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~ Jescah Auma (Peacock, 4A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kenya Archives --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bulbs on the ceiling</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">multiply my shadow</span><br />
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~ Otakwa Livingstones (Peacock, 4B)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">midday sun --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a chokora picks lice from</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">his shaggy hair</span><br />
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~ Diana Dola (Peacock, 3A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">scorching sun --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the boda boda men rest</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">under a tree</span><br />
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~ Dorothy Syombua (Peacock, 1A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">National Archives --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">historical pictures posted</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on the walls</span><br />
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~ Winfridah Malesi (Peacock, 4A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kenya Archives --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Murumbi's artefacts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">surprise the haijin</span><br />
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~ Emmanuel Mutati (Bamboocha, 4)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">roadside music --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the haijin enjoy the beats</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">through the window</span><br />
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~ Akaliche Rose (Peacock, 3A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">statue --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the mother breastfeeds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">her baby</span><br />
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~ Margaret Ndinda (Peacock, 4A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">a black pigeon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">lands on the dusty mabati roof --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ginkoo walk</span><br />
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~ Teresia Wanjiku (Peacock, 2A)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">matatu touts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">compete for passengers --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nairobi city</span><br />
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~ Ahomo Felix (Peacock, 2A)<br />
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12.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">in his akala shoes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the European man spits --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Kenya Archives</span><br />
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~ John Maina (Peacock, 4A)<br />
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13.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">crowded haijin --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mixed laughter rings</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">twice in my ears</span><br />
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~ Maurine Nafula (Peacock)<br />
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14.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">slippery floor --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">she misses a step</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">touching an artefact</span><br />
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~ Beatrice Syombua (Peacock, 3B)<br />
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15.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">heavy traffic --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a boda boda strives</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to cross</span><br />
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~ Mercy Amunze (Peacock)<br />
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16.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kenyan Archives --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">students bend on an</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">old bench</span><br />
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~ Derric Ambale (Peacock, 3B)<br />
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17.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ginkoo walk --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">two black pigeons play on the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">dusty mabati roof</span><br />
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~ Jecintah Wafula (Peacock, 2A)<br />
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18.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">scorching sun --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">small boy dancing while</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">spectators watch</span><br />
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~ Susan Njeri (Bamboocha, 3)<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=829&bih=816&q=Tom+Mboya+statue&oq=Tom+Mboya+statue&gs_l=img.12..0j0i24.469.469.0.1547.1.1.0.0.0.0.78.78.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.14.img.FYLzL6FBWKQ" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTxkk6wp-z1__W2PHRT7lXuUgC1k0eCVoYFnsvCukpBAkIo8A1BrirJrBsASVlVykw-xG5P4ZytmiDdgEWgeKXeNzvwCmE7Lw6bQjt48RrcIYovOBNRstcQXFVtarYHsvZYAC0w/s320/kenya+mboya.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">at KNA window --<br />
the Tom Mboya statue<br />
waves at me </span><br />
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Patrick Wafula<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">National Archives-<br />
I admire a golden<br />
wrist watch<br />
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a sweet scent<br />
from yellow banana peels-<br />
Muthurwa stalls </span><br />
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Andrew Otinga<br />
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<a href="http://nairobidigest.co.ke/?p=1280">source : Caleb Mutua - October 28, 2012 </a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Africa’s best haiku writers meet in Nairobi</span></b><br />
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The best group of haiku writers in the whole of Africa met in Nairobi yesterday to exchange ideas and participate in a haiku walk competition.<br />
The Kenya Saijiki is part of a World Kigo Database (WKD) that brings together haiku writers from various parts of the world through the internet.<br />
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According to WKD owner Dr Gabi Greve of Daruma Museum, Japan, the database of seasonal words (worldwide saijiki) gives poets an opportunity to deepen their understanding of season words in haiku and to appreciate the climate, life and culture of many different parts of the world.<br />
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Haiku, a very short form of Japanese poetry, first started in Japan centuries ago and later spread to Europe and further afield.<br />
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African countries including South Africa, Burkina Faso and Kenya have in the recent past starting to appreciate this unique genre of poetry, with Kenya Saijiki members leading the way.<br />
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“This is an educational site for reference purposes of haiku poets worldwide,” says Dr Greve, who also advises Kenya Saijiki on haiku issues.<br />
Since its inception in 2005, Kenya Saijiki members joined the wider haiku community in the WKD and have been collecting season words, known as kigo in Japanese, for Kenya and writing haiku poems.<br />
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The poems are then shared among all members and with the whole world through the internet for comments and discussion on the Kenya Saijiki web pages, starting at http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/ with a long index.<br />
“This was the 13th kukai (meeting) of Kenya Saijiki. The atmosphere was excellent, and all involved participated with full energy and in great spirits,” says the group’s Moderator <b>Isabelle Prondzynski</b>.<br />
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Kenya Saijiki is based in Nairobi and currently comprises three haiku clubs; the Peacocks and the Bambochas (based in secondary schools) and the Cocks, a group of poets who have graduated from high school but still write haiku.<br />
The poets include both adults and secondary school students from Kayole Estate and Soweto Slum, Nairobi, with several other poets living in various parts of the country outside Nairobi.<br />
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Among other things, the group teaches the students how to write better poems, improve their communication skills and how to use computer and the internet.<br />
The co-ordinator of Kenya Saijiki and the Bambochas’ Patron, Mr Patrick Wafula, recently won a prize after his poem was entered in the Annual Poets’ Choice Competition of the Shiki Kukai.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">full moon—</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cumulus clouds slowly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">form a wolf</span><br />
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The haiku came into my mind while playing with my puppies in my home in Soweto. I have a habit of enjoying moonlit nights and the serenity that comes with it,” Mr Wafula told Kenya Saijiki during its 13th kukai.<br />
During the kukai, the school-going poets enjoyed a one-hour haiku walk observing and writing haiku.<br />
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A panel of judges from Kenya Saijiki went through the haiku that were submitted and selected the following top 11 prizewinning haiku.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">hot afternoon–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">he washes his face</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with sewage water</span><br />
-Rodgers Adega<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">immense heat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in my white plastic shoes–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">i walk on toes</span><br />
-Brian Etole<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">scattered feathers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of a slaughtered chicken–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ginkoo walk</span><br />
-Geoffrey Maina<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">dry grass–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a black goat struggles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to graze</span><br />
-Getrude Wahu<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">scorching sun–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">he splashes some water</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">down his chest</span><br />
-Dennis Wright<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ginkoo time–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">she writes haiku</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on his back</span><br />
-Molline Wangui<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">hot afternoon–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">he washes his head</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with cold water</span><br />
Walter Machembe<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-size: large;">riverside–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the rustling Napier grass</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bends in one direction</span><br />
Stanely Joshua Kaweto<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">scorching sun–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">two little boys fight over</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a bottle of water</span><br />
Julieth Oketch<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">garbage site–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I scare a swarm of flies</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from a pawpaw peel</span><br />
-Margaret Ndinda<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">scorching sun–</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a hawk flying around</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the smelly dumpsite</span><br />
-Stephen Macharia<br />
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<span style="color: #993399; font-size: 130%;"><b>Slum fires<br />
(Swahili : moto (singular) mioto (plural))</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: 130%;"><b>***** Location: Kenya<br />
***** Season: Topic<br />
***** Category: Humanity </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 130%;"><b>Explanation</b></span><br />
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The urban slums of Kenya are highly prone to fires. <br />
This is due to a cumulation of causes.<br />
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Each homestead has as its main focus the jiko, the fireplace or brazier, where food is cooked and heat is generated in the cold season. The jiko can be the traditional three stones, with firewood or maize cobs used as fuel. In the urban areas, it will more commonly be a brazier using charcoal, or a small metal cooker using kerosene oil.<br />
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Light is produced by hurricane lamps burning kerosene. Most homes keep a small supply of kerosene for their lamps and jiko.<br />
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Houses are small, and many combustible materials are kept within close range of any of these open fires. People, possibly with trailing clothes, move around the vicinity, and sometimes children play too near the fireplaces. During the cold season, nights are chilly, and there can be a tendency to leave fires to burn themselves out slowly while people are already falling asleep.<br />
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Ironing is done with charcoal irons, using live coals.<br />
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Many Kenyans are smokers, and careless handling of cigarettes can also cause fires.<br />
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Some small businesses use open fires -- maize roasters, fish fryers and mandazi bakers. These fires are normally well supervised and in any case extinguished as night falls.<br />
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Slum homes may also be threatened by external circumstances. These are fires starting in their neighbours' homes, fires due to sparking electricity cables, and (in one terrible incident in September 2011) a fire at the Kenya Pipeline in the Sinai section of Lunga Lunga slum. The huge oil pipeline, which ran through the slum, sprung a leak, and the slum dwellers tried to catch the spilling oil. It caught fire and exploded, killing and burning many. Some people jumped into the burning Ngong River to quench the flames, and many drowned there.<br />
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Text and photo © Isabelle Prondzynski<br />
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Some terrible pictures here of the <b>Sinai fire</b> (explosion at the Kenya Pipeline) <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=58366863%40N00&q=sinai&m=text">source : www.flickr.com </a> <br />
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And a video of the scene :<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAzL2mGLAE&feature=related">source : http://www.youtube.com </a> <br />
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<b>Written in August 2012</b><br />
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About a month ago, fire broke out in one of the houses in the Tujisaidie community in Soweto (in the Kayole suburb of Nairobi), and everything that the family owned was destroyed. Fortunately, no one was injured and the fire did not spread to neighbouring plots.<br />
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The community's youth group, Tumaini, was at that time welcoming a group of British visitors. Abandoning their guests to respond to the call for help, the youth ran to the site of the fire and, together with the neighbours, worked hard to put it out. This involved carrying water over quite a distance, as the pipes were dry at this time. The visitors helped as best they could, carrying jerricans of water in a long chain from the Nursery School water tank, until the flames had been quenched.<br />
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For the next day, they had planned a programme of calls to several projects in the community. But the visitors discussed the matter overnight and decided that helping to rebuild the burnt house was much more important. And so, they each contributed whatever funds they could, so that building materials could be bought, and the rest of the day was spent putting up a new corrugated iron house.<br />
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The rest of the community also got together. Everyone who could, donated some clothes, some pots and pans, a blanket and other essential items, to give the affected family a new start. Slum families support each other... and each of them had probably been helped by others already, at some other time...<br />
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Isabelle Prondzynski<br />
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<span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 130%;"><b>Worldwide use</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc6600;">HAIKU</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">as his fire crackles<br />
there is laughter and chat --<br />
maize roaster<br />
<br />
last rays<br />
of the red sunset --<br />
maize roaster’s fire<br />
<br />
evening cool --<br />
the fish fryer’s fire<br />
glows from afar </span><br />
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Isabelle Prondzynski<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">updates of fire<br />
in Soweto on Facebook --<br />
tears on my face<br />
<br />
the fire --<br />
Soweto goes dark<br />
once again<br />
<br />
still standing --<br />
burnt electricity poles<br />
telling the story<br />
<br />
black smoke<br />
engulfs the Soweto sunset --<br />
a rush of helpers<br />
<br />
water water<br />
everyone calls --<br />
flames and smoke </span><br />
<br />
Antony Njoroge<br />
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<b>Fire in Soweto, August 2012</b><br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">fire outbreak --<br />
a woman cries pleading<br />
for quick help<br />
<br />
rescue group --<br />
the watching crowd<br />
moves away<br />
<br />
fire outbreak --<br />
black smoke makes its way<br />
to the atmosphere </span><br />
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~ Brian Mulando<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">singing a song<br />
from a blackened Golden Bells --<br />
smouldering remains<br />
<br />
dancing smoke<br />
from a burnt mattress --<br />
village fire </span><br />
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~ James Bundi<br />
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On Saturday at dusk, after the fire tragedy that also destroyed a transformer and left a section of Soweto in darkness for three days, while we stood by watching the Kenya Power and Lighting Company staff fixing the transformer:<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">shooting star--<br />
we mistake its bright streak<br />
for power return </span><br />
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Patrick Wafula, August 22, 2012<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">thick smoke --<br />
my eyes are drenched<br />
with tears<br />
<br />
she wails<br />
on seeing burnt bodies --<br />
Sinai inferno<br />
<br />
oil floats on<br />
sparkling sewage --<br />
Ngong River<br />
<br />
an injured boy<br />
is lifted onto a stretcher --<br />
rescue mission<br />
<br />
Sinai heat --<br />
flames bubbling in<br />
the smokey sky<br />
<br />
Sinai tragedy --<br />
oil fumes linger<br />
in the air<br />
<br />
a pastor leads<br />
the bereaved in prayer --<br />
Sinai fire<br />
<br />
Tom Mboya Hall --<br />
a pile of burnt mabati<br />
at the entrance<br />
<br />
bereaved parade --<br />
a photographer identifies<br />
an impostor </span><br />
<br />
~ Andrew Otinga <br />
(on the Sinai Pipeline tragedy mentioned above)<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">fire tragedy --<br />
a crying child asking<br />
for her mother<br />
<br />
Sinai fire --<br />
displaced children<br />
crying for food </span><br />
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Authors unknown<br />
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<span style="font-size:130%;">August cold --<br />
a maize roaster pokes <br />
his smouldering fire </span><br />
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Caleb Mutua<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">on a jam<br />
dusty matatus on a stand still -<br />
Nakumatt blaze </span><br />
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Nakumatt blaze was a great supermarket fire in 2009.<br />
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Siboko Yamame<br />
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<a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2010/02/matatu-minibus.html"><span style="font-size: 130%;">. Matatu minibus . </span> </a><br />
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<span style="color: #cc6600; font-size: 130%;"><b>Related words</b></span><br />
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***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2005/02/brazier-jiko.html">Jiko (brazier) and makaa (charcoal) </a><br />
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-59040559341234518202012-06-24T18:07:00.008-07:002012-06-26T14:24:38.496-07:00Mitumba, mtumba second hand goods<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Mitumba (singular : mtumba) -- second-hand goods</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Topic<br />***** Category: Humanity </strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br />As in many other African countries, second-hand goods are very popular in Kenya. They enable the wananchi (citizens) to wear high-quality and fashionable clothes and shoes at an affordable price, to drive decent cars and to obtain hifi or computers.<br /><br />Most of the time, when we talk about mitumba, we mean clothes or shoes. These are sold in huge markets, such as Gikomba, where smaller traders can buy them wholesale in bulk as they arrive, split the contents of the sacks and sell them either in Gikomba itself, in the city centre or in the various residential areas around the city. Huge loads are also carried up-country to the rural areas for sale there.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1ix6zFQjXHNaO1QXhnINqwAt0Y1DjhtSTh4AkNbIPOwtM2hMf8RE20VrYKMyURl7g71PVlG4G1q8PkIpuqv577Mfcp7hkAmfZglK7Mu0s6mCfgz_T9EQGFusY3z8xh0q2t2R7g/s1600/mtumba+car+rain.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1ix6zFQjXHNaO1QXhnINqwAt0Y1DjhtSTh4AkNbIPOwtM2hMf8RE20VrYKMyURl7g71PVlG4G1q8PkIpuqv577Mfcp7hkAmfZglK7Mu0s6mCfgz_T9EQGFusY3z8xh0q2t2R7g/s400/mtumba+car+rain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5757776016729540802" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">A load of shoes being taken from Gikomba to up-country markets</span><br /><br />Almost every Kenyan, whether rich or poor, owns several items of mitumba. Many of the clothes sold as mitumba are almost brand new and in excellent condition. Some could be remnants from large chains in Europe or the USA sold in bulk to wholesalers for resale in African countries. Many are clothes donated to charitable organisations in the West. These sort the clothes according to their general condition. The poorer quality clothes are given free of charge to refugee camps and as emergency aid. The better quality clothes are sorted according to type (men's / women's, skirts / blouses / socks / trousers / T-shirts / underwear, etc.) and packed into sacks further graded according to the quality of the goods. These sacks are then shipped and sold in Kenya (e.g. in Gikomba) without opening them, according to the goods inside and their quality grade. Most buyers are too small to be able to afford an entire sack, so a group of traders would get together to share the cost and split the contents.<br /><br />There is a whole debate as to whether charitable organisations should be selling mitumba into African countries at all. These imports could destroy the national market for clothing, it is said. And it is true that during my years in Kenya, as imports of mitumba have increased, many of the smaller dressmaking and tailoring businesses have had to close. Others now specialise in alterations of mitumba clothes so that they fit their new owners. The more high-quality businesses have continued without too much trouble, particularly those specialising in African dress styles, as these are not in competition with foreign imports. School and work uniforms too have not been affected. It is my feeling that the import of mitumba is, on the whole, a good thing, as it enables Kenyans to dress smartly at a reasonable cost, provides many jobs in the informal sector -- and it even enables the original owners in other countries to give away their clothes and shoes in the knowledge that others will be able to benefit from them.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_vcPcE5f-xjTl8jxYgbHiC7Qx2rpL_h2tKQOKsHKqeZdEi3bqR7yBDRLuwR-CgQcQ1FW71l-BJ2hoTkNhE2TlToLXZ6ljglKCZdECaA03qOkJs5VnyNrvGUon5FkiRT9gA8TNQ/s1600/kenya+cloth+stall.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_vcPcE5f-xjTl8jxYgbHiC7Qx2rpL_h2tKQOKsHKqeZdEi3bqR7yBDRLuwR-CgQcQ1FW71l-BJ2hoTkNhE2TlToLXZ6ljglKCZdECaA03qOkJs5VnyNrvGUon5FkiRT9gA8TNQ/s400/kenya+cloth+stall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5757776550167912418" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Clothes stall under a tree</span><br /><br />Text and photos © Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br />It is mtumba in the singular and mitumba in the plural.<br />The word literally means second hand and could be used for clothing, shoes, cars, etc. -- it refers to anything that has been used and is being resold. The Government of Kenya recently zero-rated taxation on importation of mitumba ''to ease the high cost of living on the common man you know!''.<br /><br />Andrew Otinga<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&aq=f&aqi=g-L2&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=830&bih=816&wrapid=tlif134058696271811&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=4bvnT9THNqPcmAXQ9qz6Cg&q=Gikomba%20Market%20kenya"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 183px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVEhG8Ocf91TFpv3Yio_EOBJ3uLCRPUFLek9YLl_Twnv6rprJuwtVQPFE6ketpPIt3NcgmWrcUxf98fbJqaqT8Pg6lXz7zfNQMagMvB5togg_MMbJUB30vPCeCyZ1iK4mXwUcLQ/s400/gikomba+market.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5757777358085493170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Read more here :</span><br /><a href="http://www.seatimesafrica.com/2012/02/10/high-duty-dampens-used-clothes-trade/">source : www.seatimesafrica.com </a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:130%;" >Gikomba Market </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">gikomba or gikosh</span><br />is a second hand clothes market that started in the 1980’s as a result of space in retail market. the lack ofphysical space forced the more that one hundred traders to move to the area between majengo, karikor and kamukunji<br /><br />The original settlers were allocated plots but with time as the market became more popular settled illegally…today there are more than 4000 traders<br /><a href="http://www.mwakenya.net/apps/blog/show/6471669">source : www.mwakenya.net </a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a watchman bargains<br />for a mtumba jacket --<br />Muthurwa market<br /><br />a seller shows<br />a high-heeled mtumba shoe --<br />mia mia!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(mia means a hundred in Swahili)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a street child picks at<br />muddy mtumba trousers --<br />riverside market</span><br /><br />~ Dancan Omoto<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a student catwalks<br />in her mitumba high heels --<br />beauty contest<br /><br />a stall with<br />cheaper mitumba jackets --<br />I buy three</span><br /><br />~ Catherine Njeri Maina<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a student tries on<br />his mtumba shirt --<br />new smell</span><br /><br />~ Andrew Otinga<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">abrupt rain --<br />pedestrians scramble for<br />mitumba raincoats</span><br /><br />~ Dennis Wright<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-T13jm34P4MVxDNrVF8gMA4sVt4AKppprHvnaHO7XETtN-BynoE_JLCPKJdOXOUAkI2piUw7ZrB3EZ1mlsjQB7qaAXu4vs5I2JeE9FjIB8yrPoyFc0JjoNOVL119UKbQbEEbBQ/s1600/mtumba+shoes.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-T13jm34P4MVxDNrVF8gMA4sVt4AKppprHvnaHO7XETtN-BynoE_JLCPKJdOXOUAkI2piUw7ZrB3EZ1mlsjQB7qaAXu4vs5I2JeE9FjIB8yrPoyFc0JjoNOVL119UKbQbEEbBQ/s400/mtumba+shoes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5757778237478332946" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Mtumba shoes for sale</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">mitumba wholesaler --<br />he presses the sack down<br />to remove rain</span><br /><br />~ John Maina<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">mitumba display --<br />she grabs the blue jeans<br />and quickly pays</span><br /><br />~ Stanley Mutinda<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sudden rain --<br />she shelters mitumba clothes<br />with a red umbrella</span><br /><br />~ Synaidah Kalahi<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">mitumba stall --<br />a nursing mother sorts out<br />a shawl from kangas</span><br /><br />~ Brian Mulando<br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br />I have worn mitumba clothes and shoes my entire life and one thing I know for sure is that mitumba are not just anything sold as second hand.<br /><br />Yes mitumba are second hand merchandise resold in the Kenyan Market but there are several attributes that set mitumba apart from new or other second hand goods.<br /><br />Mitumba mostly come from western countries and are imported in bales which wholesalers buy and then sell to mostly middle-class Kenyans in retail. They include shoes, clothes, bags, curtains, bed sheets.<br /><br />But even more importantly, mitumba merchandise are of good quality (original) and that, I think, sets them apart from other second hand goods.<br /><br />Its worth mentioning that there is a myth in Kenya that mitumba are cheap...Well, while most mitumba products are cheap, this is not entirely true. I know a place in Gikomba Market, the biggest mitumba market in Kenya, where a mtumba shoe is far much expensive than a new shoe in the shop. And some people appreciate mitumba so much that they wont wear anything new.<br /><br />Mitumba goods, unlike other second hand goods, are very unique. What I like about mitumba is that you can get a shirt that very few people have in town. In fact, my friends and I refer to any new merchandise as "Kenya Uniform" because you will find many Kenyans with the same shoe, shirt or jacket.<br /><br />For instance, early last month I bought a mtumba blazer and I have been to several tailors who've all told me that I cant find a trouser of the same material and colour to match the blazer because its one of its kind.<br /><br />The word "mtumba" has lately been used loosely to mean anything second hand. Nonetheless, my point is we should not forget what "mtumba" really means.<br /><br />I am currently an intern with The Daily Nation Newspaper and last week my editor sent me to Kariokor where Gikomba and Ngara mitumba traders had attended a public hearing arranged by Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA).<br /><br />It emerged that the government of Kenya through KURA plans to demolish almost half of these markets to pave way for construction of roads<br /><br />Traders openly expressed their anger and distrust on the government plan to compensate them after demolishing their temporary stalls.Please find time to read the whole story on my blog<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Nairobi Digest - http://nairobidigest.wordpress.com </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Kariokor--<br />mitumba traders trickle<br />in the hall<br /><br />mitumba traders<br />clap and whistle in unison--<br />Kariokor hearing</span><br /><br />Caleb Mutua<br />(http://nairobidigest.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/new-roads-in-nairobi-to-affect-thousands-of-traders-and-squatters/).<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/">WKD : Reference </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . 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BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Kibanda hut<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Topic<br />***** Category: Humanity </strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">kibanda - stall, lean-to, cottage, cabin, booth, kiosk, etc.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbSMHo4a5SRjBpbfD8FDer2PTtpJcLzzVt4VM8YFuzvG7QfAfk7uHxKAbltclXAdWGxp8QXkpgWujOJtkIwDeh40v3jh0iFS1jxFYKbdwY2d5uAwjhfmIDapt8IjQ8dofagJblrA/s1600/kibanda+isabelle.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbSMHo4a5SRjBpbfD8FDer2PTtpJcLzzVt4VM8YFuzvG7QfAfk7uHxKAbltclXAdWGxp8QXkpgWujOJtkIwDeh40v3jh0iFS1jxFYKbdwY2d5uAwjhfmIDapt8IjQ8dofagJblrA/s400/kibanda+isabelle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740037585797735954" border="0" /></a><br /><br />large enough for several pedestrians to shelter there in the rain.<br /><br />A kibanda in Kenya can be a haiku topic, but definitely not a kigo, as we have them all year round, and they are not normally built big enough to shelter several people from the rain!<br /><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/4169">Isabelle Prondzynski </a> <br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhto5ddCbPHQaL4_7ELsNPwABXxmaAZNV0tF7kg0_3l3mp621AIrt9DpF4AOypp_WyqnYWpvcG7ZDOhns2Ks2tQiq9Q1b4kHOnNZInWykzLwcLLMoQn83EdB1Db3_pZYzsJVp5p0Q/s1600/kibanda+hut.bmp"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhto5ddCbPHQaL4_7ELsNPwABXxmaAZNV0tF7kg0_3l3mp621AIrt9DpF4AOypp_WyqnYWpvcG7ZDOhns2Ks2tQiq9Q1b4kHOnNZInWykzLwcLLMoQn83EdB1Db3_pZYzsJVp5p0Q/s400/kibanda+hut.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740036639934748130" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">kibanda hut</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.kenyans.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43627%20">source : Photos of Kibanda </a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjP3de0gapFHdZ6p42Pu3N1PEomzZbV9PmWXDaY1fmEWZtRUbGeQTY6jYqLk0l6TAFIzA-K0nO7CcU0pKW7blEl7oA0f1KGPU3Bljey1kexuzQLfko4M517aPfWA7-0LRO8IawAg/s1600/kibanda+sta.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjP3de0gapFHdZ6p42Pu3N1PEomzZbV9PmWXDaY1fmEWZtRUbGeQTY6jYqLk0l6TAFIzA-K0nO7CcU0pKW7blEl7oA0f1KGPU3Bljey1kexuzQLfko4M517aPfWA7-0LRO8IawAg/s400/kibanda+sta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740036797865852018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">kibanda stall</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">under kibanda-<br />the incoming pedestrians<br />make it full<br /><br />sudden shower -<br />I find shelter<br />under a kibanda </span><br /><br />Elijah Juma<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/">WKD : Reference </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . 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This was the first rain signalling the onset of the long rains, which had come a little late this year.<br /><br />On arrival at the Embassy, we were warmly and courteously welcomed. The security procedure was elaborate and rigorous, as all items were screened and deposited with the security staff. Both the haijin and teachers were amazed at these rigorous security checks. Mobile phones and cameras were not allowed into the Embassy; no photographs in or around the Embassy were allowed. We were only authorised to take photographs in the Embassy Hall.<br /><br />The first session was <span style="font-weight:bold;">a film about Japan</span>, which highlighted the following areas:<br /><br />-- education,<br />-- the economy,<br />-- culture,<br />-- international co-operation,<br />-- industry,<br />-- technology.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfXUg-PpfrRtHEvD0HfsP2qqKbzHA26lQnkVRv-YirL0lxVJFf1K2wDzgyMHiVVcZokTkoLgtOAXc8jmfbPDS0-Eks6Ey-MqUmnwOckUofI6Sqq6nK6vsGfyVWNj427wd_0Hiyg/s1600/culture+kenya+01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfXUg-PpfrRtHEvD0HfsP2qqKbzHA26lQnkVRv-YirL0lxVJFf1K2wDzgyMHiVVcZokTkoLgtOAXc8jmfbPDS0-Eks6Ey-MqUmnwOckUofI6Sqq6nK6vsGfyVWNj427wd_0Hiyg/s400/culture+kenya+01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729958142240469570" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Preparing for the film projection</span><br /><br /><br />Session two was <span style="font-weight:bold;">origami</span>. It was exciting as the students were taught how to make things of different shapes by folding paper. These things ranged from animals to geometrical shapes. It was amazing to learn that it takes four days to construct a horse! After the demonstration, students were each given six papers and asked to make a cube. It was exciting even to the teachers.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I fold paper<br />the opposite way --<br />origami<br /><br />missing one step --<br />I assemble a wobbly<br />cube</span><br /><br />~ Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P493wpWN5rnwfuVPlBa2CLjFlu_P8S6rZs-EYWyMrxD4ag1VFmcR6DHp54gNnrePkEPrsGLesakD41E74gp35VfPGDcZe2-IOnQXbDGY7nj3sWJzhjd3mXKFzBL5Db2rKa4_Lg/s1600/culture+kenya+02.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P493wpWN5rnwfuVPlBa2CLjFlu_P8S6rZs-EYWyMrxD4ag1VFmcR6DHp54gNnrePkEPrsGLesakD41E74gp35VfPGDcZe2-IOnQXbDGY7nj3sWJzhjd3mXKFzBL5Db2rKa4_Lg/s400/culture+kenya+02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729958551981806050" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Origami sheets ready</span><br /><br /><br /><br />In the third session, the haijin were taught some <span style="font-weight:bold;">Japanese greetings, common phrases and the numbers 1 to10</span>. This was followed by an oral quiz to assess which haijin in the hall had been the most attentive. Most as some of the numbers, it turned out, sound like words in the English language. The haijin enjoyed finding those words and matching them with the numbers to enable them to remember the numbers better.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">1: ichi (itchy)<br />2: ni (knee)<br />3: san (sun / son)<br />4. shi / yon: (she / yawn)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Session Four was a <span style="font-weight:bold;">Japanese Love and Family Relations Film</span>, which was very much enjoyed by all. It was about a young man called Matsuo and a girl called Izumi, and a restless, ever travelling old man called Tora, who had so many women in his life, but none for a wife, until he met Lily, an aged, but beautiful woman from an island. Izumi was in love with Matsuo, but her parents betrothed her to another man because Matsuo was jobless, but in the end, each of these couples were happily married.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">dark room --<br />the projector’s gentle<br />hum</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXj5FOJ6GFtOlKSliTTBAMp2P6-wY_s5ciCgKzL-bfDYcPe2Z4p3v3Iey_JIJBLvh6GswzJEaTE-dT1DabCjcEG4-e2fkeYGYfoiLyXXpy8hQivBcZsez2xq8L5DYU6HbAdYMEg/s1600/culture+kenya+03.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXj5FOJ6GFtOlKSliTTBAMp2P6-wY_s5ciCgKzL-bfDYcPe2Z4p3v3Iey_JIJBLvh6GswzJEaTE-dT1DabCjcEG4-e2fkeYGYfoiLyXXpy8hQivBcZsez2xq8L5DYU6HbAdYMEg/s400/culture+kenya+03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729959058902163618" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Film projection</span><br /><br /><br />Lastly the haijin were allowed to tour the <span style="font-weight:bold;">library</span> and take a number of photos before boarding their bus and heading back to Eastlands. The rest of the experiences are very personal and are only revealed through the haiku and photos that accompany this write up. All the haiku were written within the Embassy.<br /><br />The haijin are gratefully indebted to Isabelle Prondzynski, our Moderator, for providing the haijin with transport fare, Otinga Andrew, for organizing the St. Mathew haijin, availing the bus and providing administrative support throughout the excursion; the Japanese Embassy staff, Shemi, David and Susan for taking the haijin through all the exciting events above: David san for a very interesting origami session; Susan san for teaching the haijin Japanese greetings and numbers; and Shemi san for organizing the whole event and inviting us. Last, but not least, the entire Embassy of Japan in Nairobi for their six years of co-operation and support to the Haiku Clubs of Nairobi.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15ro8YLRtpWFdMZkUVXAtfJGXs1aMASHVP2y4W10_EdyfYnNIFeDA3LFlFCVYdIzoVGdqxOYa9sqYYxahDH0Y9A1T_FCa6n30sMA3v7b1axj1ygS2QhA1LGfVuTceW7IJR8dA4g/s1600/culture+kenya+04.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15ro8YLRtpWFdMZkUVXAtfJGXs1aMASHVP2y4W10_EdyfYnNIFeDA3LFlFCVYdIzoVGdqxOYa9sqYYxahDH0Y9A1T_FCa6n30sMA3v7b1axj1ygS2QhA1LGfVuTceW7IJR8dA4g/s400/culture+kenya+04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729959415154901682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">School bus waiting for the return journey</span><br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />cultural show --<br />reflected ray from Japanese<br />aquarium</span><br /><br />~ Caxton Okoth<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">car park --<br />our bus enters after<br />a security check</span><br /><br />~ Diana Dolla<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />rush --<br />the sliproad overloaded<br />with vehicles</span><br /><br />~ Moses Nyawanga<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />writing haiku --<br />her head moves with the<br />grasshopper's hop</span><br /><br />~ Flora Mbayi<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">origami --<br />colored papers litter<br />the grey carpet<br /><br />security check --<br />a tweet on leaving<br />the glass cabinet</span><br /><br />~ Brian Etole<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">origami --<br />I find it exciting making<br />colored boxes<br /><br />learning lesson --<br />I find it hard pronouncing<br />Japanese words<br /><br />dark clouds --<br />I shiver from light showers and<br />cool breeze</span><br /><br />~ Brian Mulando<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />slippery floor --<br />I nearly fall but my friend<br />catches me</span><br /><br />~ Winfridah Malesi<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />dark clouds --<br />an eagle flies around<br />the embassy aerial</span><br /><br />~Annabel Mwendwa<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />dark clouds --<br />raindrops fall on the<br />happy haijin<br /></span><br />~ John Maina<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />dark room --<br />I enjoy a Japanese<br />comic movie</span><br /><br />~ Ezekiel Mbira<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />the end --<br />the Japanese movie leaves<br />me in suspense</span><br /><br />~ Dennis Wright<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">haijins' uproar --<br />three dolphins dance<br />on water<br /><br />coloured cubes<br />on white tables --<br />origami</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">folding --<br />the yellow paper<br />gets torn<br /><br />one bulb after<br />the other turns on --<br />roaring generator</span><br /><br />~ Andrew Otinga<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tTO_Lu2TLczxB_MEY8sfqE2-IIrBbIDXs9gdMq4wVsRCx8M9JX6WyMTFjNPa0cQqTlf82_hVPzBWfHwsgh7pBl_q1dmlQRpjKZWCJRdjLJUYMaY_C4yZ3tfHSVBl3hpsZaeBiQ/s1600/culture+kenya+05.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tTO_Lu2TLczxB_MEY8sfqE2-IIrBbIDXs9gdMq4wVsRCx8M9JX6WyMTFjNPa0cQqTlf82_hVPzBWfHwsgh7pBl_q1dmlQRpjKZWCJRdjLJUYMaY_C4yZ3tfHSVBl3hpsZaeBiQ/s400/culture+kenya+05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729960590393980226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Andrew Otinga and the origami sheets</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">we go through<br />the vigorous screening...<br />Japan Embassy</span><br /><br />~ Jackson Shilaho<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">origami --<br />I concentrate on making<br />my colorful box</span><br /><br />~ Metrine Okalo<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Japanese embassy --<br />a warm welcome from<br />the guards</span><br /><br />~ Geoffrey Maina<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">coloured papers --<br />I struggle to make<br />a cube<br /><br />colorful table --<br />students display their<br />finished cubes<br /><br />lights off --<br />the start of a Japanese<br />cultural movie<br /><br />rain drops --<br />rythmic mabati sound<br />lulls her to sleep</span><br /><br />~ Elijah Juma<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Japanese library --<br />she is attracted to the left<br />bookshelf<br /><br />chilly noon --<br />trees swaying<br />sideways</span><br /><br />~ Marcellina Amunze<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />upstairs --<br />he holds a flower<br />smilingly</span><br /><br />~ Joseph Musango<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">several folds --<br />a colourful box on<br />the table<br /><br />embassy library --<br />the books arranged<br />alphabetically</span><br /><br />~ Joshua Kaweto<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">colourful compound--<br />flowers nourishes the<br />environment</span><br /><br />~ Agness Ndinda<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Japanese Embassy --<br />the Japanese flag sways<br />in the breeze</span><br /><br />~ Mary Wanjama<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a bee sucks nectar<br />from morning glory --<br />Embassy wall</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">rain --<br />morning dew shining<br />on the grass</span><br /><br />~ Sylvia Mmbone<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Japan Embassy --<br />a paved corridor roofed<br />with climbing plants<br /><br />Japanese film --<br />quiet theatre as we watch<br />a cultural show</span><br /><br />~ Isaac Ndirangu<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">shuffle of papers<br />as we make cubes --<br />silent room</span><br /><br />~ Stephen Macharia<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Japanese Library --<br />haijin enjoy Japanese<br />monuments</span><br /><br />~ Lucy Mukuhi<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">jovial faces --<br />haijin enjoy Japanese<br />arts</span><br /><br />~ Willis Wanga<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">origami makes<br />the haijin to think --<br />calm room<br /></span><br />~ Collins Omuganda<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">noon drizzle --<br />droplets fall from<br />a eucalyptus tree<br /><br />colourful fireworks --<br />Japanese culture on<br />display</span><br /><br />~ Eric Mwange<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">jacaranda tree --<br />leaves sway from side<br />to side<br /></span><br />~ Irene Aluoch<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">students tour<br />the Embassy --<br />short break</span><br /><br />~ Felix Kavayo<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Embassy --<br />such a clean<br />environment</span><br /><br />~ Hillaey Shisoka<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />dolphins swim<br />and dance happily --<br />movie</span><br /><br />~ Melvine Ayako<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">dark room --<br />cheers after watching<br />the movie</span><br /><br />~ Emmanuel Mutati<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Japanese poem --<br />we understand Japanese<br />movie</span><br /><br />~ Koskei Cornelios<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">students squeeze<br />through security door --<br />Embassy exit</span><br /><br />~ Consolata Akoth<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />haijin sit<br />on the grass to write haiku --<br />Embassy visit</span><br /><br />~ Anonymous<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">cold weather --<br />we put on sweaters<br />outside the Embassy</span><br /><br />~ Mary Njambi<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />haijin struggle<br />through the security door --<br />Japanese Embassy</span><br /><br />~Victor Obutho<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">cold morning --<br />the scent of flowers<br />at the gate</span><br /><br />~ Susan Njeri<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />flower bed --<br />a withered rose<br />falls down</span><br /><br />~ Eunice Katiwa<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">echoing hall --<br />the haijins’ jubilation<br />after the movie<br /><br />flower bed --<br />an uprooted weed lies<br />on the pavement</span><br /><br />~ Gloria Kerubo<br /><br /><br />-----------------------<br /><br /><br />Report and photos by Patrick Wafula for Kenya Saijiki<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2006/12/japanese-culture-week-2008.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Japane Culture Week 2008 . </span> </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-23763497265160958422012-03-29T19:30:00.010-07:002012-04-04T22:16:31.108-07:00Mini Haiku Walk<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Kenya Saijiki Mini Ginko </strong></span><br /><br />11 February 2012<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Report by<br />Patrick Wafula, Andrew Otinga and Caleb Mutua</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span></span><br />On Saturday 11 February 2012, the haiku clubs of two schools, Bahati Secondary School (the “Bambochas”) and St. Mathew Secondary School (the “Peacocks”) converged for a mini ginkoo at St. Mathew Secondary School’s Soweto campus.<br /><br />The interaction was in the afternoon, after the student haijin had finished their Saturday tuition. The Patrons of the haiku clubs (Patrick sensei, Otinga san and Caleb san) were there to provide guidance and to allow the student haijin to interact freely and write haiku together.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agenda</span></span><br />Ø Brief talks from club Patrons<br />Ø Brief talks from the clubs’ representatives<br />Ø Five senses of observation<br />Ø February Shiki Kukai competition<br />Ø Message from Kenya Saijiki Moderator<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span></span><br />Caleb san, assisted by Peacock club representatives, helped arrange the venue and led the introduction part as the students waited for Patrick sensei and Otinga san. When the two patrons arrived at the venue, Caleb san invited Patrick sensei, who was running late for another meeting, to officially start the first Mini Kukai of this year.<br /><br />Patrick sensei expressed his satisfaction with the performance of the students in the Kenya Saijiki Forum. He also thanked the Moderator of the forum and Gabi sensei for their continued participation in the Saijiki. He then proceeded to share with the students the programme and activities the Patrons had outlined for this term. Among other things were two meetings each month between the two schools and continuous discussions on the progress of the students.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Five senses of observation</span></span><br />Patrick sensei explained how to use the five senses of observation when observing and writing haiku -- this was after Otinga san had asked him to help his students because he had observed that most Peacocks wrote most of their haiku based on their sense of sight.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Each haijin was asked to write down each of the five senses and descriptive words that go with each sense. The haijin were then asked to bring the list with them to the outdoor activity fieldwork scheduled later in afternoon. He elaborated this by writing two desk haiku on the sense of hearing and the sense of taste.<br /><br />Mr. Otinga was next. As the host, he began by welcoming the audience to St. Mathew Secondary School and asking them to feel at home. He then thanked the students for beginning the year with fervour and zest. He said he was impressed with the improvements the students had made and thanked the Moderator for her comments on the haijin’s haiku. He stressed that these comments had helped the students a lot. He also thanked Patrick sensei for taking it upon himself to give detailed responses on questions about the five senses. He hoped the haijin would make a habit of using the other senses as well as the sense of sight.<br /><br />He thanked sensei for his devotion and asked to be excused from teaching haiku because he believed he still had a lot to learn. However, he asked both Patrick sensei and Caleb san to allow him accompany them every time they alternatingly went for haiku discussions. He finished by inviting remarks from all club representatives from both schools.<br /><br />Club representatives were brief with their congratulatory presentations thanking their patrons and club members for the support they have been receiving.<br /><br />Caleb was the last to speak. His presentation was based on a message from the Moderator of Kenya Saijiki, Ms. Isabelle Prondzynski. He read to the audience some of the latest comments from the Moderator. He underscored to the students the need to keep the words that “belong” together in the same line (together).<br /><br />He wrote on the blackboard some of the haiku which the moderator had suggested that their author of those haiku rewrite by putting words that “belong” together in the same line. The meeting was closed and students proceeded to Soweto Stage where there is a market for groceries and fruit.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2PPyIjGmSGNeJyQxE6jSV29TPDrLdTsxff7UTu9QwNI8be9okVAQC1u7GHFKvUu-aUUbhR2j523oTx-itJ105hC19U7-KOs3RJWd2NvJyX5hHci4eLMtugtWuVfYnmrHNYDBfQA/s1600/Kenya+manoges.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2PPyIjGmSGNeJyQxE6jSV29TPDrLdTsxff7UTu9QwNI8be9okVAQC1u7GHFKvUu-aUUbhR2j523oTx-itJ105hC19U7-KOs3RJWd2NvJyX5hHci4eLMtugtWuVfYnmrHNYDBfQA/s400/Kenya+manoges.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727780556270783074" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mangoes</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mini Ginkoo</span></span><br />Haijin converged at Soweto Stage Market a few minutes past 2pm. Caleb and Mr. Andrew Otinga reminded the haijin to take a keen interest in plums and mangos, being the current kigo.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Late lunch </span></span><br />After the ginkoo, the haijin went to a famous café called Babylon Kitchen where they brushed up their poems over a late lunch.<br /><br />On behalf of the clubs, Mr. Otinga sincerely thanked Patrick sensei for offering to buy all the haijin present at the ginkoo some snacks. He termed him a cheerful giver.<br /><br />After the lunch, he patrons closed the kukai and thanked all the haijin who had given their time to make the event a success.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommendations and Conclusions</span></span><br />1. Patrons and club representatives concluded that haijin had started the year well.<br /><br />2. Club representatives from Bahati acknowledged that some of their haijin had not been serious haiku poets and promised a change for the better.<br /><br />3. Both patrons and haijin concluded that smell of urine is a kigo for the hot dry season because even though the smell of urine is there all year round, during the hot dry season the stench is increased because of the heat.<br /><br />4. Club patrons concluded that the next ginkoo will involve haijin from St. Mathew Secondary School (Kangundo Road branch).<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ZmccroQt80U9nhNNKMvLbxaw5yUrv_c3vXXSh3hQ86oRUOkQG4hRlMjieRaQ5QTyZ7XXeLV1Hxrdgrv7x-9uNlVFPFlGTEwf2o89t5spA15-Ndev1PDyfrKYnHZYa4AExrm0JQ/s1600/Kenya+plums.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ZmccroQt80U9nhNNKMvLbxaw5yUrv_c3vXXSh3hQ86oRUOkQG4hRlMjieRaQ5QTyZ7XXeLV1Hxrdgrv7x-9uNlVFPFlGTEwf2o89t5spA15-Ndev1PDyfrKYnHZYa4AExrm0JQ/s400/Kenya+plums.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727780777556738674" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Plums</span><br /><br /><br />Patrick sensei also submitted his own poems :<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">morning sunrays —<br />our hen pecks at itself<br />in the mirror<br /><br />shouts of goal —<br />a trail of dust follows<br />the polythene ball</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Compiled by Caleb Mutua<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">© Kenya Saijiki</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">© Photos : Isabelle Prondzynski </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.jp/2006/12/kenya-haiku-clubs.html">The Haiku Clubs of Nairobi </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . 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BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>St Valentine’s Day (Valentine’s Day, Valentine)<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Hot dry season<br />***** Category: Observance </strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br />Despite the little knowledge about its origin, the majority of Kenyans, especially the urban folks, believe Valentine to be the celebration of love. The colour red is the predominant mark for this day, and it is exhibited in flowers and clothes.<br /><br />In Nairobi, St. Valentine's Day is highly commercialised. Flower, clothes, shoe and other accessory vendors and supermarkets, as well as hawkers, capitalise on this occasion and stock red coloured Valentine's items at strategic points to attract customer attention. Since red roses are expensive and in short supply, traders substitute them with plastic ones. Husbands and wives buy each other gifts and flowers and they dress in red; so do lovers. Couples go out to exclusive joints to spend a romantic moment together. Restaurants, hotels, pubs and resorts are decorated in red and special entertainments and menus are prepared to match their clients' needs.<br /><br />The best climax about St Valentine's Day however is the renewal of love vows and re-affirming love and faithfulness to each other in our relationships.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdcrlRebE_cVSq4CS0WYJmr3dNTRJ_9qIVyuEzhnYs_GGGEwhB8SX4RANaE3Im6_1RUPWO9YxyoFRMF_LyHpwCB5JCYIyqsYAQyq1zROdsjO5Om3eDvoqSvqd46WjtPLsX9RSKEg/s1600/Valentine+Kenya+01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdcrlRebE_cVSq4CS0WYJmr3dNTRJ_9qIVyuEzhnYs_GGGEwhB8SX4RANaE3Im6_1RUPWO9YxyoFRMF_LyHpwCB5JCYIyqsYAQyq1zROdsjO5Om3eDvoqSvqd46WjtPLsX9RSKEg/s400/Valentine+Kenya+01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710669460144182610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A whirl of red synthetic roses with a bottle of grape drink</span><br /><br />Text and photo © Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br />This year, 2012, I was amazed by the ingenuity of Nairobi business people with regard to St. Valentine’s Day. This time round they went a notch higher with the Valentine affair. To start with, a couple of days prior to St. Valentine’s Day, they put up flower tents on almost every major street in the city centre. The flower tents were complete with smartly dressed sales people; the red flowers, which are usually synthetic (plastic), were this time round mingled with real fresh red roses. Secondly, to make it even more fabulous, the flowers were wrapped along with other beautiful gifts such as red teddy bears, chocolate, ribbons, or small, cute traditional reed baskets. The prices varied depending on the package. A whirl of real red roses cost as much as Kshs. 1,200. A teddy bear could even cost Kshs 2,000.<br /><br />The supermarkets too were more creative. They set up Valentine stands right in the entrances, all shrouded in red. They offered very attractive Valentine packages with alluring gifts. All packages<br />included at least a red flower and ribbons. But some packages contained not just flowers and beautiful wrappings, but red wine, hot chocolate and huge teddy bears with fantastic love messages, such as “I am Thinking of You, My Thoughts Are Inside,” scribbled across them. A gift wrap with a bottle of wine, sweets and a chocolate bar cost around Kshs. 1,300.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfJVvKvltReZVrMx4E-473uwQhFrDbfV0qPFc-OPaHVCGjhhbEVEV5jQlE5o_XqD-BBxbfyH15_oRlhxXs92J815oPuOpIK-oSoSGDwrxeaDW7XD9CkbdPi_NbxY1hmoSATJCTA/s1600/Valentine+Kenya+02.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfJVvKvltReZVrMx4E-473uwQhFrDbfV0qPFc-OPaHVCGjhhbEVEV5jQlE5o_XqD-BBxbfyH15_oRlhxXs92J815oPuOpIK-oSoSGDwrxeaDW7XD9CkbdPi_NbxY1hmoSATJCTA/s400/Valentine+Kenya+02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710669785752841554" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Valentine’s Day stand at Tuskey’s, Moi Avenue</span><br /><br />Nairobi city centre last evening was engulfed in romantic shopping sprees with supermarkets remaining open up to 9.00pm to serve their ravenous Valentine clientele. Hawkers too, strategically positioned all around the city, were making a kill; they sold the flowers and gifts at a more reduced price than the supermarkets.<br /><br />Kenyans may not be as romantic as Nigerians, but I can assure you, they are pretentiously romantic: during day time, they harbour severe faces and religious behaviours, but at night, as darkness descends over the land, they turn vivacious, lascivious and openly romantic.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine —<br />a red ribbon fluttering<br />on a matatu mirror<br /><br />Moi Avenue —<br />an abandoned<br />red plastic flower </span><br /><br />Text, haiku and photo © Patrick Wafula<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br />Unusually for a saint, St Valentine’s Day is not usually celebrated in church. The reason is that he lived so long ago, that no one is quite sure whether the stories about his life are true, or whether they have grown over the centuries without there being a firm basis of truth. On the other hand, when St Valentine's Day falls on a Sunday, the churches usually take the opportunity to talk about love, loyalty and faithfulness to one's partner.<br /><br />It is to find red roses in Nairobi on St Valentine’s Day. Kenya produces the greatest number of roses exported in the world, many of which are red, and almost all of which come from around Lake Naivasha. But as the export trade is so strong for red roses around St Valentine's Day, there are usually insufficient of them left for Kenya itself! Every night, there are several Jumbo Jets flying out of Nairobi, loaded with nothing but flowers (mostly roses, as it happens)...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">loading the plane --<br />surrounded by the scent<br />of St Valentine's</span><br /><br />With its huge variety of other offerings in red, Kenya has truly made St Valentine's Day its very own festival.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwdK4b_PFSQk3zNiw5VVkOJ0RRPRKEu4WSTcfL1toz0NvgraMJKVL6oD8-Zoa7r82AOlODguyWXaDbvCfxR9IRc0sfd36s8NIA8zC2En6UGGkBvD43jqG7VTI2MytUK4lyw1cMQ/s1600/Valentine+Kenya+03.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwdK4b_PFSQk3zNiw5VVkOJ0RRPRKEu4WSTcfL1toz0NvgraMJKVL6oD8-Zoa7r82AOlODguyWXaDbvCfxR9IRc0sfd36s8NIA8zC2En6UGGkBvD43jqG7VTI2MytUK4lyw1cMQ/s400/Valentine+Kenya+03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710670327374477586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Preparing an arrangement of red roses at City Market, Nairobi</span><br /><br />Text, haiku and photo © Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentines-day-2012.html">WKD : Valentine's Day 2012 </a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Haibun </span></span><br /><br />In Nairobi ’s Kayole / Soweto slums where I live and work, February is usually a dry dusty month full of dusty breezes. But the sunrises are gloriously splendid. You wake up guaranteed a golden orange sun and an azure-blue sky. But on 14 February 2009, I celebrated a unique Valentine like none other I had ever had. I dated a person living with HIV/AIDS.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Valentine’s day--<br />red roses displayed<br />on dusty roadsides</span><br /><br />17: 05 hours: I did not know what could be the best gift for my date as I closed and locked my office. I started off to our rendezvous — her flat. It was a lovely evening with a cool breeze sweeping across Soweto slum, mildly stirring up a little dust here and there, and sometimes a whole litter of polythene bags floated in the dark blue evening sky. Most of the young cute-looking people I met on the streets were either fully or half dressed in something red or at least had something red tagged somewhere on their cloth.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">students crowding<br />a lush red coloured stall —<br />Valentine’s cards<br /></span><br />Romanticism was slowly enveloping Kayole and Soweto slums in the twilight; the boldness of the uniformed students in pairs bargaining for Valentine Cards and gifts that were variously and creatively designed to offer variety totally mesmerized me; this scenario pushed me a notch higher on the Valentine Richter Scale. I was pressed for time. Not only was I required to accomplish my date with Miss L. (not her real name -- names are not mentioned here for confidentiality reasons), but I was also required to take my wife out on a date to Nyama Villa and later throw a late night family party with for our three daughters Faith, Esther and Liz.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine ballads —<br />nostalgia for memories past<br />burns me up</span><br /><br />Let me tell you more about my work. I work in a community secondary school based in Nairobi ’s Kayole Soweto slum. The school has a mixed population of both boys and girls of about 600 students aged between 13 and 18. But sometimes we receive extraordinary and unusual students not only in age, but also in background and experience. Some are aged over twenty and some are just below twenty but their experiences are flabbergasting. The oldest student we have ever received was Master R who was aged twenty-six in 2005. Master R completed his KCSE examination in 2008 and is now a teacher.<br /><br />In fact, our school is a very special centre that mends broken dreams, lives, brains, hopes and hearts. For the seven years I have worked here, though, the year 2009 was an exceptional year for me. For the first time, we had two students, Miss M and Miss D sitting their KCSE exams with distended blessings in their wombs. And for the first time, we also had two students living with HIV/AIDS in our midst. They were Miss B and W. Of course I do not imply that we have never had teenage pregnancies in our school before; far from it. In fact, we do have them every year, even though our statistics for the last five years—2005-2009—show a sharp decline. The fact is that in 2009 we did not treat these cases in the usual tradition of expelling and stigmatizing. Instead, we showed sensitivity, understanding and moral as well as psychological support. We advised them to sit their exams and sternly cautioned all the other students against any form of discrimination and stigmatization. The question that triggered this was:<br /><br />“Why haven’t we, as a society, ever expelled or stigmatized the boys or men who usually impregnate these girls? Why should the girls carry the burden of pregnancy alone, while the boy or man with whom they shared the pleasure of pro-creating is allowed to go on with his life totally uninterrupted?”<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">she is too large<br />to fit in between the desk —<br />her distended tummy</span><br /><br />Thank God for our Government for endorsing this new policy. The girls can now sit their exams even if they are pregnant!<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />she tells a female teacher<br />that she’s older than her —<br />student mother<br /></span><br />Our school also broke the record among community schools in 2009 for allowing two student mothers to study and sit their KCSE exams. The most outstanding was Miss E, who had been forcibly married off at the age of 16, due to poverty in their family. She had with much difficulty given birth to two children by the time we caught up with her in her matrimony. With the help of the authorities, we managed to extricate her from the abusive marriage. She joined our centre in 2007 and successfully sat for her KCSE exams in 2009. She had dropped out in Form 2. She had come to the centre with a broken heart, body and brain, as well as spirit, but she left the centre a healed, pretty girl in specs. She was very close to my wife.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />sharing SMSes<br />from her ex-husband—<br />student mother</span><br /><br />Generally, our students are the most beautiful-looking in the whole slum. With their resplendent uniforms and proud looks and posture, they usually attract so many others to the school. But underneath these beautiful faces and uniforms, are resilient spirits who have fought all forms of social and economic evils: drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, abject poverty, sex abuse and molestation, domestic violence and child labour. The year 2009 was also extraordinary because we had admitted the two students living with HIV/AIDS.<br /><br />18:10 hours: At the market stall, I struggled undecidedly with Valentine’s cards and gifts to buy for my date. The cards and gifts, although all in red, differed in size, decorations and material and hence the variation in prices. In the background, ballads, vehicle honks and the usual market din and the hawkers’ monotonous sales slogans and stories blared on. I finally settled for a small but cute Valentine’s gift for Miss L. It was a nicely woven traditional basket made from wild date palm reeds. It had a huge fully bloomed red plastic rose at the centre with red ribbons fluttering all around the red rose and the basket. There was a simple love message scribbled on a rectangular paper glued to the side of the basket:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">To Someone very SPECIAL,<br />On this Valentine :<br />I LOVE YOU!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyI4z_kCvo9Nupeh_x1O_lTYo4whuPFGjVV6_eFuTYBW9n94RBUNI_BU7azogDOX1sAZLpmSxCo1BaSlGWRAH8Mn0E-U_pgWGmC0UfOO-DMwmyZB2OkPczjxvkv2pIlNAi1P5ycA/s1600/Valentine+Kenya+04.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyI4z_kCvo9Nupeh_x1O_lTYo4whuPFGjVV6_eFuTYBW9n94RBUNI_BU7azogDOX1sAZLpmSxCo1BaSlGWRAH8Mn0E-U_pgWGmC0UfOO-DMwmyZB2OkPczjxvkv2pIlNAi1P5ycA/s400/Valentine+Kenya+04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710671455095987842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thinking of you : Valentine’s chocolates</span><br /><br />18:30 Hours: It was getting dark and twilight was fading into night, but colourful lights kept shooting into life from all buildings around, thus brightening the night. Night clubs, pubs and all entertainment joints were Valentine red in lighting and decoration.<br /><br />I arrived at Miss L’s flat and knocked on the door. It was a high-rise building with several other tenants in it. As I stood outside her door waiting for it to be opened, I noticed that it was smeared with several stickers, all carrying HIV/AIDS messages. But the most outstanding sticker was the one with the President holding hands in a tight circle with people of all ages, classes and religions. And the poignant message on it was:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">“Tuungane<br />Tuangamize<br />UKIMWI!”<br /><br />“Let us unite</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br />to eradicate<br />HIV/AIDS!”</span><br /><br />I read this message over and over again as I waited for the door to be opened. Soon there was a click and the door opened. And before me, a beautifully dressed lady in jeans trousers, open shoes and red T-shirt, stood before me in the light-flooded sitting room, smiling sweetly, but her eyes were sad and lonely. That was Miss L. She had done a lot for the community — rescuing girls and women who suffered from HIV/AIDS stigmatization and discrimination. Our school had formed a network with her organization for the same reason; she had been the first girl in this part of Nairobi to publicly declare her HIV status.<br /><br />I held the gift out to her and watched as pleasant shock and surprise engulfed her; she pouted the surprise. I silenced her with a hearty embrace and two pecks on both cheeks. The light that sparkled in her dark lonely eyes as she whispered:<br /><br />“Do you mean you love me this much?” made my Valentine.<br />“Yes,” I said, “You deserve much much more. You have made a difference in so many lives here.” We released each other. “But I’m afraid I won’t stay. I’m taking my wife out to Nyama Villa and we have a family party later to-night.”<br />“I’m so grateful you thought of me, Pat. You’ve made my Valentine.”<br />“Don’t mention it”, I said and kissed her Happy Valentine.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine’s date<br />with a HIV/AIDS person--<br />the radiance in her eyes<br /><br />a red night</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br />of eating chicken and dancing jazz —<br />dating my wife<br /><br />church flower garden --</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br />two little girls exchanging<br />red hibiscus flowers</span><br /><br />~ Haibun and photo © Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">St Valentine’s Day --<br />today the computer<br />is my only love<br /><br />St Valentine’s Day --<br />all the church finery<br />for a wedding<br /><br />St Valentine’s Day --<br />the church warden mourns<br />his late wife<br /><br />Valentine’s Day --<br />a lovers’ quarrel going<br />round and round my head<br /><br /><br />Valentine's Day --<br />who may be thinking of me<br />right now?</span><br /><br />~ Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjioQeXdC-aaY1xL2-V4GprRm6_XyMGs7nbA6gEy96zgDslT2Xm4YkGvMP7yczp0Wi7OjoY44gU_JNvWSLpmjqpXxavkRZ8iKoES9Q5N9mauVxjH9H_bPj2GsrmdfgTIXdgGQR2Nw/s1600/086+kitkat+01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjioQeXdC-aaY1xL2-V4GprRm6_XyMGs7nbA6gEy96zgDslT2Xm4YkGvMP7yczp0Wi7OjoY44gU_JNvWSLpmjqpXxavkRZ8iKoES9Q5N9mauVxjH9H_bPj2GsrmdfgTIXdgGQR2Nw/s400/086+kitkat+01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710695258168057346" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">from Japan, with KitKat chocolate</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine's Day -<br />I send you a sweet<br />postcard</span><br /><br />~ Gabi Greve<br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine's day --<br />a girl's red tongue licks<br />a red ice cream</span><br /><br />~ Dennis Wright<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">red flowers --<br />the leftovers colour<br />the market</span><br /><br />~ Peninah Wanjiru<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine's day --<br />she covers her neck<br />with a red scarf</span><br /><br />~ Ezekiel Mbira<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sudden odour --<br />I stare at the roses<br />in the market</span><br /><br />~ Meg Ndinda<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOv8cBdHPgYXbvrswwQhKdf0WxW36LdeS6RCgynSDJF5lRmoGKz4xZ9KX6hZnDztab0_zOdgz_EvEtVybuZbzTiOlYkcCt5dS-fNyp4y7lOlRpO62yU5pR46KUdW-czK1WbTs0Ow/s1600/Valentine+Kenya+05.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOv8cBdHPgYXbvrswwQhKdf0WxW36LdeS6RCgynSDJF5lRmoGKz4xZ9KX6hZnDztab0_zOdgz_EvEtVybuZbzTiOlYkcCt5dS-fNyp4y7lOlRpO62yU5pR46KUdW-czK1WbTs0Ow/s400/Valentine+Kenya+05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710691162689379842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">A traditional reed basket full of Valentine’s Day gifts</span><br />Photo © Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine --<br />a little girl undusts<br />her fallen flowers<br /><br />red decorations<br />on the pear vendor’s wheelbarrow --<br />Valentine’ Day</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />youthless church<br />for the morning service --<br />Valentine’s Day</span><br /><br />~ Hussein Haji<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />a couple kiss<br />across the bus station--<br />Valentine’s day</span><br /><br />~ Kelvin Mukoselo<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Soweto market --<br />loudspeakers advertise<br />Valentine products<br /><br />Valentine’s morning --<br />vendors arrange flowers<br />in the wheelbarrow<br /><br />Valentine’s day --<br />a flower hawker whistles<br />from door to door</span><br /><br />~ Caleb Mutua<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Valentine’s card --<br />some sweet melody plays<br />in the pub<br /><br />a chocolate pack<br />in heart-printed wrappers --<br />Valentine’s gift<br /><br />Valentine’s Day --<br />bouquets of red roses<br />displayed in the shops</span><br /><br />~ Gladys Kathini<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Valentine's Day --<br />people in red clothes on their way<br />carrying flowers</span><br /><br />~ Samuel Ndung'u<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">in a red suit<br />a man carrying flowers --<br />language of love</span><br /><br />~ Raymond Otieno<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">stout lady<br />clutching red roses<br />clad in red<br /><br />twenty bob each!<br />shouts a jovial hawker --<br />red bouquets</span><br /><br />~ Catherine Njeri Maina<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />people in red<br />laughing and cheering in the pub --<br />Valentine’s night</span><br /><br />~Walter Otieno<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwu0Gg0WgVGl9KlEcap6So3KebrFo77aKuWrJ-9SwUNljO7_MnH5y3MBwpwzl0YFcdP4mJytr7Sxn7lt83p3JZbddFzVXNSN54IAdTOBFd0rGY3EXfvzYd3ZXWlicAVU0-qJ37Qw/s1600/Valentine+Kenya+06.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwu0Gg0WgVGl9KlEcap6So3KebrFo77aKuWrJ-9SwUNljO7_MnH5y3MBwpwzl0YFcdP4mJytr7Sxn7lt83p3JZbddFzVXNSN54IAdTOBFd0rGY3EXfvzYd3ZXWlicAVU0-qJ37Qw/s400/Valentine+Kenya+06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710691725123900130" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Teddy bears for a Valentine!</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Patrick Wafula</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">waiters in red<br />serving red wine --<br />Valentine's Day<br /><br />couples in red<br />cluster around flower stalls --<br />red twilight<br /><br />a couple quarrelling<br />over Valentine SMSes --<br />sulky faces</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">form one students<br />asking the English teacher --<br />what is Valentine<br /><br />Muthurwa --<br />hawkers of Valentine’s gifts<br />block the pathways</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Luthuli Avenue --<br />broken roses scattered<br />at zebra crossings<br /><br />Valentine’s Eve --<br />the shoe vendor's stall<br />gradually turns red</span><br /><br />~ Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentines-day-2012.html">WKD : Valentine's Day 2012 </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . 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BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Smell of urine<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Hot dry season<br />***** Category: Humanity</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br />The smell of urine can qualify as a hot dry season kigo since this season, between December and March, makes the smell more concentrated, hence the very pervasive pungent smell.<br /><br />There is a notorious urine spot in Nairobi's otherwise impeccable city centre. It is along Moi Avenue in the flowerbeds, particularly behind the lone wild palm tree. There is a zebra crossing right there and a bus park for Route 34 before the flowerbeds. Now, sometimes when the buses are so closely parked, the urinating goes on even in broad daylight between or behind the buses. But most of the polluters are the nocturnal revellers who come of the nightclubs such as Florida 2000, Samba and several others along the street.<br /><br />Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWL_3goY69Pag4nrHTZK2kWCo_vPx5oMHhE5Wi7NzzVWdqS1gHGzv23LFrrJvoYzTu1nhYw2SAR3S5hyphenhyphen_eM8ny6Gd4LlWRlmvTNRVrBMrmtEHBiu_axCiiiVMe7K1tcS3aVBQ-Q/s1600/kenya+avenue.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWL_3goY69Pag4nrHTZK2kWCo_vPx5oMHhE5Wi7NzzVWdqS1gHGzv23LFrrJvoYzTu1nhYw2SAR3S5hyphenhyphen_eM8ny6Gd4LlWRlmvTNRVrBMrmtEHBiu_axCiiiVMe7K1tcS3aVBQ-Q/s400/kenya+avenue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707307275458917442" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Haile Selassie Avenue with its<br />bougainvillea hedge running down the centre</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br />Urine smell should only be used as a kigo under certain circumstances, that is when it emanates from places where we do not normally expect it, but which at times are used by dissenting pedestrians or nocturnal city revellers. Due to too much heat at this time of year, its components tend to dry, leaving a concentrated pungent smell to roam the air. <br />When the rains set in, they will wash the urine along with its torrents, hence we expect little of that bad smell.<br /><br />Andrew Otinga<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br />In Nairobi city centre during the peak of the hot dry season, the smell of urine can hit the pedestrian in places where this does not normally happen. This is of course due to the constantly dry weather. All those hidden corners that have been used secretly by men to urinate in, have not been washed clean by the rain, and so, the smell develops and hits the nostrils.<br /><br />And so, the "smell of urine" can be a kigo for the hot dry season.<br /><br />It is important to note though that, as the great majority of Kenyans use pit latrines, it is almost impossible, at any time of year, to eliminate the smell of urine from those parts of the city and the country where pit latrines are in use, but not ventilated and kept entirely clean.<br /><br />Even so, the smell of urine is stronger, more frequent, more present, in the hot dry season. The kigo focuses on just the smell -- especially if this smell is found in places that one would not normally expect to smell of urine...<br /><br />Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><br />The smell of urine seems to be a <span style="font-weight:bold;">topic</span> in other parts of the world.<br /><br />.................................................................................<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/12/pissing-shooben.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Pissing (shooben 小便) . </span> </a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">市中は物のにほひや夏の月</span><br />ichinaka wa mono no nioi ya natsu no tsuki<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Throughout the town<br />above the welter of smelly things<br />the summer moon </span><br />Bonchoo, Tr. Miner<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">how hot it is, how hot it is<br />says a voice at every house gate </span><br />Basho, Tr. Miner<br /><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kigohotline/message/3216">Discussion by Larry Bole </a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines (VIP Latrines) </span></span><br />do not smell. They have a small pipe or funnel taking the odours from the pit, so that this smells perfectly clean provided it is kept clean by the owner.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAp7oKdM8zuEshpC2W1kRLfYVPSXINgVhdV-tg2p_v1Ha7uOKQUzwg5u5fxgr09hPm6NG8MWsfBFQS-kgUZsDETjCeehpWzeAf8ucH5wT3WeDGanYPBhfQCMcq1KljJ2XREvZNQ/s1600/kenya+vip+latrine.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAp7oKdM8zuEshpC2W1kRLfYVPSXINgVhdV-tg2p_v1Ha7uOKQUzwg5u5fxgr09hPm6NG8MWsfBFQS-kgUZsDETjCeehpWzeAf8ucH5wT3WeDGanYPBhfQCMcq1KljJ2XREvZNQ/s400/kenya+vip+latrine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707395166582457250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Freshly built VIP Latrine</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">city centre --<br />the smell of urine<br />meets my nose</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/4100935881/sizes/l/in/photostream/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveQaC5HnPI_OrQ7qnnybr3JX2dx1QXZYpXyzvaBmNttL3BWTmtRm8A7N625ahXAFq-74lpYMyi_MbB9HMeEX8P6VpT-Ueapj-1IAoxYR39TctbnB_sZZ_pIeA6db9PKXWniQ0bw/s400/kenys+city+street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707308051854445026" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Busy city centre, Nairobi</span><br /><br />Haiku and photo © Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">blocked urinal --<br />he holds his nose<br />firmly</span><br /><br />Sylvester Mutuku<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">MORE</span><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/msearch?query=urinal&submit=Search&charset=utf-8">- Kenya Haiku with Urinal - </a><br /><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/msearch?query=urine&submit=Search&charset=utf-8">- Kenya Haiku with Urine - </a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/12/pissing-shooben.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Pissing (shooben 小便) . </span> </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-90359796809810708272012-02-07T20:39:00.000-08:002012-02-07T21:36:15.296-08:00Thorn tree<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Thorn tree, Naivasha Thorn, Fever Tree<br />Acacia xanthophloea (scientific),<br />mgunga (Swahili)<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya and<br />Tanzania southwards to Swaziland<br /><br />***** Season: Long rains, end of cold dry season (flower)<br /> Short rains (fresh leaves)<br /> Hot dry season (pods)<br /><br />***** Category: Plant </strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br />The <span style="font-size:130%;">Naivasha Thorn </span>(also commonly known as a thorn tree) is the most visible and most spectacular of Kenya’s many acacias, due to its bright yellow bark. The fact that it is common in Nairobi makes it a good kigo for Kenya haijin.<br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><br />There are 42 indigenous species of Acacia distributed throughout Kenya. Their identification as members of the Acacia family is readily made because of the presence of spines. Recognition of individual species is much more difficult, many of them requiring close examination of the flowers and leaves in a botanical laboratory.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_91IbWt0vnenVIa8gHiYlG7ZQ1o4vT0k0lQJuqnaTJi29pKu91RKeNKqaLqi24IuRzBKPbppwQ2A3vSq-iAyRbNLAbmnjJcXX-pK9G8aGVY9hlNUplJxWTIPBlzlUIDrSQ9oqQ/s1600/acacia+01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_91IbWt0vnenVIa8gHiYlG7ZQ1o4vT0k0lQJuqnaTJi29pKu91RKeNKqaLqi24IuRzBKPbppwQ2A3vSq-iAyRbNLAbmnjJcXX-pK9G8aGVY9hlNUplJxWTIPBlzlUIDrSQ9oqQ/s400/acacia+01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706620542849547634" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">A thorn tree branch</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br />The Naivasha Thorn is a flat-topped tree with a yellow powdery bark. The whitish straight spines are about 4 cm long. Commonly found beside streams and lakes in the Rift Valley, especially at Lakes Naivasha and Nakuru.<br /><br />Early travellers camping near these waters associated the tree with their going down with fever, hence the name Fever Tree. In fact, their illness was due to malaria transmitted by mosquitoes which breed on the edges of the lakes.<br /><br />Acacia trees have a great variety of uses, besides being ornamental. Between them, they provide shade, food for goats, wood-fuel, river-bank stabilisation, fence posts, fix nitrogen as they drop their nutrient-rich leaves at the beginning of the rainy season, durable building material because of their resin content, hardwood suitable for carving, and tannin for the leather industry.<br /><br />~ John Karmali, The Beautiful Plants of Kenya, 1993<br /><br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><br />A tall, majestic tree, with wide, rounded, obliquely spreading crown, up to 25 m high (very old trees can reach up to 33 m if conditions are favourable). It grows at altitudes of 700 to 2,100 m. Commonly found along river banks, in seasonally flooded areas adjacent to rivers, on the margins of lakes and pans and low-lying areas where underground water is available. Often gregarious and at times forms close woodland.<br /><br />Flowers creamish white or yellowish white with pinkish red corollas. Many species of birds favour this tree for nesting, especially weaver birds.<br /><br />~ Najma Dharani<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Field Guide to the Acacias of East Africa, 2006.</span><br /><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9l-F6Ah7umglxZBSTm_yU0fI3WyIgDXJWDUZy0QRXTv9VtEjjM-DZUOUUnJyDhHEJr_1faMuftS0WEYHKanBFi4d0I8eKhZvUDGtYZih8dyvS5yQvPdT2YpQUmADw3Fpu3UpkvQ/s1600/acacia+02.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9l-F6Ah7umglxZBSTm_yU0fI3WyIgDXJWDUZy0QRXTv9VtEjjM-DZUOUUnJyDhHEJr_1faMuftS0WEYHKanBFi4d0I8eKhZvUDGtYZih8dyvS5yQvPdT2YpQUmADw3Fpu3UpkvQ/s400/acacia+02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706620913048547778" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Weaver bird weaving its nest</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.com/2009/05/acacia-tree.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Acacia Tree - KIGO . </span> </a><br /><br />Australia, Japan, Yemen<br /><br />akashia アカシア<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">acacia blossoms<br />whip welts on my legs<br />no longer visible<br /><br />acacia tree<br />our old hut hidden<br />by the road<br /></span><br />~ Ella Wagemakers, Holland<br /><br /><br />.................................................................................<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />a cloud of wild bees<br />all around the courtyard --<br />acacia blossoms</span><br /><br />~ Vasile Moldovan, Romania<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Thorn Tree Café</span></span><br /><br />An open-air pavement brasserie / bistro-style café with an excellent patisserie range. The historic cafe guards the Sarova Stanley Hotel's entrance and has the world-famous Messenger - an acacia xanthophloea, whose message-board has formed the centrepiece of the legendary Thorn Tree Café since 1959.<br /><br />Although the café is now on its third acacia, the messages keep flowing from the café and the atmosphere of Africa's best known meeting place is still as warm and welcoming as it was in those early days.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.sarovahotels.com/stanley/restaurants_bars.htm</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsh6FD2nBfrsHxwpKNpNKS0wtclJsKUPuI6Z-QML43_Xep_M-dd3-x8YqDs7Y2SVvs9nyYDINZ_odZO4LdgcvXB1XeJNP3bfoWyXmnDFoNZS8lMOlpz7V6PzeQ1JhaHbWynJfNw/s1600/acacia+03.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsh6FD2nBfrsHxwpKNpNKS0wtclJsKUPuI6Z-QML43_Xep_M-dd3-x8YqDs7Y2SVvs9nyYDINZ_odZO4LdgcvXB1XeJNP3bfoWyXmnDFoNZS8lMOlpz7V6PzeQ1JhaHbWynJfNw/s400/acacia+03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706621657730057106" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">A message from Ireland on the Thorn Tree Café message board</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">on a thorn tree<br />one marabou stork...<br />gazing</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Naivasha --<br />surrounded by Naivasha thorns<br />in bloom<br /><br />hazy morning --<br />thorn tree flowers sprinkled<br />round the bus stop<br /><br />thorn tree --<br />three hens rest in its shade<br />guarded by the cock</span><br /><br />~ Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">January breeze --<br />an acacia leaf floating<br />in my tea<br /><br />dusty wind --<br />a flowering acacia<br />whispers</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKKh78m8fpUzqBLxqsJWF_FwFGDwNUlIODifElW9ksPx9XKT8-FTEsrejTe1TDQVlYZqal_wEb1Ff19wyVq9EZGv97Lo4GlOIy6th-26Y0U-7o9efk8IqDExs2cHMjv-uflNujw/s1600/acacia+04.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKKh78m8fpUzqBLxqsJWF_FwFGDwNUlIODifElW9ksPx9XKT8-FTEsrejTe1TDQVlYZqal_wEb1Ff19wyVq9EZGv97Lo4GlOIy6th-26Y0U-7o9efk8IqDExs2cHMjv-uflNujw/s400/acacia+04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706623011243240690" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Flowering thorn tree</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">acacia flowers fall<br />on the dusty bench --<br />hot wind</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">weaverbirds' nests<br />swinging on an acacia-<br />dusty wind<br /><br />thorny acacia<br />stand guard over the grassland—<br />browsing Maasai cattle<br /><br />acacia blooms<br />gently fall on my head --<br />evening breeze</span><br /><br />~ Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sunrise --<br />the leaves of acacia<br />turn orange yellow<br /><br />bubbling stream --<br />an acacia leaf floats<br />downstream<br /><br />a weaver bird resting<br />on a swinging acacia branch --<br />morning drizzle</span><br /><br />~ Stephen Macharia<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">flowering acacia --<br />its yellow flowers cover<br />our rusty roof</span><br /><br />~ James Bundi<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJeuy6b7yEM-EYnfR2d9ILVCZEAdF_zWau64H9_prVSZkMCPOxYD34nPkKsRGMzeq5YfZuIpS-sVZVWMghFTqNKr4JnsunChVs3xfOInPQ1L_gh8jASespWw-7Ps2sOAwgWGg9w/s1600/acacia+05.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJeuy6b7yEM-EYnfR2d9ILVCZEAdF_zWau64H9_prVSZkMCPOxYD34nPkKsRGMzeq5YfZuIpS-sVZVWMghFTqNKr4JnsunChVs3xfOInPQ1L_gh8jASespWw-7Ps2sOAwgWGg9w/s400/acacia+05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706623556738894562" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The beautiful yellow bark of the Naivasha thorn</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">queueing for lunch -<br />an acacia leaf drops<br />on my clean plate</span><br /><br />~ Isaac Ndirangu<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">wet soil --<br />acacia trees gradually<br />regaining leaves</span><br /><br />~ Stanley Mutinda<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">dusty hot wind --<br />the acacia bends sharply<br />in a gust</span><br /><br />~ Rodgers Nzomo<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sunny evening —<br />the acacia tree still<br />surviving</span><br /><br />~ Sammy Nzilili<br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />the bird swings<br />as it weaves its nest...<br />fleshy acacia</span><br /><br />~ Anthony Njoroge<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2009/07/weaver-bird.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Weaver bird, weaverbird . </span> </a><br /><br />***** ***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/12/marabou-storks.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Marabou storks . </span> </a><br /><br />***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/06/rift-valley.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Rift Valley . </span> </a><br /><br />***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2010/12/umbrella-tree.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Umbrella tree / Schefflera actinophylla . </span> </a><br />Umbrella tree (Acacia tortilis)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-24767269121075513222012-02-02T22:24:00.001-08:002012-02-05T12:55:02.529-08:00Cocks outing<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Cocks outing - Report<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COCKS’ HAIKU CLUB OUTING CITY PARK, NAIROBI</span></span><br />28 JANUARY 2012<br /><br />The Cocks’ Haiku Club had its first outing and first official meeting at City Park, Nairobi, on 28 January 2012. The outing was the result of a recommendation made by the patron, Caleb Mutua, to the Kenya Saijiki Moderator. Instead of providing an internet fee, available funds should be used towards the group’s outing to a local park or other place the group might deem suitable for an outing.<br /><br />For the first of such outings-cum-meetings, the group decided to visit City Park. Among other items, the group planned to assess their progress in the Kenya Saijiki forum, play games and pursue other activities that would bring them together and strengthen the mutual bond in the group, and to have a haiku walk later in the afternoon.<br /><br />The Cocks met at the Tom Mboya Statue near the Kenya National Archives at 9:00 hrs in the morning. A photo session followed for about 20 minutes, while waiting for everyone to arrive.<br />The group then proceeded to City Park, which they reached at around 10:00 hrs. They looked for some shade, spread a lesso on the ground and settled down for their meeting.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgletvXuLmTcelTUxLn8WtKEBjALqYDVsK0lJSCQXW4J2BtcWzH3gqPuH9wQHbkfJCE54sk6rHtiak98d-pSNvPybhjPzefAgiU38w1qErHycTJwA-4ty9JNmtlUgnHjl04E1YIrQ/s1600/caleb+cock+04.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgletvXuLmTcelTUxLn8WtKEBjALqYDVsK0lJSCQXW4J2BtcWzH3gqPuH9wQHbkfJCE54sk6rHtiak98d-pSNvPybhjPzefAgiU38w1qErHycTJwA-4ty9JNmtlUgnHjl04E1YIrQ/s400/caleb+cock+04.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705527751584010770" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Cocks arriving at City Park</span><br /><br />The following were the group members present :<br /><br />1. Kelvin Mukoselo<br />2. Khadija Rajab<br />3. Catherine Njeri Maina<br />4. Barack Elung’ata<br />5. James Bundi<br />6. Caleb Mutua<br />7. Martin Kamau (new member)<br />Absent with apology<br />1. Winslause Yamame (up-country)<br />2. Hussein Hadji (working)<br />3. Beryl Achieng (working)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introductions</span></span><br />The meeting started with introductions and icebreakers. Each group member told the others their name, when they had started writing haiku, when they had graduated from secondary school, what they are currently doing and what motivates them to write haiku.<br /><br />Khadija Rajab hit with vitality and enthusiasm. She entertained the group with jokes and energizers she had learnt from her acting group, Mabingwa Production. She told the group that her current job, Cyber Café attendant, really kept her busy. She also confessed that she lacks motivation to write haiku. She said she was happy to be there and she hoped that after today, she would be able to actively participate in Kenya Saijiki and Cock’s activities. After she had finished, she invited Kelvin Mukoselo to introduce himself.<br /><br />Kelvin Mukoselo was brief. He said that he is currently looking for a job and even though his contribution to Kenya Saijiki is inconsistent, he has always enjoyed reading what other haijin have written.<br /><br />Barrack Elung’ata was next. First the group sought to know where the name Master Bee came from and after a comical explanation he said that he was currently staying in Kangemi, and that he is learning how to cut keys and repair padlocks. The group appreciated his efforts to remain active in Kenya Saijiki. He invited James Bundi to introduce himself.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9djDCT9TOW6UMBhh2UIV8qB4Hjo67f_HrQAdH6NUXIQkFLBz_L0zwhW5ejsLtZDOXMdwd_vLNMQXRW7SDmIhSsxhOTsO_Kh9KeZEDSLcwbrWnMLsm0yFUEcFEWAidyINdQ6T8Q/s1600/caleb+cock+02.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9djDCT9TOW6UMBhh2UIV8qB4Hjo67f_HrQAdH6NUXIQkFLBz_L0zwhW5ejsLtZDOXMdwd_vLNMQXRW7SDmIhSsxhOTsO_Kh9KeZEDSLcwbrWnMLsm0yFUEcFEWAidyINdQ6T8Q/s400/caleb+cock+02.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705528049202089858" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Barrack Elung'ata introduces himself</span><br /><br />James jokingly said that he was fresh from high school and waiting for his results. He is currently the caretaker in their apartment. The group formally welcomed him and appreciated his efforts to stay active in Kenya Saijiki.<br /><br />Martin Kamau was next on stage. He is a former Bahati Secondary School student and was a member of the Bamboochas Haiku Club until 2007, when he finished school. He is currently training to be a security guard at a local college in Nairobi. The group welcomed him to the group. He then invited his niece, Catherine Njeri Maina to the stage.<br /><br />Catherine thanked her uncle and the group in general for the day and said she was so happy that finally the Cocks had managed to meet. She apologised for her tired looks, saying that she had been working all night. The group appreciated her efforts to avail herself in the meeting and her consistent participation in the forum.<br /><br />Finally, Caleb Mutua took to the stage to introduce himself and to welcome the group to their first meeting. He started by thanking all the group members who were able to make it today and also thanked those members who were absent with apologies. He shared with the Cocks a congratulatory message from the Kenya Saijiki Moderator, Isabelle Prondzynski, who had expressed her appreciation for the Club’s efforts in the forum and her good wishes for the day’s activities.<br /><br />He also thanked the members for occasionally finding time to write haiku and to respond to what other haijin had written. He then asked the group members if they thought the group was “visible” in Kenya Saijiki. The members agreed that it was time for the Cocks to be recognized in the forum. He then led the group into a discussion on what could be done to revitalise the group and its members. He talked about how haiku had changed his life for the better and motivated the other haijin to always include in their CVs and interviews that they are poets and they are passionate about conserving the environment.<br /><br />He told the group that haiku has brought them together and they could seize that opportunity to do many things as Cocks. He was happy that each member of the group was doing something and urged the group members to strengthen their friendship bonds with each other. He also shared with the Cocks his idea of founding a Haiku Society of Kenya and promised to keep them updated on progress. He closed the meeting by acknowledging the moral and financial support that Kenya Saijiki had continued to give the Cocks.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Environmental Conservation and Games</span></span><br />The next agenda item was games. The group divided into two halves and started to collect plastic bags in the park. The idea was to use littered plastic bags and sweet wraps to make two balls.<br /><br />At the end of 30 minutes, the group had two balls. They played among other games, football, volleyball and a game commonly known as “kati.” Playing “kati” is like playing frisbee except that it is played by three people at a time and a ball is thrown instead of a concave plastic disk. Two players stand 20 or 30 meters apart trying to aim a small ball, which is normally the size of a tennis ball, to the player in the middle.<br /><br />The player in the middle is supposed to catch the ball. If the ball hits him or her and falls down, they give the opportunity to another player. If the middle player manages to catch the ball then he or she earns points. This is regarded as a girls’ game and it was real fun seeing young men play it too.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lunchbreak</span></span><br />At exactly 13.00 hrs and after their strenuous games, the Cocks were starving. They packed up and went to the big fruit and vegetable market at the entrance of City Park for lunch. Having found a stall selling hot food, most took rice served with beans, sukuma wiki, cabbages and potatoes, while a few decided to have ugali served with beans, sukuma wiki, cabbages and potatoes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_KJF8MA2GfncdIkJj54Rs_5f7APpjD2cqk1WT3uS3SHGN9zXO1scC9Pmj4wLZA-bZSb77yT_QZi8CDtcgccSYd_uQla5w-5dIndIMIfYC-uS8uX-1zqkeLBW98JxZIEqJIEiKMg/s1600/caleb+cock+03.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_KJF8MA2GfncdIkJj54Rs_5f7APpjD2cqk1WT3uS3SHGN9zXO1scC9Pmj4wLZA-bZSb77yT_QZi8CDtcgccSYd_uQla5w-5dIndIMIfYC-uS8uX-1zqkeLBW98JxZIEqJIEiKMg/s400/caleb+cock+03.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705528294665916306" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The Hawkers' Market with its mouth-watering offerings</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Haiku walk</span></span><br />After lunch, the Cocks returned to the park and enjoyed some ice creams before the ginkoo (haiku walk) began.<br /><br />Their Patron asked them to remain vigilant and to avoid secluded paths to the interior of the park because this area was notorious for thugs who terrorized people and disappeared in the trees.<br /><br />Each person was to write at least two haiku and they were all to meet again at exactly 15.00 hrs.<br />The following are the haiku written during the walk :<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">lunch break --<br />a City Park hawker<br />selling ice cream<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAogG0ygAEPHSwsy354y7qK74BUIXo8swTaZmleQSMt6sYLETYSF4GhbuB0dk3qC9pWm2mbYHuf526zY_cYCZYVfCIr8VZn3985YXFKJTvk9PqO1ZdVLdKpE0ce_6J_Z8KwcqOA/s1600/cocks+icecream.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAogG0ygAEPHSwsy354y7qK74BUIXo8swTaZmleQSMt6sYLETYSF4GhbuB0dk3qC9pWm2mbYHuf526zY_cYCZYVfCIr8VZn3985YXFKJTvk9PqO1ZdVLdKpE0ce_6J_Z8KwcqOA/s400/cocks+icecream.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705528726103873746" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Ice cream for all before the ginkoo</span><br /><br /><br />lunch break --<br />a man feeds a monkey<br />off his shoulder</span><br /><br />~ Catherine Njeri Maina<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">holding tight --<br />a monkey carries its young one<br />on the lawn<br /><br />playing<br />under a thick tree shadow --<br />City Park forest</span><br /><br />~ James Bundi<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">City Park Market --<br />a monkey runs away<br />with mango pellets<br /><br />City Park --<br />a chattering monkey makes others<br />jump on trees</span><br /><br />~ Barrack Elung’ata<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">January prayers --<br />they hold hands<br />in City Park bushes<br /><br />fun day --<br />laugher and screams<br />in City Park bushes</span><br /><br />~ Martin Kamau<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyZRo_YN-YYY8ImlPYqRvMzwRhToNW06Xfautx4i8af-wI15ksDmD8mvLC0lx-KPfFMOFot5Z-IPxS6o_xIV2rthnD17ERH-O7n3a-3a245o0T_AAg-RgLp9JjWFQbVbE9CZEZVg/s1600/caleb+cock+01.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyZRo_YN-YYY8ImlPYqRvMzwRhToNW06Xfautx4i8af-wI15ksDmD8mvLC0lx-KPfFMOFot5Z-IPxS6o_xIV2rthnD17ERH-O7n3a-3a245o0T_AAg-RgLp9JjWFQbVbE9CZEZVg/s400/caleb+cock+01.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705528985019080082" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">missing the catch --<br />a monkey jumping from a tree<br />falls down<br /><br />City Park monkeys<br />scratching one another—<br />bush life</span><br /><br />~ Khadijah Rajab<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">January --<br />two monkeys swing<br />on a loose jacaranda branch<br /><br />City Park --<br />a father feeds a monkey<br />atop his head </span><br /><br />~ Caleb Mutua<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">under a tree….<br />monkeys scratching<br />each other’s back<br /><br />silent park…<br />a man kneels down<br />to pray </span><br /><br />~ Kelvin Mukoselo<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommendations and conclusions</span></span><br /><br />1. A few members suggested that the group might change its name to a more gender sensitive one.<br /><br />2. All members recommended that the group start a Google Group that will allow them keep in touch through instant free SMS notifications and Google Docs that allows group discussions and comments when working on a document<br /><br />3. The group will also allow members to post job opportunities for the benefit of the others.<br /><br />4. Members recommended that the group hold many more meetings to motivate and encourage each other<br /><br />5. The group pledged to do more voluntary work in hospitals and schools in the effort to spread haiku and give back something to society.<br /><br />6. Members recommended they invite friends with a passion for poetry whom they have met in colleges or in their work places to the group.<br /><br />7. The group concluded to be more active in Kenya Saijiki.<br /><br />8. The group concluded to discuss the issue of changing the group’s name with the other members before deciding.<br /><br /><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Report written and compiled by<br />Cocks’ Haiku Club Patron, Caleb Mutua,<br />University of Nairobi, School of Journalism and Media Studies.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />© Cocks Haiku Club</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/kenya-haiku-clubs.html">- The Haiku Clubs of Nairobi - </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-34512684477360568372012-01-28T20:15:00.000-08:002012-01-28T20:22:17.383-08:00New Year Resolutions<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>New Year Resolutions<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Hot and dry season<br />***** Category: Humanity</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >New Year's resolution</span><br /><br />The Shiki Kukai January 2012<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/shikikukaitemporaryarchives/home/january-2012-kukai">source : shikikukai</a> <br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------<br />5 Points<br />--------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">church service --<br />the thief testifies<br />he is born again</span><br /><br />~ Brian Mulando<br /><br />----------------------------<br />4 Points<br />----------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">staff meeting --<br />exchanging new year's<br />resolutions</span><br /><br />~ Caxton Okoth<br /><br />------------------------<br />3 Points<br />------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">father dusts<br />his old torn Bible from the shelf --<br />new year's resolve</span><br /><br />~ Stephen Macharia<br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Other selected entries<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">new year's resolve --<br />he burns all cigarettes<br />to chew only mint</span><br /><br />~ Isaac Ndirangu<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">no more lateness --<br />my misset alarm clock<br />rings at 3am</span><br /><br />~ Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">renewing my faith --<br />memorizing the Catechism<br />again</span><br /><br />~ Consolata Akoth<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">no more sugar --<br />I salivate at cookies<br />in the supermarket</span><br /><br />~ Alex Wanambisi<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">new year's testimony --<br />one of the brethren declares<br />he is born again</span><br /><br />~ Eric Mwange<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">he takes a puff<br />and throws the cigar --<br />last smoke</span><br /><br />~ Cecilia Wambui<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a final gaze<br />at the liquor store --<br />quitting drinker</span><br /><br />~ Brian Etole<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">new resolution --<br />a student swears<br />to be punctual</span><br /><br />~ Elijah Juma<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html">WKD : the New Year </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-1105833411085431952012-01-01T15:52:00.000-08:002012-02-04T18:18:30.503-08:00January<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>January<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Hot and dry season<br />***** Category: Season</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br /><strong>For the worldwide use of January as a kigo<br />please read here:</strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/10/january.html">WKD - January (ichigatsu) </a></span><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"January" or "February" as kigo is the hot dry season </span><br />-- the heat, the dryness, the beginning of the year, the beginning of the academic<br />year, the payment of school fees, the period after Christmas, the lack of money of that time of year, and much more.<br /><br />Isabelle Prondzynski <br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">January noon<br />muezzin's call to prayer<br />rises and floats<br /></span><br />That was in the city centre today -- a most beautiful call, which seemed to evaporate into the noontime heat and spread all over the city.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">half moon and sun</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">both in january sky</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">its minarets</span><br /><br />All day, I had been attracted by the half-moon, etched into the blue sky, while the sun too was shining. And when our bus this evening passed the lovely wedding-cake style mosque, just outside the city centre of Nairobi, its pretty onion-domed minarets stretching up from the earth seemed to match the sun and moon beaming down from the sky.<br /><br />Isabelle Prondzynski <br /><strong>(Nairobi, Kenya)</strong><br /><br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">January dust--<br />more handkerchief hawkers<br />at the traffic jams <br /><br />January--<br />increased mango hawkers<br />on the roadside</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">MORE from January 2012</span><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/3900">January by Patrick Wafula </a> <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />*****<br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-289588384507682932011-11-06T12:47:00.000-08:002011-11-24T16:23:21.441-08:00St Mathew Kukai Nov 2011<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Eleventh Kukai of the Haiku Clubs of Nairobi</strong></span><br />St Mathew’s Secondary School, Soweto Branch<br />November 5, 2011<br /><br />This was the eleventh Kukai of the Haiku Clubs of Nairobi. It took place at St Mathew’s, Soweto Branch, following the kind invitation of Mr Andrew Otinga, the Patron of the Peacocks Haiku Club. It was also the last kukai for several members of the Peacocks and the Bamboochas, who were in the final days of their KCSE examinations and were about to graduate from their respective schools.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/sets/72157627942701847/detail/"><span style="font-size:130%;">. Photo Album . </span> </a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Participants :</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peacocks </span><br />Abednego Muasya<br />Agnetta Shikalo<br />Akaliene Rose<br />Brian Etole<br />Brian Mulando<br />Bryan Anyonya<br />Carolyne Wanjiru<br />Caxton Okoth<br />Ceciliah Wambui<br />Derrick Ambale<br />Diana Dolla<br />Doris Muthini<br />Elijah Juma<br />Elijah Noah<br />Esther Mweme<br />Faith Owila<br />Florence Mlangi<br />Gertrude Wahu<br />Hamisi Ishmael Kambona<br />James Karume<br />Jescah Auma<br />John Kennedy<br />Joseph Musango<br />Joshua Kyalo<br />Julie Okach<br />Kevin Asava<br />Lencer Achieng<br />Margaret Ndinda<br />Metrine Okalo<br />Moses Nyawanga<br />Pauline Wayua<br />Richard Okoth<br />Silvia Mukelli<br />Sharon Akoth<br />Stanley Mutinda<br />Stanley K Joshua<br />Stephen Munyao<br />Synaidah Kalahi<br />Titus Mutungi<br />Valary Knight<br />Virginia Njeri<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bamboochas</span><br />Ancent Mutua<br />Annastacia Muthini<br />Antony Mwangi<br />Cecil Wambui<br />Collins Omuganda<br />Consolata Akoth<br />Donnahlily Atieno<br />Douglas Nugi<br />Emmanuel Muteti<br />Gloriah Kerubo<br />Iryne Lydiah Aluoch<br />Isaac Ndirangu<br />James Bundi<br />John Kamau<br />Johnson Gacugu<br />Lucy Mukuhi<br />Mecyline Akinyi<br />Melcine Ayako<br />Mercy Muthoni<br />Milkah Wanjiku<br />Rachael Njeri<br />Redempta Ndinda<br />Sam Pirias<br />Silvia Khabayi<br />Stephen Macharia<br />Sylviah Mbone<br />Susan Njeri<br />Teresia Njeri<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cocks</span><br />Caleb Mutua<br />Catherine Njeri Maina<br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br />While the students were gathering for the kukai, Mr Patrick Wafula, the Co-ordinator of the Haiku Clubs, gave them a quiz to solve, promising a small prize to the 16 participants who had answered all five questions correctly.<br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><br />Caleb Mutua was in charge as Master of Ceremonies for the morning session. Participants were sorry to hear that Antony Njoroge was ill and sent him their good wishes.<br /><br />The meeting started with lively choruses and a prayer.<br /><br />The new members of the Haiku Clubs, particularly those in Form One, were welcomed.<br /><br />The Chairpersons of the Haiku Clubs, Brian Etole and Synaidah Kalahi for the Peacocks and Isaac Ndirangu for the Bamboochas, then presented brief reports on the work which had been carried out in their respective clubs.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/6318655191/"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6318655191_951dc4f8ba_z.jpg" /></a><br />Synaidah Kalahi presenting the Peacocks’ report<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo : Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update on computer teaching</span><br /><br />Mr David Kimani reported that the following computer students (all Peacocks) had been regular and committed attendees at computer classes and would soon have finished their end-of-year examinations, qualifying them for a certificate :<br /><br />Jack Silingi<br />Pauline Wayua<br />Synaidah Kalahi<br />Benta Kisia<br />Stanley K Joshua<br />Doris Muthini<br />Winfrida Maheri<br />Elijah Juma<br />Joshua Kyalo<br />Titus Mutungi<br />Otakwa Livingstone<br />Agnetta Shikalo<br />Abednego Muasya<br />Caxton Okoth<br />Monica Ndunge<br />Joseph Musango<br />Valary Knight<br />Margaret Ndinda<br />Grannis Ambuli<br />John Kennedy<br />Victor Odhiambo<br />Jescah Auma<br /><br />He expressed his appreciation for their commitment and studiousness, and he looked forward to teaching the next group soon after the start of the new school year.<br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best haiku submitted to Kenya Saijiki since the previous kukai</span><br /><br />As the Moderator of Kenya Saijiki, I (Isabelle Prondzynski) then presented prizes for the best haiku written by members of the forum during the past few months. I had been greatly impressed with the high standard of haiku written by the prizewinners, so that the choice of the top places had been a hard one. The prizewinners received some well-merited applause.<br /><br />These are the prizewinning haiku :<br /><br />1.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sunset --<br />a farmer scrapes mud<br />from his hoe</span><br /><br />~ Victor Obutho<br /><br />2.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Gertrude's hospital --<br />jacaranda flowers fall<br />one by one</span><br /><br />~ J Kaweto<br /><br />3.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">light shower --<br />her hair shines with<br />raindrops</span><br /><br />~ Brian Mulando<br /><br />4.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sudden blackout --<br />the hawker lights<br />all his torches<br /></span><br />~ Brian Etole<br /><br />5.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">marching scouts --<br />dust rises from their<br />stumbling feet<br /></span><br />~ Yamame<br /><br />6.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Mashujaa Day --<br />rain forces the choir<br />from the stage</span><br /><br />~ Kelvin Mukoselo<br /><br />7.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">twilight --<br />sunrays sweep across<br />jacaranda flowers</span><br /><br />~ Catherine Njeri Maina<br /><br />8.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">a dishevelled calf<br />shelters under a stall --<br />evening showers</span><br /><br />~ Bonface Bonke<br /><br />9.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">rush hour --<br />a matatu spills dust<br />past the market</span><br /><br />~ Elijah Juma<br /><br />10.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">goat choma point --<br />the sparkling light of<br />a burning jiko</span><br /><br />~ James Bundi<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/6337585941"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6228/6337585941_ccb7b2a978.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Viewing the haiku prizes</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo : Patrick Wafula </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Numbers 11 to 18</span> (in no particular order)</span><br />---------------------------------------------------------<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />a body push<br />sends a lady to the floor --<br />avocado chaos</span><br /><br />~ Mango Junior<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />a candle flame sways<br />side to side in the wind --<br />power failure</span><br /><br />~ Stephen Macharia<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">muddy road --<br />a mkokoteni puller<br />in torn gumboots</span><br /><br />~ Isaac Ndirangu<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">late evening --<br />a greengrocer lights<br />the first candle</span><br /><br />~ Winfridah Malesi<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">moving cars --<br />a cloud of dust floats<br />in the air</span><br /><br />~ Otakwa Livingstone<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">busy road --<br />a glimmer of light<br />from the matatu<br /></span><br />~ Pauline Wayua<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Soweto market --<br />she sprinkles water on<br />withered vegetables</span><br /><br />~ Douglas Nugi<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Mashujaa Day --<br />heavy rain interrupts<br />the programme<br /></span><br />~ Douglas Kaucho<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Appreciating other people’s haiku</span></span><br /><br />In a workshop, with nine groups of around nine people working together, the students discussed nine prizewinning international haiku, working out which of these they liked best, and why. Each group then presented the haiku they had chosen, explaining why they liked it best and whether it complied with the basic rules of haiku.<br /><br />They realised that it was not easy to work out which was the kigo, as the seasons are different in other parts of the world, but they made a valiant effort to find the kigo in each example. They also made several thoughtful suggestions as to how the haiku could have been further improved.<br /><br />The two haiku that garnered the most support in this workshop were :<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">paper lantern --<br />a moth’s shadow dances<br />on the wall</span><br /><br />~ Jacek M.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />after the storm --<br />the old dry well<br />full of stars</span><br /><br />~ Manuela Dragomirescu<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/6318660323"><img style="width: 403px; height: 302px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6318660323_1c72bf606a.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Haiku working groups</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">~ Photo : Isabelle Prondzynski<br /></span><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Poetic haiga</span></span><br /><br />Isaac Ndirangu then presented a poetic haiga he had written, about Mashujaa Day (20 October), a kigo for the short rains, when the heroes of Kenya are celebrated.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />in the times of war<br />Kenyan warriors fought for all<br />some even tried to build some wall<br />for they knew the war was not for the fool<br />mashujaa fought for all<br /><br />National Stadium --<br />a presidential speech to recognise<br />our freedom fighters<br /><br />the land was disgusting<br />especially where they were hiding<br />the wise were forbidding<br />for our leaders who were upcoming<br />bur still mashujaa fought for all<br /><br />commemorating independence --<br />rest in peace the gone heroes<br />of our Kenya<br /><br />some were detained<br />but still freedom was obtained<br />and now we are enjoying what our warriors attained<br />mashujaa fought for all </span><br /><br /><br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ginkoo - Haiku Walk </span></span><br /><br />After the lunch break, the haijin set out for their ginkoo, while the Patrons and the Moderator discussed haiku club business. Following the ginkoo, they became the jury, while the haijin entertained themselves and each other.<br /><br />These were the haiku chosen as the prizewinners of the ginkoo :<br /><br />1.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">the thud of<br />a fresh mudball on the floor --<br />hopscotch</span><br /><br />~ James Bundi<br /><br />2.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">muddy path --<br />her shoe remains<br />behind</span><br /><br />~ Milkah Wanjiku<br /><br />3.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">hot afternoon --<br />he pours ginkoo water<br />on his head</span><br /><br />~ Brian Etole<br /><br />4.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">hot noon --<br />she washes a baby<br />on the balcony</span><br /><br />~ Brian Mulando<br /><br />5.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">cool breeze --<br />a tethered goat browses<br />on a green field</span><br /><br />~ Asava Kevin<br /><br />6.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sunny afternoon --<br />tadpoles paddling inside<br />stagnant water</span><br /><br />~ Agnetta Shikalo<br /><br />7.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">water ripples --<br />sun's reflection on its surface<br />hits my eyes</span><br /><br />8.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sweat drips --<br />he pushes a wheelbarrow<br />full of stones</span><br /><br />~ Donnahlily Atieno<br /><br />9.<br />---<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">afternoon nap --<br />haijin's footsteps wake<br />the goat up</span><br /><br />10.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">flower bed --<br />the gardener uproots<br />a moss plant</span><br /><br />~ Gloriah Kerubo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/6332394357"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6332394357_66cfacdf01.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Out for the ginkoo</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">~ Photo : David Kimani Mwangi</span><br /><br />11.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">roadside kiosk --<br />a vendor loading some<br />empty charcoal cans</span><br /><br />~ Isaac Ndirangu<br /><br />12.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">noon --<br />a panting dog crosses<br />the stream</span><br /><br />~ Stanley Mutinda<br /><br />13.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">rattling sound --<br />a toad hops over<br />the dustbin</span><br /><br />~ Joshua Kyalo<br /><br />14.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">hot sunshine --<br />man in yellow cap relaxing<br />under a castor tree</span><br /><br />~ Dominic Kuvonga<br /><br />15.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">midday --<br />bluegum leaves fall<br />beside a haijin</span><br /><br />~ Diana Dolla<br /><br />16.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">sudden wind --<br />banana leaves sway<br />side by side</span><br /><br />~ Mercy Muthoni<br /><br />17.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">scorching sun --<br />the reflection of light on<br />the water surface</span><br /><br />~ Stephen Macharia<br /><br />18.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">water in a basin --<br />a rainbow cast on the<br />shiny mabati<br /></span><br />~ Margaret Ndinda<br /><br />19.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">calm afternoon --<br />an eagle tries to balance<br />high up in the sky</span><br /><br />~ John Kennedy<br /><br />20.<br />----<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">trimmed fence --<br />a broken umbrella<br />suspended</span><br /><br />~ Synaidah Kalahi<br /><br />Prizes were distributed to the winners, and a great atmosphere continued to reign for some time after the close of the kukai, with haijin lingering, chatting to each other, and taking pictures in the evening sunlight. All agreed that this had been a splendid kukai, and expressed their congratulations to Mr Andrew Otinga, the organiser.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/6318672065"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6318672065_cefc1da971.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The ginkoo prizewinners</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">~ Photo : Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kukai haiku by the Patrons</span></span><br /><br />Following the kukai, the Patrons also sent in their haiku of the day, remembering the pleasure it had given them. So here, as an afterword, are the Patrons’ haiku :<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">the Moderator helps<br />a ladybird cross the table --<br />11th kukai<br /><br />withering flowers<br />in old plastic bottles --<br />the din of haijin<br /><br />Kukai workshop --<br />two chicks peck bread crumbs<br />under chairs</span><br /><br />~ Patrick Wafula<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">she moves<br />to inspect haiku groups --<br />eleventh kukai<br /><br />open windows --<br />cool breeze drifts<br />into the hall<br /><br />eleventh kukai --<br />flower vases on the<br />front table</span><br /><br />~ Andrew Otinga<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">eleventh kukai --<br />the flower arrangement wilts<br />before my eyes<br /><br />lunch break --<br />a hen and chicks peck<br />for our fallen crumbs</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">lunch break --<br />a kitten is resting<br />on a haijin’s lap<br /><br />jury meeting --<br />haiku entries weighed down<br />by our fingers</span><br /><br />~ Isabelle Prondzynski<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh390qKlMfQeb8bhDKwP2PBshD5sj0ZWMx98E0F9_SzUdknZrSAN6VNzTNIIGB4cmk40PHozpU1hyphenhyphenomkogb_LhUlLc8yF2mPRcWo1g0mCUO6vVFzgqYX3McaHO8UsckKirQlT8j7A/s1600/Kenya+Kukai+Isabelle.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh390qKlMfQeb8bhDKwP2PBshD5sj0ZWMx98E0F9_SzUdknZrSAN6VNzTNIIGB4cmk40PHozpU1hyphenhyphenomkogb_LhUlLc8yF2mPRcWo1g0mCUO6vVFzgqYX3McaHO8UsckKirQlT8j7A/s400/Kenya+Kukai+Isabelle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676597153114870818" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The top table at the kukai, </span><br />with the flower vases we all enjoyed<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo : Patrick Wafula </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/12/kenya-haiku-clubs.html"><span style="font-size:130%;">. 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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Kajiado is a town in the Rift Valley Province, Kenya. </span><br />
The town is located south of Nairobi, along the Nairobi – Arusha highway. Kajiado has an urban population of 8128 (1999 census) . Local people are predominantly of the Maasai tribe.<br />
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Kajiado is headquarters to the Kajiado District.<br />
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The name "Kajiado" comes from the word "Orkejuado." <br />
Which means "The Long River" in Maasai language. The seasonal river named after the town runs west of the town.<br />
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The original name for Kajiado was "Olopurupurana", which means "a round elevation."<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grevegabi4000/6123090660/" title="Kajiado 02 by greve gabi 4000, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6123090660_ed08985046.jpg" alt="Kajiado 02" height="300" width="400" /></a><br />
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Kajiado sunset—<br />
white goats stroll home<br />
in a single file<br />
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a boy and a girl<br />
looking after goats—<br />
parched grass<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grevegabi4000/6122547893/" title="Kajiado 03 by greve gabi 4000, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6193/6122547893_f40b53ccca.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Kajiado 03"></a><br />
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ostriches stroll<br />
in undulating hills —<br />
thorny bushes<br />
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the driver asking<br />
if we are still in Kenya—<br />
winding road<br />
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hill after hill—<br />
the matatu nearly stalls<br />
on a steep slope<br />
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walking two km<br />
to the borehole for water—<br />
winding road<br />
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winding path—<br />
a torn leso abandoned<br />
on a thorny bush<br />
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walking 40 km<br />
to catch the bus stop—<br />
a girl faints<br />
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parched lips—<br />
sharing a half bottle<br />
of water<br />
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distant borehole—<br />
they skip a bathe a day<br />
to save water<br />
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a teenage wife—<br />
manyatta to manyatta<br />
evangelism<br />
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Heavy rains and damage in Kajiado - December 2013<br />
Heavy Rains Cause Havoc in Kajiado <br />
<a href="https://www.google.co.jp/#q=Heavy+rains+and+damage+in+Kajiado">- Reference - </a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Kajiado flashlights -<br />
pedestrians push the wreckage<br />
upstream<br />
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flooded Kajiado -<br />
the sound of sirens<br />
from a distance </span><br />
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Andrew Otinga<br />
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9571307.post-18010260610821147112011-07-27T18:24:00.000-07:002011-07-27T18:38:59.737-07:00Cold Water<a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO TOP . ]</span></a><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Cold Water<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"><strong>***** Location: Kenya<br />***** Season: Cold dry season<br />***** Category: Earth / Humanity </strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">*****************************<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Explanation<br /></strong></span><br />Most Kenyans use cold water to wash themselves, to take a shower, to wash their clothes and dishes. Very few households have hot running water. This may be because they have no running water at all, or because the water runs only rarely in the taps, or because they have no hot water system.<br /><br />Most of those Nairobi households which are connected to the mains pipes, receive running water only once a week on a particular weekday.<br />They then store the water in large plastic tanks and bring it into household use in buckets, basins and jerricans.<br /><br />Those who wish to use hot water for washing themselves or their clothes or dishes have to heat it in a kettle or a sufuria. This becomes expensive and laborious, and is something of a luxury.<br /><br />Using cold water means that the water temperature changes with the air temperature of the season. Water is therefore particularly cold in the morning during the cold dry season.<br /><br />Isabelle Prondzynski.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAG0OY2nnha4Hya945FCCrDl-BfCEQa17peXFnsQeslo-Ol90twuuc3yH-5zC3lL2qZKleEfo-BruOMLPp7zLEjIBlrP8XUVtQXSWXrkVmCt7VKzpBuMFpPYWb_ZC_qg1Vr2SCdw/s1600/Kenya+watertank.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAG0OY2nnha4Hya945FCCrDl-BfCEQa17peXFnsQeslo-Ol90twuuc3yH-5zC3lL2qZKleEfo-BruOMLPp7zLEjIBlrP8XUVtQXSWXrkVmCt7VKzpBuMFpPYWb_ZC_qg1Vr2SCdw/s320/Kenya+watertank.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634210185411334530" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Water tank on a roof</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/3220987768/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXh6_6iA_rdmtQoH0jEHaqqYSxCCmSjhS5aRYt2BZ4IDcSB_Vei7aaVP41cWs7Tl4grlnGhE_3HN3AzgwIt1HPPffIixk-PY0Il1Rq75hMZ6vJjQj2b4j77_3140n83AEa7Gk2A/s320/Kenya+water+trickling.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634210886926264402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Water trickling into a basin</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/5459390640/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_rSXLNeJI7wdLu7cPd4y8LCSRbNB02JB2eWh1SeGfQu1je00F7cnCKGMsvs8ytfidFJ_HiDdSAynCbdYP1pzKO0gNcuJOKQInJR2I32_yGiC0hxfnzDm39W8GbyiZTs4lh31UVA/s320/Kenya+washing+hands.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634211165922756466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Washing hands before a meal</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/5458792617/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RTgYgSSOFzRZNaqEs4OX6WCztgJGX63bjsNJnHXbPyroBm8V-j1LKBXUpOgJcn0RP1nHG7xevWF8yr9kRuYZh5-kSriHJdgh969plMR8q116lfIG4IF_vno6L4XtDHB3plC8kA/s320/Kenya+washing+cloths.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634211425554101794" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Washing the dishes at the Nursery School</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">All photos © Isabelle Prondzynski</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">***************************** </span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Worldwide use</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Things found on the way</span></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************<br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">HAIKU</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />cold water--<br />I straighten myself very fast<br />in the bathroom<br /><br />cold water --<br />I take too long standing<br />in the bathroom<br /><br />cold water--<br />I wash my head and feet<br />in the bathroom </span><br /><br />Barrack Elungata<br /><br />:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*****************************</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Related words</strong></span><br /><br />***** <a href="http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/01/water-mizu.html">. WKD : Water in various Kigo . </a><br /><br />hiyamizu uri 冷水売(ひやみずうり) vendor of cold water<br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">kigo for all summer </span></strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:78%;">[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]</span></a><br />::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Gabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com0