The village kalewa

Kenyans are known to be a creative lot and central province residents lead the pack. Every free day is a reason to drink, religious holidays, national holidays, weddings burials and the list is endless. But the solution to cater for free time is the universal answer of nyama choma and drinks to teremsha. however a more creative lot need no holiday as the time is easily managed by dedicating to one peculiar duty of getting intoxicated or looking for the money to get one a drink. This was so intense that it called for government intervention to get rid of a hallowed drink to those of whom who followed that gospel.

 After all the fiasco about the liquor extermination drama that was a hot topic on many lips, sweet to some, bitter to some and uncertain to a few depending on what one intended to do with the half full if you are refilling or half empty if you are pouring it or those who had nothing to do with glasses with mysterious intoxicating liquids. The absence of the lethal drinks has had quite a noticeable impact.

The  disappearance of usual kalewa guy who as early as 7 am was always tipsy and in urgent need of a 20 bob for this or the other reason giving long stories or asking for it point blank depending  on your level of acquaintance, definitely for the sole reason of a fix.

Lingual changes have also taken place as some terms are now fading to oblivion such as ka-half aka kanusu, kutoa lock, the daytime unlock knocking codes  creative names of the brands that kept popping up by the day so fare thee well

A cleaner nation as time is now being allocated for trivial duties of grooming or sobriety has brought about the realization that water has other uses other than diluting that cherished drink

A career change for the vendors with their licenses gone some have opted for the food industry investing in a feeding nation no longer the drinking nation, the supply vans now have other uses depending on the creativity of the owner but am yet to know what happened to the makeshift factories and bottling units a time of water scarcity exhausters clean up and rebrand to supply fresh water would be they are packing flavored drinking water?

A lot of smiling females as now the transformers are now functional and the attention has now shifted and skirts don’t pass unnoticed. Am sure that now the number of “mollis” wills also increase as well as “sullenda” gossip will still hover around on social media.

Thanks to all women of dunduri and men of the earth that had the energy to let it flow the media house too had their part well done.  The kalewas of this generation now have the hardest time to choose between the mineral water, tea, or milk. Some are still in shock and wondering why it had to go so soon without a goodbye.