Play time: 02:56 minutes. Recorded in Mago, Kenya, March 14, 2014.

Ingoko Na Lugembe

Sapenzia Khadoto

Engoko yali na vulina na live, engoko ni inyola vana. Ni ilola vana vange liswi lyakayumba ni ngole ndi. Mbetsa na mulina wange ni nzya kumusava lugembe alambaku. Engoko ni itsya kusava live lugembe. Live livugula lugembe liha engoko limmbola "utsi kuvegela vana vovo nu wakamala kuvega, lugembe lwange nu unzilanyile" engoko ni itsya ni ivega vana ni imala. Ni ivika lugembe, kana kavitila iyi katsya kuvugula lugembe lwene yolo nu lugota.

Lwa live litsa lyenya lugembe, liteva engoko "kambe lugembe lwange rafiki" engoko ni ihenza ha yavika ilola dave. Ni iteva ku vyana yivi vijiba dave. Live livola "ku lugembe lwange ni lwagota, inze cha nangole nyambugule mwana wowo sya mulala mpaka lidiku lya ulimba lugembe lwange" ne kivune kijila live mpaka na kalunu livugula vana va engoko. Chigila engoko ikili kuhana lugembe dave. Lwa ilihana lugembe na live lileka kuvugula vana vayo.

OMUKENYE

Kale vandu valitsa kindu cha valanganga omukenye. Nu uteva mwana amanyi kindu chene yecho dave, kandi amanyi kuli vakilomba dave. Mukenye ndalola vakeere noho mama avugule maganda atee ku mashiga. Maganda gashi ni gakava himbi kudota ku ma avugula, mabwoni gege yaga na avatsi avika mu maganda yomo ndyo. Adeka lwa mabwoni gala gahitsa, avugula mwiko aduyanya, kuhambanya maganda na mabwoni. Akola ligali kuli umala vukima ndi, gahambane vulahi. Nacho kindu cha valanganga umukenye na madiku ganu kudeka ligali dave, chigila kwadaka maganda. Kali mabwoni kwadaka tsimbuku tsyamala.

Hen and the razor blade

Hen had friendship with the eagle. The hen got children. She saw that her children had long hair that needed to be shaved. She wondered what to do. She remembered her friend and she knew that the friend can assist her with the razor blade. The hen went to borrow razor blade from the eagle. The eagle took the razor blade and gave the hen. Eagle told hen to go and shave her children and when she has finished she return the razor blade back. The hen went and shaved the children and when she finished shaving she kept the razor blade. One of her child went and took the razor blade and it got lost.

When the eagle came it wanted the razor blade, and he asked the hen to give him the razor blade. The hen looked at where she had kept it but she did not find it. She asked her children but they did not answer back. The eagle said since his razor blade is lost, he will be taking one of her children until the day when she will return the razor blade. That is the reason to why the eagle is still taking away the children of the hen. Because the hen has not given him the razor blade. The day she will give him his razor blade that is the day he will stop taking away her children.

OMUKENYE

Long time ago people used to eat "omukenye" means it is a meal made of beans that are mixed with sweet potatoes. If you ask a child today a child, they cannot define it. And they do not know how to prepare it. I used to see mother taking beans and putting them on the fire, when the beans boils she takes the sweet potatoes and pill them then add to the beans. When the sweet potatoes boil, she could take a cooking stick and mix the beans and the sweet potatoes together to form a thick paste. That is what we call "omukenye" and we do not prepare it because we lack beans and sweet potatoes which are eaten by the moles.