Play time: 02:22 minutes. Recorded in Mago, Kenya, March 19, 2014.

Vakana Mu Nyumba

Difena Aseyo

Munyumba mwa kwagonanga vana vakana kale; vakana nivagona munyumba mwalange mu vakana sita mwalange yiyi vavaga na yiyi vavaga. Mwavugulanga kachindi; kandu kadi mulomba ma muta mu makono. Lwa mutetsa mmakono yava vavaga yiyi na vavaga yiyi mwenyanga muvuguli eng'ombe yeyo ukuba uvika uyu mmokono kandi uvugula uvika undi mmokono kandi undi oyo. Sasa mwenya mumanyie yavo ndio valole mwa eng'ombe yene yeyo iveye. Mulala ku vo amanye agimili mukono mwa yimu ndi ma vosi kosi kulingula makono gene yaga. Onyoye eng'ombe dave; oveye nayo ni undi; kwamanya kovole kunwetsa mmbere ma kokola ssssssip (sip) ma kandi ndio kandi ndio. Lelo lwa venya kukuba ndio, wenyatsa kutsia kudila mu mukono mwe eng'ombe eveye, amanye avuguli kohe vene yavo kijira vanyoye eng'ombe yavo. Lwa mwali makono ituli mmukono mwu uyu adiye mu uvuyi eng'ombe enyolechi mu; venava venya vakubi kandi. kandi vavole kunyi yava kandi vuli; ma utsia uvula mwu gundi oyo. Nu kanyoye vene yavo vavola munyoye dave. kandi vatange, vakubi kandi vaviki mwu gwu undi. Lwa utsitsa kuvula, lwa munyola eng'ombe yeneyo kandi yenya anwe mmbere; vanyoye eng'ombe dave. kwakola ndio valala ni vaguta vandi; nivanyweye mavere tsisafari likomi na yava nvanwe mavere tsisafari tsivili anoho tsivaga vakugwa. Chene yicho galange ndio. Nduchi hene yaho. Eng'ombe yaa yeneyo.

Girls in the house

In the house that we were sleeping in as girls, we were six. Three could sleep on one side while the other three sleep on the other side. You could take something called "kachindi" you make it then you put it on the arm. The three are on one side while the other three are on the other side. You take a cow and you now want to let the other three know where the cow is, one of them will touch her arms on the breast, then we stretch our arms. "you have not found the cow, the one who has is another one" we will say that we are drinking milk and we say ssssssip (sip) then we repeat the same.

Now when they want to hit like that you just want to go and touch your arm where the cow is. One group will agree to give the others because they have found their cow. The other group will hit and say we are here, and then you touch and if you are not right they say, "you have not found it" they begin again. They hit and keep in the other one, when you find that cow you now want to drink the milk. We used to do that and some used to defeat others and drink milk ten times and the others if they drunk it for two or three times they have failed. That one was like that. When you reach there that is my cow.