Lifes' files

Welcome to the land of the bananas. Banana trees are the signage that welcomes you to the heart of South Nyanza. A few months away, I landed in Kisii town - a crowded town to the South of Nyanza. It was deep into the night, an eerie night, when I arrived. On a cold still night, Kisii can seem a forlorn place.  And there I was, with a bag in tow, ready to take the town by storm. I had traveled a couple hundred kilometers from Nairobi to get started once again. Bored with the chagrin of a dirty metropolis and its inept officers, I had no love lost for a city I had lived for the better part of the decade. So I set sail, and waded to Kisii where I was keen to eke a fortune for myself and for the glory of the Lord. Growing up in the rift, there were lots of inoculating stories I heard about Kisii. Mostly, they were terrifying tales that scared my childhood away. And so, as I set foot in Kisii town, in spite of the morbid fear I harbored about the place growing up, I ...