CERTIFICATE OF CIRCUMCISION No one captures the mood of circumcision like my younger brother Mwangi .It was resolved that instead of him undergoing ndemengo at a local initiator, he was to be taken to a center in Nyeri Town. After two weeks he graduated with a certificate in circumcision although he had not healed properly-Pure wastage of money.He spent another three weeks at the bed and when he was properly healed, He decided to pinch cabbages (gukunya mboga) or rubbing shoot (kwihura mbiro) with another girl a kilometer away from home.Mwangi is still the hope of our home. He was and is still very religious and cannot spin a lie. In april The interim results started trickling. Seated outside I spotted two thigari cia cibu (local name for aps they are referred to as police of chief). Wambugu and Ndungu dropping to our homestead pale kanisani mtelemkoni. Rumors had spread that he was a victim and I knew automatically wamemkunjia. I alerted Mwangi and immediately he exiled towards cucu mbirithira hut. I followed to witness the drama. Wambugu and ndungu came to our direction. Cucu twagira mwanake uyu waku(cucu we have come for your boy) tutumitwo ni cibu ngeru (by order of chief ngeru)niaunite mburi yene kuguru (he has fractured someone goats leg-euphemism for impregnating someones girl. The fine was fifty thousand shillings-a two year school fees yet Mwangi was in form one. Cucu asked Mwangi in his favourite name- waihenya nima niunite mburi yene kuguru?aca cucu ni kuigirirwo. winama mutionanite nake kimwiri? (waihenya is it true you have fractured someones goat? cucu it wasn’t me. waihenya have you not seen each other bodywise-euphemism for horizontal jogging in the village. Cucu yes we did with her but I used condoms-na condom nikii-what is a condom?cucu asked- ni maratathi ma waganu mundu eyohaga agithie gwika waganu ta uria mundu ethayaga agitua macani na mbura-(nylon papers like those one you use when one is picking tea. Mbirithira being a wise old woman 90 years old said sawa and followed them to chief ngeru office. Annoyed she entered forcefully into chiefs office and dared to strip naked if her great grandson is arrested. She claimed that Mwangi is too young to do those things and it is kinyararo (malice) chief ngeru has. Ngeru was ashamed to fight with a 90 years old. mwari Wa karuri inukai ningumwita hindi ingi (daughter of karuri go home the two of you I will call you after sometime.) that is how Mwangi escaped from paying the pregnancy. Na ihu rikiurira. No one knows up to know mwana ni wau. Luckily Mwangi is the only man in our clan who has a proof he is circumcised. He has a certificate to prove.The rest we have to strip to prove.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:00:23 +0000
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