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Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Title: The Lock Down in village Media: Acrylic on
Canvas, Artist: Wanyama
heroes in my rural home during the
lockdown of the year 2020. Indulging
in ‘Busaa, Chang’aa, and Eng’uli’ (illic-
it alcohol), luring primary school girls
with goodies, and touching widows’
Title: The Village Gathering, Media: Acrylic on Canvas, Artist: Wanyama ‘jujus’ were our hobbies. I got tired of
such sickening behavior when I was
hatever we see following a man, what- caught red-handed in the wee hours of
ever fate comes to take revenge on him, the night. I narrowly escaped a poison-
Wcan only be what a man in some way did ous arrow by a whisker, targeting my
in previous years. It is what our forefathers believed left eye; I would be a one-eyed man.
during a devastating period. I was among the village This time I sat quietly in my mother’s
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