roadside streams

Mutura is a delicacy, but only as long as you do not ask where it came from and which animal was sacrificed to prepare it. A certain someone from wherever just arrived in our neighbourhood and brought with her good tidings  Men and women have been flocking to her new place, and pregnant women have developed a craving for her Mutura specifically, claiming mtoto ndio anataka. Wazee have not been left behind either. They were used to samosa za githeri but this woman packs legit meat in their crispy brown cover, and so it was expected that men would go there and digest Uhuru-Raira while they partook in the entrails and the false mandazi. This woman is generous, and it is true that her Mutura was slightly larger and her samosa packs heavy punches. She had her own recipe which she never shared, but who cares? It was big and good, and that is all that mattered, true? Nobody questioned a lot, and it barely raised eyebrows when Mukurino Wa Jesu declared his two donkeys missing. He was the o...