Beyond, a culture so rich!
It’s official. Khat (miraa) has officially dethroned weed as the most misunderstood plant in the world. All hail the shrub!
But why all the hullabaloo over this seemingly harmless shrub? Is it really as dangerous as it has in recent …
Legend has it that during a particularly long drought that came upon the land of the prophet Mugwe, the people prayed to the god of the mountain Mwene Nyaga for rains to no avail. Plants, animals and people began dying …
Remember our story about God among the Ameru? Well, apart from God, the Ameru believed there were spirits, supernatural beings, roaming the earth. There were good spirits, there were bad spirits and there were spirits no one knew much …
Child Naming was traditionally a very serious affair among the Ameru. Why? One, the Ameru believed that the child’s name was a determinant of what the child really was. Secondly, it was sacrifice to God and the ancestors.
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When …
Some time ago, we wrote about how female circumcision was started by a guy called Uui of the Aaa Uui laughter fame.
Now, we will tell you how the culture developed and exactly how girls …
Riddles are part of our lives or at least they were. They are simple puzzles that have a involve two people one as the proposer and the other as a respondent. They are based on the local environment. I don’t …
Everywhere you go and non-Meru people learn you are Meru, they will greet you with “Muga Vaite Murume”. First, always remind them to remove the V, it’s Baite, because the Meru dictionary doesn’t have V.
Then, refer them to this …
This was a book that was used in standard 3 in teaching Kimeru in school and there is a tonne of fantastic stories that we will curate for you over time. So pick a stool and sit by the fire …
Remember our previous stories on the 2 fearsome justice-inducing Meru curses Kithiri and Kûringa Nthenge? Well, those, or fear of them was enough to keep the community members behaved. But there were crimes, because watu ni wale wale.…
I cannot begin to describe death to you. Not because I don’t want to, it’s because there is nothing about death to describe, there is a darkness that surrounds it and something always shifts when we lose someone. We are …
