My
Sundays are incomplete if I don’t get to read Mwalimu Andrew’s articles in the
Sunday Nation. I don’t know why I have come to be so deeply attached to Mwalimu
Andrews articles, in spite of the fact that they are almost certainly
fictional.
It could perhaps be to the way they are written, with simple yet entertaining storylines. Mwalimu Andrew writes in the simple manner
that would be expected of a Kenyan primary school teacher. The writer (Mwalimu
Dre) is almost certainly not a Kenyan primary school teacher, but he does a
good job in presenting himself as one in an absolutely convincing manner.
Another thing
that really draws me to Mwalimu Andrew’s Sunday nation articles is the dry
humor in them. I think it actually started off as a humor column, before eventually turning
into a normal diary article, but with still a heavy dose of humor in it.
Perhaps yet another attraction in Mwalimu Andrew’s articles is the fact that it
reminds many of us who were brought up in the rural areas about rural life and
its simple pleasures.
It has gotten to a point where the characters in Mwalimu
Andrews articles – the likes of Nyayo, Fiolina the laugh of his life, his
father mzee caleb, his brothers pius and ford, his son Probox and the other one had with teacher Cate, Hitler the
alcohol vendor and others have become very real to me. And places like Kasuku
Hotel, Cosmos Bar and Mwisho wa Lami have similarly become very real to me over
the years.
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