Thomas Mwiraria Murithi

They trudged through the soul of darkness.Through lands that teem with slitherers,crawlers, stingers, teeth in darkness and hostile tribes. They dared raging rivers –gray and wide, labyrinth of thorny paths-stopping under acacia shade to nurse aching limbs. Old and grey men,youth,women who lacked nothing in courage and their clueless babies straddled on their backs. Their only earthly possessions were desiccated sleeping mats and cooking utensils which were more like artifacts.Some fell ill on the way, others were stuck by accidents of nature and death killed them.In the dawn of 1960’s they arrived in Kenya. They are group of Shona community from Zimbabwe who embarked on a pilgrimage believing Kenya was their land of promise only a stateless people at the the Kenya shadows.