Category: THE VILLAGE ROVER: Tonny Ogwa (every Monday)

AND THE WAR FLOWERED
September 2, 2020 4

AND THE WAR FLOWERED

By Tonny Ogwa

It’s wrong what they say about war. War brings death, desolation and untold suffering. But sometimes war beget flowers too.…

ON MY LAST BREATH
August 21, 2020 1

ON MY LAST BREATH

By Tonny Ogwa

Do you ever miss me? Do you sometimes jerk awake in the middle of the night, the feeling of hollowness, emptiness hovering over you like a messenger of doom.

EMBAKASI
June 8, 2020 1

EMBAKASI

By Tonny Ogwa

You carefully and strategically throw a joke about cows and how they’ll look good in your father’s compound. She says that should not be a problem since there are already too many cows in the form of you and your clansmen. And you’re not making your father’s compound look any better.

TALES OF THE VILLAGER
June 7, 2020 1

TALES OF THE VILLAGER

By Tonny Ogwa

I would have also told you about Ajuoga Janawi the great medicine man who placed his enemies in bottles of chang’a and threw them into the lake but I will not.

FRIENDSHIPS AND SAD MADARAKA DAY
June 1, 2020 1

FRIENDSHIPS AND SAD MADARAKA DAY

By Tonny Ogwa

And because today is a Sad Madaraka day, and because my father sold his coveted cows to send me to school so I can eventually force knowledge through your thick craniums, I’m going to give you a brief history of this man Tom Mboya.