Sons Disappointed their Fathers
Shaggy hair that looked like ropes used in an old garage to pull vehicles,dirty and oily,torn trousers with a banana fibre which served as a belt or when he tried,a rope he stole from his mother's favourite goat Maara,a slipper and a shoe on either foot and a patched t-shirt was Kabutu's best look. His face was somewhere between that of a person who used to be brown and handsome but years of suffering and eating from the bins had transformed and eroded the beauty greatly but still,women would be heard commenting "Kabutu was very handsome before he....". On many days, a skunk and a male goat would have sat down to take notes on how to smell like hell from Kabutu. When he was born a horde of Kikuyu women came to celebrate his birth in what is commonly know as 'gucuugia mwana' and his mother had lots to do during that ceremony trying to hide the child's beautiful face lest some envious woman sees him and casts a spell...