Grandpa
My grandfather is quite the story teller. As children, we would always seek him out during visits as he would gleefully tell us the tales about his life. He wasn’t one to make up stories, as he would show us photos, letters, basically to prove to us kids that these stories were real. I never questioned the realism of his tales as a child. Young children rarely take a story as fictional, at least from my perspective. The man who traveled all the way from Nabiswa village in Bungoma to witness the burial of Mzee Kenyatta in 1978.Peter Wamalwa Mukhwana is his name.Born in 1937 and circumcised in 1956(Omunyange namba tano).His father was Mukhwana and his mother Veronica Naswa. He’s warm, loving, firm and straightforward. He has a way of accepting whatever came his way with no more than a shrug. His deep catholic faith carries him through what life has to offer. One of nine children, he pulled himself out of poverty with great drive and determination but he never forgot his roots. He wa