3 History has it that, long ago our ancestors did an act that remained to haunt them for decades. The villagers of kighalla used to brew beer using fermented sugarcane, then one sunny day, a stranger passed by when the villagers had a celebration (Karamu) for a girl who was to get married and asked for a sip of beer known as (M’Mbangara) since he was dying of thirst, and they refused to give him because he was unkempt, he looked strange with a human face on one side and grass on the other side, dirty, with an ugly protruding head, smelling sweat they in fact laughed at him and chased him away. They totally ignored him. Out of all the villagers, only one poor woman offered the stranger a drink. The kind woman was the one whose …show more content…
A photo of a rainbow after the rains The Villagers assembled in groups and talked in low hushed tones, murmuring of what had happened the previous night and asked God what catastrophe had befallen them. The men started pulling the rubbles and started to rebuild their huts as women looked for firewood and lit fire and looked for something to cook. They learnt a lot on that day, never to despise anybody. That story has been told from one generation to the other and I also pass it to the next generation. As per that subsequent disaster, floods can now be prevented by forming a management committee set to prevent that from happenings in every county, they say prevention is better than cure and so the government is coming up with measures to control floods. This is done by sensitizing people who live on lower grounds to move to higher grounds to prevent landslides, digging dykes and also educating citizens on disaster …show more content…
By the way history has it that some of our ancestors migrated from Tanzania and as they migrated some settled as others passed to the higher and fertile lands in such of pasture and productive land, that’s why they say in Kitaita (Wadawida) which means we have passed them, the origin of the word wadawida and the speak a common language (kidawida). The Taitas are subdivided in more than three sub tribes the Saghalla the Wadawida, and the Wataveta and there are those who settled in Kasighau Hills and though we are all Bantus, our dialects are very different and so sometimes we have to use Kiswahili the national language to understand each other. The language and ancient of these sub tribes vary but there is a corrosion of some Swahili words in