It turns out, after all, that we'll have short rains, and Kenyans if all the lamentations on social media are to go by, feel cheated.
In spite of preparing for months for this event, my community has never arrived at the woman’s home in time, keeping the hosts waiting an entire day.
If there is an event that was hotly anticipated by Kenyans this year, it is the El Niño rains. When you keep being promised something and it doesn't happen or delays big time, you begin to get agitated and feel let-down, even when that something is not good for you – yes, I know, human beings are a puzzling lot.
But surely you understand where I’m coming from, I mean, even speedboats were bought, or were to be bought, in readiness for the heavy downpour that the Met department started warning us about in January. Where I live, so far, it hasn't rained, no, drizzled, more than five times, and all the vegetation around us is browner than green, due to being denied rainfall.
