Thursday, October 12, 2006

Where it all began!


My journey begins in New nyanza General Hospital, in Kisumu city along the shores of the largest lake in Africa (Lake Victoria) where on a cloudy morning of 9th January 1971 my mother Mrs Beatrice Inziani brought me forth into this world. Born into a very humble world, as my mother says I started fighting from the word go. I was among the first 10 babies to be born at the hospital right after it was opened by the late founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. So I was special in some kind of way, that I almost met the founding father. Unfortunately that was pretty much the closest I ever came to the dude...History though has it that he was quite a dude.. he left behind a legacy that some have found difficult to keep up with..he is our founding father and he deserves his place in history...

Back to my world. I havent been a frequent visitor to Kisumu, only having visited back 3 or 4 times since that first cloudy morning. The last time being in 1999 while passing through from a business trip to Kakamega (another great town which i will definitely write about. I owe my beginnings to the town though and I will make an effort to visit often...