Post by Onyango Oloo on May 29, 2017 13:47:59 GMT 3
I know this is the POLITICS section of Jukwaa.
But this news I am about to convey though ostensibly "Personal" is very POLITICAL for I believe with the FEMINISTS of the world that the personal is very political although the originators of the phrase my have had a very different concept in their minds.
On Saturday, May 27th 2017, I was in Iiro, South Ugenya to bury Ms. Agnes Othieno, my 95 year old aunt and eldest sister to my late dad Richard Achwal Oloo and daughter of my grandmother, the late Doris Awiti and my late grand father Isaya Oloo. She was the mother of seven daughters and sons among them Mrs Margaret Amondi Makanyeng, a psychiatrist at Kenyatta National Hospital and Patricia Akinyi, a radiologist at the same medical institution.
The funeral ended without incident around three p.m. and I traveled to my rural home in Luanda Kagina located in Kisa Location, Kwhisero in Kakamega County though my K'Agola clan is from Gem just literally across the border in Gem, Siaya County.
I was getting ready to travel back to Sagana, Kirinyaga County when I heard some sobbing and wailing in my own homestead. I was astounded because we knew of no deaths in my neighbourhood. On getting out of my father's house I was surprised to see my very own youngest sister Ruth Awuori Oloo, screaming and crying. I inquired what has happened. She too had been at the funeral in far off Ugenya with me.
"Please change! Akinyi is no more!"
At first I did not know which Akinyi she was referring to-whether it was one of my three first cousins who I had personally seen at the funeral only an hour ago or somebody else.
"It is OUR Akinyi!"-referring to my own second last born sister that Awuori immediately follows who is in Durban, South Africa.
"But you just spoke to her telling her and sister Janet how auntie's funeral went", I protested.
Well, Janet's first born daughter Jennifer,(named after our late mother Jennifer Siare) called me from Paris, France where she is studying to tell me that her auntie had collapsed and died ten minutes ago, according to her mother Janet.
It was left to my sister Janet Adhiambo Okeyo who is my immediate follower to fill in the blanks.
Apparently, earlier in the day, my sister Sarah had complained of some pain caused by what turned out to be a blood clot which had left her with a swollen knee. Janet has a South African friend who is a a medical doctor that she immediately contacted and soon joined her in Janet's car making their way to Sarah's Durban apartment. Janet buzzed the intercom but there was no response. Finally, a neighbour opemed the entrance to the building allowing Janet and her doctor friend to make their way to Sarah Akinyi Oloo's place. Soon, they came across my youngest sister lying down with her smartphone in her dead hands. She was on the surface trying to call Janet when a cardiac arrest attacked her- according to the doctor.
I am back in Sagana. Over a telephone conversation, my sister Janet said it was to early to plan everything. The community in Durban, especially members of her church had rallied in support and were busy discussing what to do. My family in Luanda had come to my father's house and offered me their condolences expressing their shock of a tragedy happening on the same day as my auntie's funeral. The local Anglican church had come to offer their prayers outside my father's house with some wondering what has happening to my immediate family coming on the heels of the death from breast cancer a few months ago of my twenty two year old third year Moi University niece, daughter to my younger brother and now my auntie and my sister.
That, Jukwaa Famiy and my online friends is the information I wanted to convey.
Sincerely,
David Onyango Oloo
But this news I am about to convey though ostensibly "Personal" is very POLITICAL for I believe with the FEMINISTS of the world that the personal is very political although the originators of the phrase my have had a very different concept in their minds.
On Saturday, May 27th 2017, I was in Iiro, South Ugenya to bury Ms. Agnes Othieno, my 95 year old aunt and eldest sister to my late dad Richard Achwal Oloo and daughter of my grandmother, the late Doris Awiti and my late grand father Isaya Oloo. She was the mother of seven daughters and sons among them Mrs Margaret Amondi Makanyeng, a psychiatrist at Kenyatta National Hospital and Patricia Akinyi, a radiologist at the same medical institution.
The funeral ended without incident around three p.m. and I traveled to my rural home in Luanda Kagina located in Kisa Location, Kwhisero in Kakamega County though my K'Agola clan is from Gem just literally across the border in Gem, Siaya County.
I was getting ready to travel back to Sagana, Kirinyaga County when I heard some sobbing and wailing in my own homestead. I was astounded because we knew of no deaths in my neighbourhood. On getting out of my father's house I was surprised to see my very own youngest sister Ruth Awuori Oloo, screaming and crying. I inquired what has happened. She too had been at the funeral in far off Ugenya with me.
"Please change! Akinyi is no more!"
At first I did not know which Akinyi she was referring to-whether it was one of my three first cousins who I had personally seen at the funeral only an hour ago or somebody else.
"It is OUR Akinyi!"-referring to my own second last born sister that Awuori immediately follows who is in Durban, South Africa.
"But you just spoke to her telling her and sister Janet how auntie's funeral went", I protested.
Well, Janet's first born daughter Jennifer,(named after our late mother Jennifer Siare) called me from Paris, France where she is studying to tell me that her auntie had collapsed and died ten minutes ago, according to her mother Janet.
It was left to my sister Janet Adhiambo Okeyo who is my immediate follower to fill in the blanks.
Apparently, earlier in the day, my sister Sarah had complained of some pain caused by what turned out to be a blood clot which had left her with a swollen knee. Janet has a South African friend who is a a medical doctor that she immediately contacted and soon joined her in Janet's car making their way to Sarah's Durban apartment. Janet buzzed the intercom but there was no response. Finally, a neighbour opemed the entrance to the building allowing Janet and her doctor friend to make their way to Sarah Akinyi Oloo's place. Soon, they came across my youngest sister lying down with her smartphone in her dead hands. She was on the surface trying to call Janet when a cardiac arrest attacked her- according to the doctor.
I am back in Sagana. Over a telephone conversation, my sister Janet said it was to early to plan everything. The community in Durban, especially members of her church had rallied in support and were busy discussing what to do. My family in Luanda had come to my father's house and offered me their condolences expressing their shock of a tragedy happening on the same day as my auntie's funeral. The local Anglican church had come to offer their prayers outside my father's house with some wondering what has happening to my immediate family coming on the heels of the death from breast cancer a few months ago of my twenty two year old third year Moi University niece, daughter to my younger brother and now my auntie and my sister.
That, Jukwaa Famiy and my online friends is the information I wanted to convey.
Sincerely,
David Onyango Oloo
