The story of Citimen
Msela thought about the famed cow walk among his people. Armed with a stick normally hanging around their necks, his people had walked about with their cows from one area to another as though God owed them a loan. And God had not paid that loan back for a while now. So they walked about with the arrogance that suggested that God was shy of meeting them in broad day light.
God comes to our place only in the evenings, they talked amongst themselves.
From region to region They chased water, grass and tried to escape the biting sun in the process. There was no license both existing or required , no regulation. There was simply nothing other than the Citimen and their cows. Some people called them Nomads, they called themselves Citimen.
They even formed a virtual triangle, involving the Citimen, cows, water and grass. The Luwero triangle series brought you a memorable man. He was named Forest Whitater. Whittaker won the Oscar academy award for a leading actor in Last King of Scotland. Remember that one? About the events that had befallen the Citimen.
Note:
The thing was acted in my town, right in front of my street, both in real life, in a book and then in a movie.
Right on the street where my uncle owned a bread shop. Across the same street was even the most famous Sax Pub. Sax pub was actually a trick which its owner a certain Citiman known as david Karinda had invented to sell sex. At Sax pub, a woman for a night would cost you a minimum of 10000 shillings, roughly six Canadian dollars.
Sax pub sold sex, but the owners played with the letters. The E was substituted by the A. That way Sax pub escaped being banned under the ambiguous public sex and obscenity law. The law was promoted by a recently born again Christian minister in the new government known as Nsaba Buturo. Before his rebirth, Buturo had been a torturous man in the Last King of Scotland Series. Oiling the machinery of Milton Obote in the 1980s."
Back to the cow walk,
Armed with his stick and the cows ahead of him, the Citiman schemed his way through the Luwero triangle. The beauty of plateaus and valleys in Kiboga and the tropical midnight summer nights Of Mubende.
A nomad, a peasant, he worshiped a cow. A Bihogo! With his cow and baseball bat shaped walking stick, he roamed the triangle. The stick was most times used in starting or settling violence.
During his walks with the cow, the Citiman was in the path of the threesome of the Last king of Scotland. In real life, book and movie. As if that was not enough, Citimen went further and brought you Hotel Rwanda. Have you heard of that one
The triangle dance pointing ever at water, grass and the sun left an indelible trail in the wake of the Citmen.
They figured out the weather seasons,
Without the radio and Internet network. Citimen simply had none.
in their daily tribulations Citimen communicated by howling on the top of their voices to connect day cattle herders with their colleagues searching for water in the valleys during scorching sunny days. If the cows were thirsty there would be no milk early or later in the day.
A world without milk was unimaginable.
Water was necessary but milk was crucial.
It was known as Kuhira.
Citimen did not quite figure out how other tribesmen in the triangle survived without milk. Milk was the oil. The oil of the body and the land. The citimen’s daily search for the water to make the milk was as fascinating as it was interesting.
For example in one instance, once every day, somebody in the family in charge of searching for water would howl from hills away to folks in search of water. They responded to the echo of each others voice. A non word battle of noise and the winds. They were known as Imiyaga.
If one tried to explain this incident to a person who grew up around an ipod, Internet, phone and facebook they would certainly make faces and turn eyes.
Beyond shouting at each other citimen walked.
In their footpaths in the valleys and shadows of Luwero Triangle they were met by even more weird people, as if having the unfortunate fate of living under the era and legacy of Last King of Scotland and Hotel Rwanda, was not enough.
