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Rain, rain...

Stories of Italians in Kenya by a resident

23-06-2009 by Fedele Turci L'Odoard

I do not think Kenyans know the rhino that my grandmother sang me as a child: "it rains, it rains, the cat does not move, the candle is lit, it is said good evening ..." also because here the candles cost and are consumed in Hurry, better the kerosene lantern (hoping that some ecocomplete soon arrives, and not just the wealthy of the West).
But most importantly, who does this happen if the cat does not move?
Do you know how many things and people in Africa are real estate?
Surely it would have more effect to translate Jovanotti's song, which also sounds like a rhyming: "It rains, you hear it raining, madonna as it rains, you feel like it's down."
Yeah, because the first great rains of these days come as if the good God had overthrown all the baskets of his heavenly laundry.
Malindi is transformed into a small Finland of puddles, useful to verify the tightness of its own automobile, engaged in gymnastics to avoid them. On foot, on the other hand, try to avoid the splashes of the matatu that spend one hundred and twenty an hour in the full inhabited center.
This year, however, there is a great news: in the inner streets of the town, the unpaved ones that usually fill with lakes and rivers that can not be drained, have appeared piles of earth and stones, cumuli at the edge of the street ready for To be used to cover large pits.
With the result that remain as a sea-rocks, slightly submerged, and when one passes by the car, it encircles the stone that destroys the oil sump. Africa's drawbacks, it will be said ... I am curious to see this year as it will present the roundabout, the famous roundabout in Malindi, after two or three uninterrupted days of rain. Last year, the tuk-tuk seemed like thoughts, and some Islamic drivers were wearing the typical horizontal striped t-shirt. I also heard of flying "monas, to finger that", which I do not think swahili.
For the rest, well understood, I love the rainy season, I love the scent of plants that receive their lifeblood, statuary of things (and maybe even cats, who knows) and the everyday life of people who do even more Quiet and careless of where the world is going.
Here's my rhyme: "It rains, governments look a little like everyone else, the world is ruined and I'm going to make a tusker lager to Majengo."
It is not rhyme and does not sound very musical, but it's the only thing I'm singing ... and doing!

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