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UKAMBANI VILLAGE WITCHCRAFT With the mention of Kamba, what comes into your mind? Beautiful girls, energetic women, witchcraft and?? Kamba land. My placental burial home, my mother land. In as much as being a kamba makes me proud, rumour of days has made me insecure into believing that Kamba land holds so much witchcraft activities Out of the three counties in Ukambani ( Kitui, Machakos and Makueni), Kitui is believed to be the leading when it comes to this. It is not rare to have one ex communicated from society from suspicion of witchcraft in some parts of Kenya, but not so in Kitui. Here, witchcraft is very popular and deep seated. In this hot and vanishing climate, people's property is highly respected and no one or rarely do they steal. As it has been witnessed before, when someone steals from a Kamba, bees reside in one of their body parts, painful, right? This is called paying dearly for theft. Again we've seen people with inflated body bellies after stealing from these ...

SILENT DISASTER Concern grows after alarming suicide cases amongst young teenagers arise. The green app has exposed so many deaths over the past three months in the country. The number has shockingly increased in these past three months. Recently, we've seen so many posts of dead teenagers of which the main cause of their demise is not well highlighted. Normally when someone takes away their life, it is rumoured that maybe they had a mental breakdown and depression. No reason seem to be false however, a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) said, " suicides happen impulsively in moments of crisis with a breakdown in the ability to deal with life stresses such as: i. Financial problems ii. Relationship break up iii. Chronic pain and illness Unfortunately, suicide prevention measures have often failed even with increased number of groups, campaigns and organizations to curb depression, which is imagined as the leading cause of the reported suicides Eddy Kimani,...