2018 is my comeback year as I explore more on both literature and poetry. I take an opportunity to explore this new novel by renown writer above an excellent story teller who is able to vividly tell the story of FGM and its evils in the Masaai community. Ole Kaleo, the main character of the novel returns home to Nasila after many years of living in Nakuru as a businessman. His wish is to establish himself back home among his people and be accepted completely as an elder of Nasila.
However this comes comes with alot of challenges. Having been away for many years the the culture of his people seems to demand much more than he had bargained for. His two daughters Taiyo and Resian have been raised up in an urban centre in Nakuru and have very little clue of the exorbitant demands of the Maa culture especially regrading the woman. They come to learn with shock that without going through the FGM they will never be accepted in Nasila. For them it s a practice they swear they cannot accept to go through for they are more focused on pursuing their university education and settling down as career women.
On the other hand, their father wants to establish himself as a successful businessman and a respected elder of the Nasila community. This unwavering ambition forces him to compromise the lives of his two daughtes and the whole family as he falls into a trap with Ole Sudori the villain in the novel. Things get out f control when he fails to deliver his daughter Resian to Ole Sudori as a wife and her daughter Taiyo is abducted and forcefully circumcised. Resian runs away from home and makes it to a rescue camp. Though the gilrs are finally rescued and their lives restored, it is never the same again for their family is totally disintegrated.
