Nyang'ori...

Nyangori was a nickname for the Terik community derived from the Luo community, because the Terik, being pastoralists used to invade the Luo areas for pasture during the drought seasons of yonder. On the way back home, the Terik would bring with them cowpeas, a crop known to the Luo people as “ngor”. Hence the name Nyangori was derived from the word “ngor” literarily meaning the people of the cowpeas.
As at now, the name Nyangóri is synonimous with the Pentecostal Bible College and Nyangóri Boys high school. I schooled in Nyangóri. This school will hold a graeter part of my youthful memory. Nyangóri is located on the Kisumu-Kakamega road, at Kiboswa. Kiboswa is a unique market, it is located in three provinces, Nyanza, Rift Valley and Western. Nyangóri high is on the western part of the market.
The area is located in a place where water scarcity is the norm. The people around the school are used to dry taps, mostly from December to March every year. The water supply of the area comes from a far off place, Sosian, which happens to experience drought during this period and hence lack of the basic commodity both to the local community and the school. As students in this school, we had to learn the art of survival. At times, whe the situation was too extreme for the school to cop, we were allowed to leave the school every evening to go and take a shower and collect some water some few kilometers away. We used to love these trips as they freed us from the school authorities and we had plenty of time to socialize with the villagers and the girls from the neighborhood school, Kapsengér, who were also facing the same situation. Back to school, we carried buckets full of water, but we could only manage to reach our dormitories with have the buckets as the route of passage was hilly and covered with stones all over.
Washing of clothes in school was only done once. There was a 'Supermarket', the cloth-lines, where the older students could literally go over and exchange their dirty shirts with clean ones. This affected the form ones so much as their shirts were still new and presentable, espencially during scholl outings and visits.
Cups and plates were never claned, they were wiped off after every meal by use of tissue paper. The buckets where the water was stored were multipurpose, for washing, bathing and storagem for drinking water.
Free-walks on sundays after every fortynight were the best thing to have happened to us. This was the day for visiting the market and looking for mandazis, omena and fish. Those from around the school were prohibited as they had a tendency to go home yet no one was allowed to visit home at such a time.
Church services were great, especially the ones where we had to go over to the mission's boma church. We would scrum our way out the tiny gate and through the church doors, knoking over the old mwn and women who were just leaving the church after their morning service.
Other than the occasional music on the school cassete payer, entertainment was a boring event; these saturday evenings were characterized with too much naija stuff. Those who felt they could not take this, had the option of either being in class for the evening or goin to the saturday prayer sessions by the christian union. After ten in the evening, the form ones and twos could be physically shown the door outta the entertainment hall, ehich also served as a dining hall, to leave the 'mature' students for the occasional porn movie one had carried over.
Friday evenings were a nioghtmare for the form ones. Each and every form one was to produce a bucket full of water, no matter the season. The dorn captains made sure the water is available for use for cleaning the dorm in readiness for the dorm check up, conducted every saturday, and the results of the top dorm announced at the assembly every monday....
to be ontinued....