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'Where's Koisa?': The Changing Mukogodo of Kenya |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Lee Cronk And Beth Leech |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 3,112 Words, 18,564 Characters |
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Koisa ole Lengei was born sometime in the 1920s in the Mukogodo hills of north-central Kenya. For the first few years of his life, he lived with his parents and sister in a cave, surviving on honey, wild plants, and wild animals as his ancestors had done for centuries.
The Mokogodo of Koisa's generation spoke a disappearing Cushitic language called Yaaku. In 1969, a German linguist, Bernd Heine, persuaded Koisa to accompany him to the University of Nairobi to teach him the old language. Koisa never came home. After a couple of weeks in Nairobi, he disappeared. Police searches turned up nothing, and Heine later hypothesized in a linguistics journal that Koisa had been killed by criminals.
Our interest in the Mukogodo began with Heine's article. We studied their history, customs,...
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...ee. He hopes they get more education than their mother, who did not attend school, and more than the five years of school he attended. Perhaps they will get jobs as teachers and, unlike the women of today, go beyond their homes in the hills. They already know more about the world beyond Mukogodo than their forefathers ever thought possible. They know that Koisa ole Lengei is not coming home.
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