The Mwangi family, written down
Tea below the mountain, chapati for every visitor, and the first radio on the ridge.
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Wanjiru Mwangi
Wanjiru Mwangi (1941–2016), Cucu, farmed tea and coffee on the shamba below the mountain for fifty years, chaired the women's group, and cooked chapati for anyone who came up the path.
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The Shamba Below the Mountain
Five acres of tea and coffee in the hills near Nyeri, with a red house and a blue tin roof, and Mount Kenya behind it on the mornings it chooses to show itself.
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Cucu's Chapati and Sukuma Wiki
Soft, layered chapati and greens cooked with tomato and onion — what Cucu made for every visitor and every Christmas, rolled on the table outside the kitchen.
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The Ruracio, 1989
The dowry ceremony at the shamba in 1989, when Njeri's husband's family walked up the hill with gifts, and two families spent a day negotiating, eating and singing until they were one.
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Kamau Mwangi
Kamau Mwangi (1937–2005), Guka, taught at the primary school on the ridge for thirty years, owned the first radio for miles, and read the newspaper aloud to anyone who would listen.
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The Radio
Guka's radio — the first on the ridge — and the nights the whole hillside sat outside the house to listen.
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