Summary
A single makuti is a 24-inch stick dangling with palm fronds and secured with raffia. Bashora's entire clan seems to be employed in the village making these. One day he turned up at my mother's house on the beach in a convoy of motorised rickshaws carrying 58,000 makuti. These were loaded on to two juggernauts, together with hundreds of Sabaki river ironwood trees for the roofbeams, two Swahili doors and an old bath Mum was using for laundry, which I stole.
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Raising the Roof
Laikipia
What a privilege it was to have Bashora Baloni Dadi thatch our house on the farm with traditional coconut makuti. The first day we met on Kenya's coast Bashora said with sympathy, 'Building your house is like fight...See the full content of this document
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