Keeping up with the Mbotelas: Impressing the Empress

The Mbotela’s modest stone house peeped behind guards of tall palm trees, the huge fireball poised in the sky trying its best to take a better look at the house to no avail. All was quiet in the homestead. Mrs. Mbotela was away for a Chamaa meeting, the younger kids Ndoro and Nyawa were on a school field trip. Her daughter Sidi was away in Nairobi while Juma, his eldest son, an army Sergeant, was out of the country on a peace keeping mission.