Earlier this week, I came across an interesting conversation on social media that was started by Kamau James Waweru. He wanted to know why chamas made up of cousins rarely succeed, no matter how many times they are revived. It is a subject I touched on sometime back, though I specifically focused on the gradual death of extended family get-togethers. Giving reasons why this was so, many say that this coming apart was due to the fact that they had inherited their parents’ grudges, which were mostly pegged on land, though the term, ‘the curse of inherited land’ would be apt. There was also talk of well-off families that looked down on their poorer cousins and wanted little to do with them.

Source: Daily Nation October 20, 2024 03:31 UTC