I completed this work in the field. I use nature as my main source of inspiration and I try to capture what is in front of me. I'm inspired by artists like Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, who painted the landscape so well.
With the conquest of East African peoples by Germany in Tanganyika and by the British in Kenya, the realities of colonial politics led to further secularization and, along with it, indigenization of thematic material in utenzi poetry. Utenzi wa…