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Josiah Mwangi Njema, dead and set to be buried tomorrow.[File, Standard]
One of the important women in my life lost her dad this week. When she phoned on Sunday morning, I knew instantly that that was the call I had dreaded over the last five months.
The man in question was pretty much a 21st century man, even though he was born at the beginning of the last century. He started his formal education at Buxton Primary Schooling in Mombasa, where a doting an uncle had taken him.
Ultimately, he would join the Alliance High School in Kikuyu and subsequently, Kagumo. He did well enough to join the University College, as the University of Nairobi was known then, but the pull towards work saw him join private firms, including The Standard. He diligently raised his family, taking them with him to Nairobi and Mombasa, where he was deployed. The norm and custom in that age was to leave women and children in the village.
