The flood tide that is the Christmas season meant travelling upcountry, family gatherings, cooking different meals or cooking meals differently, eating together, and winding down the year in the warmth of family for many Kenyans as they grew up.
These are traditions that for generations, typified Christmas. With every generation taking them up and passing them down further. But those living and working in countries miles away, them that can’t travel home for the holidays, it is a season of longings and nostalgia, fond memories of home elevated by a global-scale celebratory mood, and reinvention.
