A quasi-religious Kikuyu tune, Ndahuyukite ngiuma kwa Waiin’ga is popular again. It translates to “By the time I left Waiinga’s place, I had nothing left”. The soloist in a recent remix proclaims, pausing at appropriate intervals to let the revelers join him in completing the lyrics.
One account of the history of this tune, told by my friend Professor XN Iraki, is that Waiinga was a real medicine man who lived near Tumu Tumu in Nyeri, a little over 100 years ago.
