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TWENDE TWENDE RWANDA

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  TWENDE TWENDE RWANDA For Mothers And Their Daughters; For Mothers To Read To Their Daughters. In Rwanda, I learnt to love, and to love Adventure. Hi. My name is Kimu (Kimungu). I am an African girl, born in Kenya and my name means Divine/Of God in Swahili. Today I am very, very excited because my Ma and I are in an aeroplane. We have been flying for 1 hour 26 minutes from Nairobi, Kenya, and we are going to land somewhere special. Baba is not here with us but we still say, ‘Twende Twende’. swahili for, “let’s go, let’s go”. We are going on a journey! When we got off the plane, it was very warm and it felt a bit difficult to breath. Ma told me it’s because the air is humid, which means that it the air is hot, but also damp and sticky, with little wind. Ma also said it is because Rwanda is landlocked, which means that it’s completely surrounded by land and is not near any ocean or seas. We took a taxi to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, to the home of a local Rwandan family. The ci
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TWENDE TWENDE LAMU

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  TWENDE TWENDE LAMU (pronounced too-wen-deh ) For The Kenyan Child;YOUR Story. In Lamu, I learnt beauty. Hi. My name is Kimu and I am 5 years old. I am an African girl, born in Kenya, and my name is Swahili. Today I am very, very excited. My Ma woke me up very very early, which is okay because we are going somewhere special. It is still dark. The clock says 5:30am. I get dressed, eat breakfast and enter the car. We are going on a journey. Baba, Ma and I. Ma says we need to be at the airport by 7am. Dad says, “ Twende Twende ”. That’s Kiswahili for, let’s go, let’s go. Baba is always in a hurry. At the airport, we put our bags through a machine, and we are also supposed to go through the machine. This machine beeps if you have anything in your pockets that you’re not supposed to have, like metal. Baba removes his belt, Ma removes her jewelry; so I remove my plastic watch. “No, funny bunny,” Ma says, laughing, “plastic does not make the machine beep.” “ Twende Twende ,” Baba calls. Alwa
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