Twende Twende: Stories For Children

  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