Malaika(Engel Kalema). The mute, shy 🙃☺️ storyteller

Blue 💙;oceanic, intuition, depth) Red ♥️; passion, energy) Green💚;youth, vitality) Gold💛;divinity, perfection). I stare at my dresses one after the other. Which do I pick? I can’t pick. My king,my mister will appear in a few, it’s almost nine o’clock. Blue,no,red would really… He knocks. I look through my bedroom window,peep through the curtain , his scepter is golden today. I put on my dress,gold, that’s the one I pick I rush towards the door  Opening it, his restless look turns into a smile. “You look perfect” he says. I smile as he takes my hand. I gracefully walk in sync with his marching. Close beside him, like an extension of his accessories but a little more than that. Like those shiny pendants of old that had magic inside them..  Refusing to just exist as mere decorations, equal measure beauty and charm,  looking beauteous on its owner,,, I complete him.   I feel his being rest calmly in my presence.His inner lion knows ...

Rhumba music, after so many years of being one of the most platonic, almost forgotten about genres in East Africa,has seen a massive reintroduction with artistes in this age trying to do renditions of old Rhumba hits and others like Diamond Platnumz featuring popular Rhumba hitmakers in their songs , like Koffi Olomide in his hit song Achii. For the longest time I would use the terms Rhumba and Lingala interchangeably,I don't know,maybe because to me they pretty much meant the same.My day of enlightenment would come unexpectedly as I described to a friend how I preferred  Congolese Lingala to Kenyan Lingala only to be met with a rather long lecture on how there is no such thing as Kenyan Lingala because  Lingala is a Congolese language that features in most Rhumba songs.Alas!The many people I had misled.I hope they all get to read this and make that correction for themselves too🤭. Congolese Rhumba , despite my being Kenyan, is my favorite with artistes like Faya T...