- Highlight some of the lesser known talents
- Convince some people who should be blogging to try their hand
- My next post will be ‘Ask M‘) where i will answer anything you ask. So ask now or forever hold your peace!
- Why not?
- Because I can
If you got an invite please let me know by the end of today if you’re in or not so that I can arrange for someone else.
Today’s guest chooses to call himself Chrenyan and is indeed one of my best friends. He’s not started blogging and I’m working tirelessly to get him to do just that.
Primary School Reminiscences: The Busting of Benson
By Chrenyan
Much has been said in other blogs about that bane of yesteryear’s Kenyan primary school student, the cane. It is my turn to weigh in with a couple of yarns from my own brief time in primary school about just what used to happen during a caning. The following tale is adapted from a real life occurrence that took place in 1993, with changes made to protect identities and to entertain the reader.
The scene is a primary school situated in what is called one of Nairobi’s leafy suburbs. Our story revolves around a young student we shall call Benson. Benson was a long, thin fellow with large eyes and a face that was capable of assuming a most lugubrious attitude in the face of Authority. He was, for the most part, a thoroughly agreeable fellow. But the chief characteristic of Benson’s character was its duality. Benson was riotous when Authority was absent and was transformed into a docile, timid schoolboy the minute a teacher walked in. His changeability was a source of great puzzlement for me when he joined the class in Standard Seven. But as I have since discovered, there is (or has been) a bit of the Benson in all of us. I digress. Continue Reading »