hakuna ya ku pembeleza

no painkillers, no laughing gas, no epidurals.....
1971 high noon sun....
beautiful countryside, no roads in sight, knee high maize fields, banana trees, pregnant woman tilling the field...
suddenly....a sharp pain...and out pops baby happy....her mum still holding the beans she was harvesting...
holding her baby....she calls out to her husband....who gets a neighbour to come and cut the umbilical cord with a wembe (razor blade)...
walking home....the duties of daily life go on....and two weeks later, she is back in the field working the land....surrounded by the sounds of chickens, cows and goats....how times have changed!!!!!!!!
hakuna ya ku pembeleza (no pampering )....

(-: Rhoda :-)