Sakwa Kamnara: An encounter with my kin as I traced my roots.
In the month of October or thereabouts, I was honoured by a visit from Joseph Kwaka who had asked if I was in the village and came by. It was during lunch that we had in our village family home that I was able to get a few snippets of my lineage. I have traditionally been able to go back only three generations from my late dad’s. I have always known that I am son of Arodi K’Ochola who was the son of Ochola K’Owade and I would run out of air at that point as I would not be able to connect my great grandfather to the Kamnara roots that I claim lineage of. And no, Kamnara has nothing to do with ‘come nearer’ as has been rumoured over the years. We are descendants of Minara. Jaduong’ Kwaka as I call him invited me for a meeting on 27 th December 2024 that would host as many as possible of the lineage of Minara our forefather. I was hesitant to commit to attending the meeting as I was hosting my former colleagues the day after the proposed meeting date. He indicated rather c...
