YAKOBO

He was a short guy. He always walked barefooted cause his parents could not afford to buy a pair of shoes for him. IN FACT MOST of us didn't have school shoes, so we ended up having cracks in our soles. Somebody would joke that you could hide a five shilling coin in the cracks.
He was quite a talkative and argumentative boy. MOST of his arguments were done in vernacular, he was not that bright to argue in English or Swahili.
That did not deter him from inserting an English word in sentences during conversations even if the word was out of context or the tense was wrong.
He always had something or a story to tell.
His stories would always begin with the word ''kwattend'' meaning he attended a certain function, mostly a funeral.
His name was Solomon but we had nicknamed him Yakobo.
The nickname had come about in hilarious circumstances.
The deputy headmaster Mr. Mise who was also the religious education teacher had asked us to name Jesus's disciples, so every pupil had raised his or her hand.
Solomon not wanting to be left out raised his hand.
after several correct answers from the other pupils, it was now the turn of Solomon to state a disciple.
The teaching was mainly in English but Solomon decided to give his answer in mother tongue.
        ''YAKOBO'' meaning Simon Peter.
And soYakobo he became.