Mbiuni
An African village

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Mbiuni, An African village
Mbiuni is a village locatad at the Machakos province in Kenya, the area is inhabited by the third most numerous tribe, the Kamba, despite that, there are few differences to other villages, even other tribes, not only in Kenya but all around the black Africa, the inhabitants of Mbiuni has lack of power light, water and any sort of infrastructures, daily they have to consume their food because the impossibility to conserve in refrigerators.
Scarcity water is severe in Mbiuni so women as well as children waste the most of the day fetching water on dry brooks, they excavate holes until an unhealthy water arises, it is cause, in many occasions, of diseases like chorela or malaria, when finish, they walk back carrying up the heavy recipients full of water, sometimes they must walk for Kilometers before they arrive home it is an arduous daily task.
Children go to schools which has dust grounds, desks with woodborer , most of them shoeless, bored scholastic clothes, their heads shaved to avoid lice, but also always their eternal smiles.
Sunday the most of the Kamba get dressed in their best clothes, they go to church, is holiday, they sing and celebrate their faith. Monday is the market day, fruits, chicken and hens, knifegrinders and shoemakers, colorful without limits in disordered stands, something similar to a village center, distrustful glances against the intruder, but, finally laughs, Africans laugh.
Then night falls and I go back home along wooded roads, when I raise my eyes to the sky, I can see an infinite and shiny cupola of stars, of course, African stars too

PHOTO - ESSAY