IT IS NOT everybody’s idea of a cracking yarn. Grace, a farmer’s wife, fails to boil her surplus milk and it ferments; her children drink it and develop diarrhoea and vomiting. The owners of the livestock depot misuse a veterinary drug and inadvertently kill 400 chickens. The local women’s group decides to rear a calf.
The action is from a radio soap, Tembea Na Majira (TNM, or “Move with the Times”), which goes out on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation’s Swahili service every Thursday night. In Kenya, 71 per cent of the population claim to own a cow, and TNM is…
