HENRI BOMA REPORT

THE MWAMOGUSII COMPOUND

THE MWAMOGUSII COMPOUNDT

It started on the 3 April,2020.It was established because they wanted to preserve the culture of the Abagusii and to teach competence based curriculum lessons.Henri gardens and cultural resort centre derived its name from the father of the director of the resort whose name is Henri.The resort entails a museum,bird sanctuary,biogas plant,fish pond,bee keeping,swimming pool,indigenous plants and competence based curriculum programs.The importance of keeping the Gusii culture is to remain relevant and to preserve it for future generations.

THE MWAMOGUSII COMPOUND

It entailed:

Egesa which is the father’s house,Esaiga is the boy’s house,Irungu is a place where girls slept,Obweri is the cow’s homestead.

In the past a Gusii man was using sticks to count his animals.Aman would know if one of his cows was missing if one stick would remain in his hand after all the cows had entered the Obweri.

INSIDE THE ENYOMBA

At the center of the ENYOMBA there was a hole (Egetukora) which had a center pot (Ekeguru) supported by Entereko (where the pot was kept) .The pot contained alcohol (Ebusa) and old men used to sit around the it to drink the Ebusa using the Gusii straw (Orokore) which had a filter called Egeseso.