Following the death of Kikuyu secular music legend Joseph Kamaru two weeks ago, many of his music tracks that he composed at his early stages of music have since resurfaced.
A classical example is one song that he recorded with his sister Catherine Muthoni titled 'Celina Hingura Murango'.
The song which was composed in the 1960s gives an intriguing snapshot of the challenging urban life then which has apparently not changed an inch as we talk today.
Kamaru in the song describes how the issue of single rooms came into being. The rural men moved to towns in search of greener pastures while leaving their wives and children behind and, therefore, a single room sufficed them.
And since these men made rare visits to the village, perhaps twice or thrice in a year, Kamaru, notes that a new breed of women (sex workers) emerged in urban areas to meet the 'sexual needs' of these men.
However, when the village wives came to learn about this state of affairs, they decided to follow their husbands to the town single rooms not wanting to lose their husbands to the plying sex workers.
But this wasn't the end of this particular marital problem. The hunter (wife) after moving to towns now turned to be the hunted.
Young men who had no wives in the town neighbourhoods would ply on these town newcomers after their husbands left for work.
Kamaru in this particular song records an instance where a big quarrel emerged in Makadara when one man came home unexpectedly and found his wife with a young man.
After calling the wife severally asking her to open the door, he opts to open the door forcefully and finds the young man under the bed.
The poor fella is almost knifed to death save for the headman who arrives on time and saves him.
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