Introduction
How does it feel to have the same damn thing in your diet over and over? And how about when it’s the only thing you can afford? Well, this’ what I had to put up with the entire period of my childhood growing up in the village.
I am Hudson Shiraku, a 32 year old young man from western Kenya whose nickname growing up was Mabuni. Mabuoni in my native dialect translates to sweet potatoes and I earned this name because we eat boiled sweet potatoes every day. We eat them boiled for breakfast, eat them boiled for lunch and eat them boiled for supper. As kids; we eat them raw or roasted playing in the fields. My friends taunted me that my intestines would turn as yellow as sweet potatoes. My primary school classmates avoided sitting next to me because I emitted pungent fumes characteristic to bad stomach…
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