We call market

We call it market
A mixture of non complete storey buildings scattered in a bushy environment and several mud walled rooms oh! ‘rental shops’ spread around, public land in the middle and at the peripherals of the market; a primary school, catholic church, polytechnic and the flowery Rongo university college in that order. The market covers a space of around one hundred square meters. Kitere market, located in a highest point of the hill famous for its small scale gold mining.
Despite the huge population presence in the hill from the university and the many institutions in the area, the market has refused to let go of its old ways and embrace development quickly spare for a few established ones.
Water they call it life. Here if you live in this market you have to acknowledge it’s a problem, we depend on borehole water for doing everything clean water to drink is a problem. One has to wake early in the morning to make it to the borehole before basins ‘queue’ to quench their thirst (filled with water). The lack of piped water can be attributed to the terrain it’s hostile with many steep valleys and the fact that it’s located in an hill justifies it all
The landlords’ here are arrogant the high demand for accommodation houses both for students and residents has made it easy for them to set and manipulate rent rates at will. The least priced hostel per semester is eight thousands five hundred shillings. Here it’s mandatory to live alone because you have to dig deeper into your limited pocket money and get away with four to five thousand per month for a single room which is not fair even to parents leave alone us.
The shop keepers knows nothing but business for instance despite the presence of Sony sugar company three miles away a kg of sugar cost one hundred and twenty shillings whereas a person living in meru buys the same at ninety shillings in regardless of a sugar company. This is just an example almost all the commodities sold in this market are inflated in pricing.
All these challenges are eye opener to investors, there is plenty f opportunities in this place we call market. The demand for hostels is ever increasing overnight, supermarkets to not exploit us if no subsidy cybercafés with high speed internet, serious stationers and even building companies because there is huge development opportunity within.
I would like also the Migori county government to step up and awaken this sleeping giant, by starting from the ground; help clear bushes, garbage collection and sewerage.
Writer: Lawrence Mugendi
Student at Rongo university studying
BSc in communication and public relations.

Love

Love
Love is a variety of different feelings, states and altitude that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. Biologist Jeremy Griffith defines love as ‘unconditional selflessness’
The research about love was left in the hands of creative writers to explain what really love is but scientific research about love increased enormously twenty years ago. Many scholars from the fields of Psychology, Anthropology, Neuroscience and Biology have gone into deeper extents to explain love such as Dr. Helen Fisher, John Lee, Robert Sternberg and Zick Rubin
The ancient Greeks indentified four forms of love
Storge. Kinship/familiarity love
Philia. Friendship love
Eroes. Sexual/romantic desire kind of love
Agape, self emptying or divine love
Kinship love is natural affection such as the intimate bond between a mother and her child and vice versa. Studies have shown we are all attracted to what is familiar to us, and that exposure to certain people will increase our attraction towards them. If a kinsman is hurt literally we tend to feel the pain than if it was a total stranger. Many studies base on these ancient forms of love to explain love.
Psychologist John Lee categorized love in six major types. Eros; this is an erotic desire for an idealized other same as sexual desire in the ancient Greeks. In his research Zick Rubin states this as intimacy whereas Helen fisher calls it lust. Lust is the feeling of sexual desire; lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. Intimacy according to Zick Rubin intimacy is sharing private thoughts, feelings, and desires with the other person. Erotic lover choose their lovers by intuition. The erotic lover can be perceived as a hopeless romantic
Ludus; ludic lovers are players