Kwach Yambo's Last Journey in Gaia

1. At 4:30 AM on 25 July 2015, I so cheerfully and optimistically posted this tweet "#ObamaInKenya: Me & Mine (Wife, Daughter), the boys being out n about, toasted #AirForceOne's landing in #Nairobi w/ a glass of wine. Cheers". Not long after, I tweeted: "We're v. pleased about it. The boys too. No reason to feel otherwise, or hide the fact!"

Little did I know that, even as I celebrated, things had already gone horribly, horribly wrong for my family. Kwach died that night in a terrible car accident in Thika, but the news did not reach us until just before noon on July 25th. 

I posted these tweets on July 26th to document the horror:

1. "1. #Kwach, 1 of the boys, isn't ever coming home. He died in a car accident in #Thika abt six hrs after #Auma entered #TheBeast"

   "It's hard. We're feeling the pain right now. For #Kwach. For us. With the extended family. His friends. His siblings' friends"  t eve

We've been mourning. A collective sort of mourning inside Kwach's amazing network and circles of durable friendships. Friends I personally didn't even know, and couldn't have imagined, he had. More friends than I ever had, 

Now, as we prepare to bury Kwach the networker this Saturday (8th August), I/we share with all those who knew and cherished him, and who remember him and who will miss him just as fondly as we do and will, this text: Kwach's Funeral and Burial Programme


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