KAMBA RIDDLES

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Riddles (Ndae)

Kungula kangala kithembeni?
Kungulu kambagal (noise) in the drum?
Mutwaano wa mbia
A wedding of rats
Nayiatha na kaluma ndiu ndukakwata?
It’s in space, and you can’t touch the eagle eater?
Ndata
A star
Kaveti kaa kanini kakilitye mwenyu kuua?
This small woman cooks better than your mother?
Nzuki
A bee
Kikungu muingo?
Dust on the other ridge?
Nzana isembee mwana
A monitor lizard running for its child
Masee ma asa meanene?
My father’s two equal calabashes?
Itu na nthi
Earth and sky

SOURCE : http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/tribes/kamba/proverbs.htm


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