Kenya 5

Listen to Kenya 5, a 24-year-old woman from Koru, Kenya. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 24

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/07/1993

PLACE OF BIRTH: Koru, Ahero, Kenya

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Luo/Kenyan

OCCUPATION: farmer and actor

EDUCATION: form 4

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She speaks Luo, Swahili, and English.

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RECORDED BY: Betty Moulton

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 28/06/2017

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Uh, I was born in a village called Koru. It is in Ahero, Muhoroni subcounty, Kisumu county. I’m the third born of seven. Uh, my mom and dad has passed away, so I am total orphan, but I really manage to be, uh — to like the way I am. And at the moment I am staying with my aunt. She is the one who is doing everything to me. And I really like farming, uh, doing drama, and, uh, also playing around with small, small kids. …

In a farm, I normally plant rice. It has really helped me. Like last year, I tried to do it; that was my first time to, to do it, and I really — some good amount of money that’s makes me to pay my, our last-born daughter a school fee of 15,000 and, uh, try, uh, doing some, and take some little to my younger brother, who is also in a secondary school. So I’m very much happy.

Then at this moment, I have at least another one at 5,000, which, um, I plow it last week on Sunday. Then I’m going to start making nursery and some funny, funny things that — needs that’s many people don’t know, like making the nursery, planting the rice. So it’s really take time. Mm, it’s take three months, then you have it. So it is just — I feel it is easy, more than anything else. Yeah.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Betty Moulton

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/09/2021

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