If we start today’s chat with the
word Vespinae, would you, instantly, get what I am talking about? It would be wrong
to suppose it is reference to the small motorbike called Vespa. Sorry, no pun
intended but, Vespa is a joke compared to what Vespinae actually means. That dear friends, is the scientific name
of Nyigu or Manyigu in Kiswahili. The no -nonsense insect bit me when I was a
child growing on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. I might have been eight or
nine AND funnily, I still remember the pain. Vividly. Like it was five minutes
ago. So intense that I should compare the experience to a bullet wound; which
not many of would like to try out, nor imagine.
