Mutura, a Kenyan spiced goat sausage enriched with blood, has a complicated history and a controversial reputation. But to love mutura is to love the culture that surrounds it.
." Partaking in the glories of mutura means potentially acquiring a who’s who of bacterial killers.
It wasn’t always so. In its autochthonic form among the Agikuyu community, mutura occupied a place of honor, as, in talking about goat-eating traditions among the Agikuyu. Mutura was prepared only during special occasions, such as ruracios and weddings. It was prepared by men, but only women were supposed to eat it; the men would eat the other parts of the slaughtered animal.
Among the Gikuyu, mutura was not the only type of ndundiro, or sausage. The community also had ngerima, whose only dissimilarity with mutura was that one was made from the intestines while the other was made from the. Ngerima, shaped like an oval ball, was also known as"thenga twarie," which in the Kikuyu language means"Go away we want to talk privately.
Sometimes, one eats mutura along with kachumbari, a salad made from tomatoes, onions, chiles, and parsley, and sometimes not. But one will always ask for the mutura bit by bit. Like, twenty shillings, the first round; then, another twenty. And another. And another. This happens regardless of how much mutura one wanted to have beforehand. Clifton, a veteran mutura eater, tells me, "I always do ya twenty. Then add another. Sometimes mara. Nowadays they don’t do ten bob.
the product face this problem, and so, for them, mutura is mostly only served on special occasions, such as weddings."Niekee ya forty," I tell my mutura guy. I walk around my neighborhood in the evenings. All the mutura joints are closed. I call Clifton, ask him if he’s been able to eat mutura ever since all of this began.We talk some more. "Usually these guys open late in the afternoon, saa za ulevi," he says. "But now with the curfew, they have a very small window in which to sell the stock."
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