By Okot p' Bitek with Song of Lawino. "Periodically each woman sees a moon, and when a young girl has seen it for the first time it is a sign that the garden is ready for sowing, and when a gardener comes carrying two bags of live seeds, and a good STRONG hoe, the red soil swells with a new life." Hongera SHISHI kwa yote mawili ila isiwe mimba fupi.