Growing up on the slopes of Mount Elgon in the small village of Namwela, chicken had widely become a staple for her community.

A meal was considered incomplete without a chicken wing or a leg. And even though the imondo (gizzard) was reserved for the men, Sheila Ommeh loved the leg. It was, for her, more delicious. That was then.

Today Ms Ommeh religiously cooks chicken every week. Her son David Omondi has a big appetite for the cuisine. For the love of the bird, Ms Ommeh would like to raise chicken in Nairobi but space would not permit. Back at her grandmother’s home in Bungoma, she has reared 300 chickens of indigenous breeds. And not for commercial purposes.

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