mine is a nickname i got from my 'wanyore' rugby club mates just before this century(millenium) started. When I started playing club rugby for them - I was one aerobically fit guy - very fast and very fit and a good tackler to boot. I could run like forever and this shocked my clubmates. During that time I used to live on my parents farm in Bahati outside the city and made my way to the club from what was then a very far place, I never hid where I was from - In trying to explain my fitness, my coach once cracked a joke that I got that fit from ridding bikes full of 'sukuma wiki','ndumas', 'ngwacis' e.t.c. from the farm to town (any one from naks ever seen those guys ridding their bikes to town?). the joke was that i would drop my wares in the market, ride to the club, hide my bike and come play rugby the later ride my bike back home in the evening. the name iterated between 'maskuma', 'mangwachi' and 'manduma' for quite sometime until they settled for 'maskuma' - chege 'maskuma' was my name. I had known from zamani that resisting nicknames only makes them harder to get rid of. the gentlemen we were playing with stopped calling me 'maskuma' and started calling me 'shefie' from 'shepard' but i loved maskuma more. I have since then used that nickname in all online communication with a 'U' added. The only popular forum that i know a masukuma is not me is instagram - there i go by the name 'the real masukuma'. So in the words of Mojo Jojo
Quote:That's all just well enough, because in reality there is only room enough in this world for one Masukuma. One shall be the number of Masukumas in the world, and the number of Masukumas in the world shall be one. Two Masukumas is too many, and three is right out. So the only Masukuma there is room for in the world shall be me.
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