Mama Sharif has been ailing a lot in the recent past. Most people think it's just flu and that there is an outbreak. Others think not. She has been ailing since the 'sick' driver was buried. Rumour has it that she was too attached to the man which explains the effect his death had. She is not the type to get attached though. She is no one and everyone's person. She believes in giving it while they still want it.
Mama Sharif cooks outside the gate. Or she cooks at home and comes to sell food outside the campsite gate. Either way, she is a mama chakula, one of the clean ones at the gate. Many mechanics prefer her food to that of Lola, Pendo, Mama Katambi and the new one who everyone thinks she talks too much. More often than not, the mama chakulas at the gate belong to one of the workers. That's how they get themselves living so close to the campsite gate and doing business with the workers. Julia, famously known as Mama Sharif is a typical Swahili woman, I mean she is a great cook, she wears those long respectful attires despite not being a Muslim and she knows how to work her waist without even trying. Men want to be with her and women want to be her. A few men have tried. Actually most men have been with her and they keep desiring to be with her. 
Wamaku, the famous foreman, is the most recent person to have 'hit it.' He cant stop talking about it. At the maskani, that's all they talk about. Who did who, how she was, who should go next and that kind of man talk. I am pretty sure most people will think this is crap but hey, its construction. Wamaku talks about how Julia makes him feel good and important and how she whines her waist when they are in the act. He gives details that a normal person or a person who expects a rerun of the same to happen wouldn't. The other men agree in unison while they laugh out loud and hi-five each other. The women passing around the maskani are disgusted by this kind of talk but does their opinion matter? No.
Julia doesnt care about what other people say about her, I mean, its construction, people have to talk. She has been approached 'woman-to-woman' by several women, claiming she is stealing their men but her response is always that she has never tied a man on her back or locked her in house. They 'choose' her. And she shares with what she calls "the plight of an insecure married woman" saying, she would never be tied down to one man.
Wamaku's wife asked him about her, he denied and came to tell the folks about it. Mamaa also told him that the woman was ailing and wanted Wamaku to come clean and tell her if she had used protection. He escaped from home just before she got into his head but let me tell you Maina, he is tense.
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