my ancestors have always talked with dread about this creature ... and when they talked about it ... especially my mum, and my 
aunt, and my grandma ... and even my great-grandma whom i had the chance to meet with very briefly ... they all had their encounters
one time in the distant past when the plains of uasin gishu were wild ... they spoke of a creature that came to village ... especially when men were away on a battle ... or wherever men went when they left women alone ... they remember well the devilish cry ... they sound of a tortured demon ... they remember the dark moonless night ... they remember the goat lying headless on the field ... they remember the sinister smell ... so strong that it could make one collapse ... they remember wearing pots on their heads when they wanted to go outside to take a leak outside ... for the creature so much desired to lop your head off that it keshad on your rooftopmy mother was among the last to spy upon it ... she believes the creature is now extinct ... she tells me that it loved living amongst bamboo trees... and that one leg was shorter than the other ... so that it limped when it walked ... my priest back in iten spoke about it too ... and you could have heard a pin drop as the horror of his tale stupefied his congregation ... and yes, i believe that the nandi bear once terrorised peeps ... call me a romantic but that is what explorers were dismissed as when they went to africa and spoke about gorillas .... a mere hundred years ago giant pandas were also dismissed as a chinese myth
and all in all, would it not be nice to know that there was or is a loneful creature out there that scientific description has not appreciated ... many cryptozoologists have tried to adequately describe it ... the kalenjins, luos and bagandas who lived alongside it say it looks like a giant baboon ... early colonialists in uasin gishu say it is more of a bear ... some say it is an undiscovered species of hyena ... though it has been discovered that africans, who have never seen a bear, will describe it as a giant baboon... so may be the chebakerit is truly a bear, an african bear ... a bear that could climb trees and spring away very fast with your head in its mouth ... your beheaded corpse waiting to be discovered by your terrified village folk...
there are many tales of encounters that my family shared with me ... tales calculated to make you jump right out of your skin ... i will share them with you one time ... as for now ... why don't you pay a visit to http://www.cryptozoology.com
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Hi mdkims,
I grew up in Kericho, Nandi Hills, Kericho and Eldoret and heard about the chebakerit too:)
glad to know that you heard about it too ...did the tales scare you? I used to shiver everytime i had something move in the dark
When I was in boarding school in the outback of Kalenjin land, there was a beast that would cry/wail/whatever everynight for a whole term outside our dorm. The locals called it the creature - we did not know what it was, but man did it scare us.
You took me back.
@uaridi ... we also had something of a creature that walked around camouflaging as a student with a blazer and skirt/trouser ...but yours must have been the Nandi Bear ... wish you had a camera for now you would be really famous!
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