What Was Ailing Our Mothers?
What I have now realized is that those women were never sick. Not if you consider the huge amounts of food they cleared in one sitting, the unthinkable…
The Room
After entering the gates of the hospital, there was a less traveled road that led to a room with very high tiny windows. The lawns around it were…
Death In Gikuyu
The only time we heard people talk of death was when our parents tuned into the Voice of Kenya (VoK) Central Station. That was the station on VoK…
Finally Understanding Death
Hearing an obituary announcement on the radio was the closest we ever got to death that happened in a distant land we did not know much about. The…
Inferiority Complex: OlKalou
My definition of this is simple: Feeling less than …… We all have a bit of it, or there are some situations we step into and immediately it…
Inferiority Complex: High School
The same thing happened when we went to high schools in Central Province and met kids who grew up in Nairobi and other big towns like Nyeri and…
Mother on Visiting Day
Picture for a moment my mother from the Settlement Scheme of OlKalou visiting me in school some 180 kilometers away. Her journey will have started early in the…
Inferiority Complex: Lessons Learnt
The circumstances above taught me a very worthy lesson. The town people we envied in OlKalou were really beneath us economically, and we were their envy but we…
Celebrate Who You Are TODAY
My conclusion on this subject is this: embrace whatever you have and be proud of who you are today. I am not advocating for complacency by any chance.…
Women Group: A Helping Hand
After OlKalou families settled in their new homes and they started getting comfortable with each other, our mothers got together and formed a women’s group in the early…