Photo by mikoto.raw on Pexels.com Chaotic, loud, busy and cold were some of the words that would properly describe this particular Wednesday evening within the Central Business District (CBD) of Nairobi. One minute I would walk past two guys singing in unison and perfect rhythmic chants "Bei mia. Mia soh!" (The price is 100 shillings) [...]
Ugh! It’s My Birthday…Again
Photo by Edu Carvalho on Pexels.com A few days ago, I boarded an old, rusty matatu to get to town. Dissimilar to the normal pimped up rides (nganyas) that ply the CBD - Kiserian route, this bus was painted with the most boring colors - White and blue. No graffiti, no bold colors, no fancy [...]
Isn’t it Funny How…
Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Walking down a steep tarmacked road somewhere in Kangemi dressed in a grey skirt suit, grey turtle neck, a yellow blazer and some nude-colored doll shoes, I could not help but smile every time I thought of the events that brought me to that particular day. It was surreal. [...]
Dust To Dust
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com After three days into a hectic week that was filled with lots of books, notes, late nights, reading, library visits, cramming, coffee, early mornings and a poor appetite, I was more than ready to quit school and ask my parents to start up a business for me instead of wasting [...]
Lessons Learnt From A Terrorist
Photo by Pixabay on Freepik.com As he sat on his favorite chair in the living room on a chilled Friday night, Changawa Muthemba was elated that after a long and hectic week the weekend had dawned on him. As a family man in his early forties, Muthemba did not have an adrenaline-packed weekend planned ahead, [...]
The Unorthodox Treatment
It all begun with acidity in the abdomen which then shifted to pain on the left side of the stomach with incidences of nausea and difficulty in breathing. It then gradually progressed to blood in the urine and not being able to put a single spoon of food in her mouth. Wrong diagnosis, a lot [...]
See-sons
Photo by Nandhu Kumar on Pexels.com "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one...happy new year people!" shouted the hyped up MC while frantically running up and down the well lit up stage. The long awaited moment had finally arrived. As the confetti fell onto the ground and the music begun to play, [...]
Dear Mini-Me,
Photo by Viajero on Pexels.com Nine years ago, my late aunt got pregnant with her fourth child and my family was very ecstatic about this mother-hood journey aunty Vero was embarking on. You're probably wondering what the excitement was all about since this was not her first rodeo. She had walked this path before not [...]
Silent Screams
Photo by Farzad Sedaghat on Pexels.com Laying on the neatly made bed, both hands firmly tucked behind his head and legs spread across both edges of the bed, Kevin blankly stared at the white ceiling above his head, barely moving a muscle . For hours on end, the only movement Kevin made was shutting his [...]
Cut Them Some Slack
Photo by Oladimeji Ajegbile on Pexels.com After a long exhausting day of documenting interviews, the only thing that was running through my mind while walking towards the bus stop was "Sleep, sleep, sleep and sleep!" Have you ever had one of those days where you barely consider dinner as an option before bed because your [...]
Me? No Thanks
It's 6:00 a.m on a cold Sunday morning my older sister is halfway through the door dressed in a cute black dress with her favorite brown sling bag hanging on her right shoulder. "Agh! Wairimu it's never that serious, we do not always have to be on time. We will get there, eventually!" I yelled [...]
If Only…
Photo by Jess Bailey Designs on Pexels.com Sixteen young teenagers, eight boys and eight girls have evenly been spaced out in their classroom, a metre and a half between each student. Dressed uniformly in sky blue dresses with circular collar flaps (for the girls), navy blue shorts, sky blue shirts (for the boys) with red [...]
It’s The Waiting For Me
Slightly over two decades ago, a young teenage girl named Hadassa was finally in form four and she could not wait to sit for her final exam, get good grades, go to the best university, get a degree, get a good job, meet her prince charming, fall in love, go on romantic dates, get married [...]
It’s Tuta, All Over Again
For the first four years of my primary life, I never attended public school instead I studied from home under a system known as ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) which I found to be fun because I got to set my daily and weekly goals that I worked hard to achieve so that I go to [...]
X’es and Y’s
The 17th day of October, 2003 was a warm, relaxed Friday which I looked forward to because like every other school Friday, most kids in our neighborhood got released from school earlier than other days. I never fully understood the hype that came with being released a few hours earlier from school probably because my [...]
Potato, Potai-to
Yeeeiy! The mid-term break I had been anticipating for since the school term begun was finally here and I could not stay calm. It was only a week and a half in other people's eyes but as far as I was concerned, this break meant ten days of no early mornings, no uniforms, no freezing [...]
A Perfect World
In through the grey metallic gate they walked in one after the other, full of excitement and eagerness to see what the next few hours had in store for them. As they walked passed me, I could easily notice they were so different from each other. One was tall, dark, slender with short rugged hair [...]
Precious Energy
A few years ago, when I was in the sixth grade, my dad thought it was a good time to get my sister and I phones for us to easily communicate with them whenever we wanted to since we studied some miles away from them. Instead of us having to ask my relatives for their [...]
