My aunt – mama E, was the first one to take me to a Pentecostal church. This was over two decades ago when I was still in primary school and our parents still decided where we went to church. Mama E was not Mama E at the time. She was just Auntie X. Church attendance […]
Food & Medicine for the Displaced
“Hello and good morning. We are requesting 15 Volunteers at the branch urgently. If you are within town, confirm with me and let’s meet at the branch in the next 15. Thanks” The message alert came through the Nairobi Red Cross Youth Information Group on WhatsApp at 0940hrs. Members who were free started confirming their […]
Books & Clean Environments
20 or so volunteers walk in a single file crisscrossing the streets of downtown Nairobi towards Muthurwa Stage. Market people, shoppers, and load haulers occasionally interrupt the single file as the team try to catch pace and walk side by side with their best friends in the group. The destination is the Muthurwa Bus Terminal, […]
Heroes & Inspiration
They knew we would all be like, “my wife is my first hero, eeehhh, she makes me the best chapati ndengu in the world… Oh, then My dad, because he has taken me on uncountable road trips… nini nini…” Keep it outside the family, said the rules. So I had to remind myself what a hero is. […]
Most Prized
I don’t know how or even why I got on the floor and under the bed, and I cannot remember how I packed up and fell in perfect line up outside in full combat…