The phone call was brief.  “Mama Shirleen, kimbia nyumbani..!” A mother knows when an emergency is an emergency.  I stopped what I was doing and hopped into a boda.  You know when you feel something running down your spine? That’s what I felt. A cold sensation spiraling down my whole body, leaving me senseless What […]

I can’t believe am doing this. I had promised myself I would bury this deep inside myself. Yet am furiously typing on my keyboard as if I have a deadline for my story for the evening news See, my dad sexually abused me. And not once. Or twice Actually, I got pregnant with him. And […]

Being hit by a woman makes me sound less of a man But Carol hit me, not once, or twice. And at first I brushed it as spur of the moment anger.  When it happened again, I realized things were running out of hand.  See, am not that kind of a guy who is confrontational. […]

Njambi* looks out the window. She has been silent for a few minutes now. The light afternoon drizzle is hitting the window, the rain water dripping down silently We are silent Eerily silent “You know, it was my mistake,” she suddenly turns and faces me after a long minute She quickly reads the surprise in […]

My mama told me everything would be ok. She was wrong I sensed the danger as soon as the rusty voices of the village elders pierced through the morning dew It was still pretty early. Way before the cocks began crowing, which had been the cue my mama had given me As the voices got […]

They came for me in the wee hours, in the small of the night I knew what they were planning. But nobody had hinted they would knock at our door at the crack of ungodly hours Caught unawares, I didn’t fight back. Ok, I tried but they overpowered me. About 6 able bodied women. My […]

Njambi* looks out the window. She has been silent for a few minutes now. The light afternoon drizzle is hitting the window, the rain water dripping down silently We are silent Eerily silent “You know, it was my mistake,” she suddenly turns and faces me after a long minute She quickly reads the surprise in […]

The first step is always the hardest yet the bravest. Tina is a student, actor, influencer and a survivor of sexual assault ‘’After being assaulted, you might be physically hurt, emotionally scarred or mentally traumatized. You feel like it’s the end of time. You feel like people around you are breathing but you are drowning. […]

If Panadol could cure all diseases, Mary Chepkisur would be a happy midwife But it does not so she has to travel deep into a forest in Kongelai village. Her mission? Look for herbs that will act as pain killers for her patients Being the only trained traditional birth attendant in an area of about […]

Underage girls in Pokot are taking the bull by the horns. Well, literally With the campaign to abolish FGM in Kenya in hot gear, minors in the semi-arid areas in Pokot are circumcising each other Without any experience, painkillers or the hubris that accompany such ceremonies, young girls are giving in to social pressure from […]