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I recently heard the story of two men who went to drink in a neighbouring village one evening. It so happened that the two villages were separated by a huge river. They had to use a canoe to cross the river and to secure it so it would not drift, they tied it with a […]
Can it be rediscovered? Last Sunday, as I was leaving church, I had an epiphany. A little girl caught my eye. In her small hand, she held a delicate bouquet; an arrangement of purple and white lantanas tucked into a maroon Allamanda flower, cleverly used as a vase. It was beautiful. Simple. Ingenious. That tiny […]
It’s the season after the heavy rains in my beloved County #6. Roads that were impassable just a few months ago—scarred by deep gullies and washed away by torrents of runoff—have now been hastily graded. We’re all breathing a little easier, grateful that we can reach our homes without fear of getting stuck in ruts […]
No ambience beats St. Austin’s at reminding me of my school days. Tonight, on the birthday of the church it outdid itself on several counts. The girls who took the reading chaperoned by someone well known to me for starters. As high schoolers the chaperone and I would have received our instructions on how to […]
… Mtoto umleavyo ndivyo akuavyo My mum was fond of the saying; mtoto umleavyo ndviyo akuavyo (as you raise a child so shall it turn out). I recalled this as I read the first story in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book The Thing Around Your Neck. To paint the picture vividly mum would tell us the […]
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates’ words have echoed through centuries, yet they spark a question, when should one begin examining their life? Is there a perfect time to start and are there tools that help on the journey of an examined life? Well, to illustrate let me tell the story of my […]
We woke up today to the very sad news of the passing on of our Aunty Monica Mghoi Mwamburi. As a younger sister to my late mother-in-law, she was a mother-in-law just like my husband’s mother would have been. That is how it is among us Taitas. Ambango Me Eric, Ambango Monica, as I would […]
In the sun-baked lowlands of the Taita Hills, where rains are unpredictable and traditional farming barely sustains life, a quiet revolution is unfolding—led not by government programs or large NGOs, but by an elderly woman with no formal education and a passion for a dying craft. These lowlands, once used seasonally for grazing and the […]
I was called out to step up in my leadership in an unexpected way this past weekend. We were travelling back to Nairobi from our rural home when we came upon a van of stranded travellers with a burst tyre. Frantic, they flagged us down and asked if they could borrow our spare tyre to […]
Today’s post is a quilt of sorts. I could call it a mélange of pieces I wrote over time and left off. As I was putting them together, I realized it is not entirely a hodgepodge of unrelated topics, there is something, an invisible thread of sorts that ties the pieces all together! This realisation […]