The Feminine Impact: How Women Have Influenced the Trajectory of My Life
August 14, 2021
Women have, in various instances, taken the wheel of my life and driven me to greatness.
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PERSONAL ESSAYS
Reflections on My 25th Year of Life
August 12, 2021
If there is something I can confidently say at this point in my life, it’s that I have failed A LOT. So obviously, I have learnt an awful lot too.
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An Unexpected Lesson on Social Capital
July 13, 2021
What more can one ask of a Sunday morning than to witness the human spirit in perfect harmony?
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A Beautiful Thing Happened When I Set Foot in Africa: My Story From the Netherlands to Kenya
June 18, 2021
Everybody should be who they are, unapologetically, with or without judgment. Go on and be yourself. Life isn’t a movie scene where your performance must impress the director. Your life is your story. And you must own it, and live it, your way.
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One Year After Her Son’s Birth, Dr Purity Ngina Offers Her Perspectives on Maternal Healthcare in Kenya
June 16, 2021
In becoming a mother, my experience is different from many women in this country. The majority of whom, just like my mother in rural Kenya, give birth outside of health facilities, without the care of a skilled birth attendant
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What Is That Thing? Eunniah Mbabazi’s Cruise in Search of Purpose and Meaning
June 11, 2021
But there comes a time in life when money isn’t what drives you.
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I Trust the Unchanging In the Changing: My Little Birthday Essay
June 2, 2021
What/who is your landing space? Whom do you go to feed on new inspiration when life beats you down– and it will beat you down?
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Lessons From My Mama: Home Is Where Your Heart Is
May 25, 2021
Sometimes we get so obsessed with a place that we forget that we are not limited to where we were born and that the world is our oyster
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Who Is Your Favourite Child?
May 14, 2021
We may disagree on some issues, but when all is said and done, I should never make my child feel less loved because of what they did or didn’t do.
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The Healing Power of Listening- Lessons From a Personal Encounter
May 12, 2021
Listening to get to the point, find the opportunity to jump in, give our view, or provide a solution is not conscious listening.
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Lessons From My Mama: Mother’s Day
May 4, 2021
Mother’s Day is is a very special day; a day we celebrate life, the role women play in society, but more importantly, it is the day we celebrate love.
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Lessons From My Mama: What Is Love?
April 23, 2021
As we figure out how to survive while papa is away, I begin to understand what love is; making sacrifices for the ones you love.
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Lessons From My Mama: Values and Life Skills
April 16, 2021
When mama is not talking about COVID-19 she talks about values and life skills. She calls them the 21st Century Skills. These skills, she says, have guided her thus far.
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Choices Have Consequences: Part Four [Redemption]
September 29, 2020
I regret my mistakes but I am grateful for where I’ve come from. Make no mistake, I still haven’t fully found my purpose. I fall. I cry. I mess up. At only twenty-six, I’d like to call myself a work in progress.
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Choices Have Consequences: Part 3- the End of the Road
September 22, 2020
If you are a teenager reading this and you believe in the power of sticking together and never snitching, kindly do re-think. All it takes is a slap.
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Choices Have Consequences: Part 2- Alcohol, Truancy, and a Night in Police Cells
September 15, 2020
I saw my mum cry in church sometimes, in the company of other women, praying for me. Some family members berated her for my ill upbringing.
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Choices Have Consequences: Part 1- Rebel Without a Cause
September 8, 2020
I was a troubled teenager who found fault in little things, who wanted to stoke flames of unrest just for fun and so I could be away from school. Call me a fool, because that’s who I was.
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A Letter to My Fellow Men
August 19, 2020
If you are going through something unbearable, please open up and seek help.
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An Intervention Prayer for a 9-Year-Old Boy
August 4, 2020
Kids being raised by both parents is something that most people often take for granted.
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The Power of Passion: How My Love for Football Changed My World
May 20, 2020
Your passion may not change the world, but it will change your world.
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Volunteering Never Changed Me, Kenya Did
May 10, 2020
Kibera taught me how to be compassionate, even if that means giving away the little you have. It taught me how to appreciate the small things, rather than to stress over things I have no control over. It taught me how to create beautiful things from limited resources, and how to take matters in your own hands
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