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What’s more, he is remarkably knowledgeable about female reproductive issues, with facts readily at his fingertips. This was particularly striking for a doctor his age as we associate such deep expertise in this field with grey hairs. It was in fact the depth of his knowledge that disarmed me eventually and inspired the confidence to continue the course with him.
One evening early last month, I walked into a health facility for admission like a tourist walking into her hotel room. I had with me a black backpack and a sling bag whose contents proved to be vastly inadequate as well as irrelevant especially for an admitted patient. Ridiculously, I had packed my earphones because…
What I do know is that, irrespective of the justifications I attempted to construct, this was a clear case of racial discrimination. What saddened me even more was that the perpetrators were individuals within an industry tasked with ushering in a transformation in our treatment of one another, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
My Lessons at 30. I turned 30 on January 27, 2022. Isn’t it incredible how time flies? Just the other day, I was twenty-one and a new, clueless mum. Then I was twenty-four, seated in a dimly-lit, poorly finished office, busy flipping Excelling in English Form Two Learners’ Book. Then I was twenty-seven, reading and…
Today, the 14thday of May, Muslims the world over mark with immense celebration the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan. It’s the first time I get to experience the nearly palpable emotion around this day because, in the main, of all the towns I’ve been to, Mombasa stands out as far as Muslim population…
Good day elders! I am reliably informed that thanks to the changes in the school calendar, our boys are going for initiation around this time. For a deep lover of culture, and especially those aspects of culture that are performed, I must admit that circumcision ceremonies are one of my most favorite cultural functions. From…
When one month ago Prof. Ngugi made his acceptance speech in Gikuyu after being the 31st recipient of the Catalonia International Prize for his distinguished and courageous literary work and his defense of African Languages based on the notion of language as culture and collective memory”, people talked. People talked as they were wont…