As told to Magunga by Mammy, a 22-year-old girl living in Bungoma.
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At the age of six, I was learning to use the words uncle and aunty loosely. They didn’t necessarily have…
As if being an early teenager is not complicated enough, you just had to be different. You deal with the…
Towards the end of the turbulent forties, men came back from the great war slinging more than just gun. They…
When you start approaching 30, it feels like everything is closing in on you. Life develops a certain urgency to…
The call came in when I was at my cousin’s place. It was during those early days of the pandemic…
Unfortunately for him, he grows up in a time when Burundi is going through a patch of history it would rather forget.
When darkness approaches, it seldom makes a sound. It just creeps silently towards you like a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you can neither breathe nor see.
My name is George Ammington Ojwaya. I’m the coach for the Kwale Queens football team. Football came back to me. And now I share it with the world.
As a young kid growing up, you go about doing the things growing up kids do. You are a little…
Babu dresses people for a living. The first time he told me that, I laughed, because who does not know how to dress surely?
Not that there are a lot of passports to go around. A lot of the time, refugees become so because they do not have the documentation needed to prove that they belong to something, to a government somewhere. It’s funny how little pieces of paper – money, IDs, passports – become so important when you don’t have them. But who is thinking of carrying a passport when you’re running away to save your life?