“Fight for your right to memory” — Catherine Amayi Trigger Warning (TW) : The trauma of post-election violence may resurface in the course of this piece, please take caution as you read. Kenyan citizens waited with bated breath for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to make final declarations…

I am always keen on reflecting about Occupational health and safety on April 28th in honour of all the workers. It’s not only because it is my current profession, but also the idea that we spend a huge amount of our adult life in workplaces. This year’s theme is …

To mark the International Women’s Day(IWD), 2022, I chose to write this piece like my journal entry. Dear Diary, The day is 31st March, 2022. I feel pretty spent out by this month because too many things happened both in my personal life and in the immediate environment. I had…

This day is celebrated on 11th February As far as my memory goes, I have always celebrated my birthdays since I was a child. My dear mother socialized me into this idea , as a few of those birthdays she hosted some parties, baked a cake and we have some…

The year 2021 was A LOT in many ways. A lot of highs, many lows and everything in between. Ah, it’s quite unbelievable that it’s December, 2021( by the time I upload this post it is January, 2022!!!). How did we get here? My year has been so fast and…

Writing this piece more than a month after the event probably embodies the phrasing ‘life comes at you real fast’. Isn’t that what the COVID19 pandemic has been in general? I had promised myself and probably said it a bit too loud around my friends that I will write about…

On 26th September, 2020, about a week ago, the world celebrated ‘world environmental health day’ whose theme was : Environmental health, a key public health intervention in disease pandemic prevention. A timely theme in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) , environmental health…

This poem was inspired by “I may destroy you” TV series that was written by Michaela Coel How to be whole again after trauma? How to go back to ourselves…healing… I want to feel myself breathe again I want to be able to smile again without pretending , deeply from…

In the Kenyan high school literature and fasihi 8–4–4 curriculum, students go through a series of books that are dubbed “set books”, these are books chosen for the last two years of high school to be studied for the final national examination. The books are in both Kiswahili and English…