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Echoes Of A Vanishing Luo Tongue: Janet’s Fight To Revive Her Heritage
The dawn broke over Lira, painting the horizon in soft pinks as Janet sat with her grandmother, Auma, under the shade of a sprawling mango tree. At 18, Janet cherished […] More
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Honoring Goes Both Ways
As a Clinical Social Worker who uses play and trauma-informed approaches, I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside children and families doing deep inner healing work. This week, I had […] More
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in Career and Employment, Family, Friends and Relationships, Law, Crime and Justice, Self-help and Inspiration
The danger of a perfect rewrite
Sometimes I catch myself wishing I could go back and change just one moment. I know exactly which one but that is a story for another piece. But almost immediately, […] More
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FAMILY AND POLITICS
They almost chased me out of our family WhatsApp group because of politics. Imagine that, expelling someone from his own bloodline over colours on a party flag. I refused, of […] More
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in Community & Opinion, Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Self-help and Inspiration11 years of EQUATE Foundation!
11 years is a crazy number. It’s actually hard to believe that this started with a simple chat with a friend when we went on a swimming date. I was […] More
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in Competitions and Challenges, Family, Friends and Relationships, Self-help and Inspiration, Writing and Literature
To The Self I left Behind
To The Self I Left Behind My dear, I never sent this letter. Perhaps I never meant to, yet it lingers here, folded delicately between the quiet corners of my […] More
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Who Will Fix Mr Fix-It?
Every friendship circle has one quiet constant — the organiser, the emotional anchor, the person who steps in when plans fall apart or when people fall apart. In this article, […] More
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Dear Old flame,
It was the jackfruit tree that took my virginity. I lied, it wasn’t you. I am the first child and only girl to my parents, followed by five boys. I […] More
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Orange soup
Mark Obibi had never sucked his teeth at his mother, but he did it in January 2011. Everything she was saying annoyed him. She described the scene of plates flying […] More
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Dude, an office affair is a death sentence.
Penning my journal. It was in the mid 80s’ that I met Wanjiru, she seeded from Nyeri county. Wanjiru a lady beautiful popped out of the crowd. She sheened unblemished fair […] More
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Love in the shadows.
LOVE IN THE SHADOWS It always surprised me how someone with billions of daddy issues could be so mesmerized by men. The hardness of their faces sent me places. The […] More
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Life is a hodgepodge of contradictions
#PenningMyJournal. Wuod Baba is feeling peppered today, as my year closes. In lily rose am pepping to curtain the sunset of the 2025 in hale spirit. Nowadays I cherish good […] More
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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Health and Medicine, History & Heritage, Identity & CultureThe legacy of grandpa.
Penning my journal. Stumbled in this pic of grandpa Ezekiel Omkhulu on my maternal side back taken in his sunset years in the 1970s’. In the 1920s he worked in King […] More
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Some women come with wealth, and when they leave, depart with it all.
#PenningMyJournal. Decades ago, there’s a gentleman I worked with known as Otieno, he was tall, dark & handsome. Always foppishly smart, he loved popping Italian suits and whiffed premium colognes […] More
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DEAR KELVIN
Dear Kelvin, The last time I saw you was one of my most difficult moments on earth and I had no idea how I was going to make it through, […] More
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OF DAUGHTERS AND THEIR CHILDREN
This is our granddaughter. Her name is Hearty Cutie. She was named so by her mother on the day she became hers. As with our Lord, her conception and birth […] More
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Parental Privilege
When we speak of privilege, we usually think of gated communities, abundant food, uninterrupted electricity, et al. But for the last 7 years of EQUATE Foundation, I have noticed that […] More
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If only I had been a man, my mother might have loved me
Depuis aussi longtemps que je me souvienne, ma mère aime les garçons. C’est presque une vérité sacrée chez nous. On le sent dans ses gestes, dans son regard, dans sa […] More
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