My mother is a prostitute…… what does that make me?
A Swahili saying goes ‘mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka’ – that the child of a snake is a snake. So what do you imagine is the outcome of the life of a little girl raised by a single
Christmas, the circumcision season….part II
I have obsessed about the Christmas/circumcision season 2014 - finding all the little stories from across the country. Thousands of girls have undergone the 'cut' this year - we h
Christmas….it’s the season……..the circumcision season
'Irῖgũ’ is a very derogative term that refers to uncircumcised girls among the Kikuyu. So when my friend and her sisters were being referred to as ‘irῖgũ cia Njambi –