18 December 2013

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

When yester-mid morning I met up with some great friends for a hike, I did not know it would be an experience that would forever remain in my mind. Three friends and I embarked on a hike in the not so famous Njukiri Forest, Kirinyaga County, Kenya. The forest is known (to those who know it) for a...

13 December 2013

THE SON OF AN AFRICAN MOTHER.

At dawn, I rose, and headless we were. Mother said he ditched us, Went to look for greener pastures, Pastures greener than the green card he had; So manly of him! Leaving his seed as well as the whole farm, Giving up what he called his fam. “You are the first born” he said “A boy child,...