Last Friday was my Dad’s birthday; he would have been 77 this year. It’s been 16 years since he passed away. I miss him more every day. I have endless questions I want to ask him about his childhood, about my granddad who I never met, what it was like coming of age so far
Things were thick! Really thick! The ‘Government’ had walked in and there was no saving grace. She had walked in through the door soaking wet and stinking. It was flooded outside and we had forgotten the clothes on the washing line which were now completely drenched. “What have you been doing all day Akinyi?” the
I could barely eat my lunch; I was so excited I would finally see Dad, Muli, Mutua and Kanini. I had missed everyone so much. It had only been six weeks since school resumed. But the ‘hole’ I schooled in, made everything seem like light years away. I stood at the school gate in the