Tag: the girl child

• Lessons From My Daughter

  

  …adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief. Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.

  rayawambui

  November 26, 2022

  Poetry

  childhood, Children’s Rights, ChildrensRights, court, Domestic Violence, GBV, Legal defense, Love, Mother, motherhood, Mothers, poetry, SelfDefense, SelfPreservation, SGBV, The boy child, the girl child

• But, That’s Not What They Were Fighting For

  with their husbands names, hidden under their teeth…

  rayawambui

  August 25, 2015

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Affirmative Action, Culture, date rape, Daughters, Domestic Violence, FGM, Freedom fighters, freedom of speach, gender based violence, girl child, human rights, Kenya, Nairobi, poetry, prejudice, Rape, statutory rape, the girl child, Women Rights, womens rights

• The Patience For Inspiration/ Will You Judge?

  . The morality of victim is always called into question. I think my story, can easily be summed up as ‘alijipeleka’

  rayawambui

  July 28, 2015

  Journaling, Kenyan Mind, Woman in the Two Thousands

  childhood, Children’s Rights, Culture, date rape, Daughters, freedom of speach, girl child, healing., lifes obstacles, Nairobi, parenthood, Rape, statutory rape, the girl child, woman

• In Search Of Womanhood (I)

  Ariel was my role model, If she could become human, Then I could be a little mermaid. And true loves kiss could save me from anything!

  rayawambui

  July 6, 2015

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

  babies, childhood, girl child, poetry, statutory rape, the girl child, Virginity

• Throwing stones

        It’s 3:00am, and I can’t get back to sleep. My mind is preoccupied by young faces from yet another FGM Kenya documentary I put myself through yesterday.       It is not a hidden fact, that the age for circumcision is getting younger and younger. Perhaps its in order to combat the increasing awareness of […]

  rayawambui

  February 19, 2013

  Uncategorized, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Children’s Rights, FGM, Health, Kenya, maternal mortality, the girl child

• My Face

  My face has mountains and Valleys, lush, life giving terrain. Seeds latent, waiting for rain.   You come to me, speaking in languages that I don’t understand until I feel them. But those are just stories I hear.   First I must be silent inside.   We must slice, from my temple down. On either […]

  rayawambui

  July 23, 2012

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Culture, FGM, Health, human rights, Kenya, poetry, the girl child, Women Rights