Lessons From My Daughter
…adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief.
Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.
Tag: the girl child
But, That’s Not What They Were Fighting For
with their husbands names,
hidden under their teeth…
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’
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!
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…
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…