Home can be a steady ground when your life is shifting sands. It is to me at least. Cutting lineages from your skin has consequences. It takes effort. It takes more bleeding than you think possible. Takes ritualistic return to truths that sometimes feel like a lie. It sometimes means walking around …
As a Kenyan living in Kenya, the last few months have been difficult to say the least. Like many others, I have watched the prices of basic goods and services quickly skyrocket.. It’s become a running joke, but the truth is that KSh 1,000 doesn’t get you much nowadays. To make life bearable under th…
I have a toxic relationship with my hair. My 4C, tightly curled beautiful hair. I don't always feel like it’s beautiful. I think it is partly because 4C hair is only praised when it's long, and only on social media.
The Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns and all, forced me to sit with my unbraided hair…
