Tag: women-empowerment
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The Cost of Staying
It’s funny how life circles back to things. I recently had a conversation with a traveller who had just returned from Kenya. When they asked me about my tribe, I said, “I am a Maasai,” and their face lit up. The immediate follow-up was, “Oh! Have you seen The White Maasai?” I had, many years…
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Unmarried. Unburdened. Unapologetic.
I grew up watching women disappear. Not physically. They were still there walking to the river, cooking over open fires, sitting in church on Sundays, nursing babies, nursing husbands, nursing communities. But somewhere between the vows and the village expectations, they let go of themselves. Quietly. Without ceremony. The ambitions they once whispered to their…
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The Inheritance of Silence: A Story for Umuofia, Maasailand, and the World
There is a silence that is taught, not born. It is learned by a young girl in a Maasai manyatta when she sees her mother’s posture change; the straight back that carried a heavy water pot now softening into a deferential curve as her father approaches. It is a silence that speaks of a world…
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The Power of Yearning: Transforming Dreams into Reality
Have you ever felt a yearning so deep it becomes a part of you? It’s more than a thought. It’s something you breathe in and out. You feel it on your skin like a change in the weather. You see it everywhere; in a stranger’s smile, on a billboard, in the quiet of your own…
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Being my biggest Project
There are moments when giving up whispers as the easier option. But for some of us, that option was never on the map. The terrain of our dreams doesn’t have an exit route. The biggest risk I ever took was moving from Kenya to Europe. I grew up envisioning a life abroad as something beyond…