It's 5:15 am, somewhere deep in Kiambu County. I am in a Super Metro. The mission: get to the hospital by 7 am for a 7:30 am appointment. It's not my first time making this trip. The last 3...

Cycle 1 | Fertile Grounds and Empty Halls For someone with a complicated relationship with routines, this new one has taken over my life like a tsunami. My dad has Gastric Cancer. From the moment we got the diagnosis, I...

I hope you have been well, as well as you can be. I am tempted to say, "Long time no correspondence,” but then again, it’s the first time I’m writing to you. An introduction seems most appropriate. Muthoni is my...

On 18th June 2024, this country changed forever, hell the continent too! This was a Tuesday that Kenyans decided to exercise their constitutional right to protest and picket and present a petition. What most of us thought was going to...

Female pleasure is definitely undervalued in our society and hasn't been explored as much. After the introduction of education, a lot of information that used to be passed down from one generation to the next, sort of stopped and...

In this episode, Onyango Otieno joins Muthoni around a conversation about Childfree men. We have seen many women talk about being childfree, but a lot of men who are don't talk about it.I was curious about how his experience...

I've been learning about Kikuyu culture and one of the things I've been looking into dowry, the ceremonies after and leading up to it, the rules (then and now) and it's been a fascinating learning experience. One of the cool...

The journey to learning to love myself has been a long one, even when I didn't have a name for it. In a society that constantly tells you you are not enough, you are too much or even not...

As a kid, I could have used... a little more love and affection. This was the first answer that came to me as I was doing this archaeology exercise. The speed at which it surfaced made me understand what people...