Naivasha is a very old town in the Great Rift Valley, which was started during the construction of the railway line in 1800’s. The railway line passed through there on its way to Uganda, near lake Victoria which is the source of river Nile, which serves water in Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt countries in Africa. This is a town which is famous for wildlife and some of white settler like Lord Dalemere lived here and his… Continue reading
Sanije is now a 38 years old woman, the mother of two children. She was only 23 year when her husband was killed and left her with the child one year old and two months pregnant. As with many of our posts, the story is in her own words except where it interferes with being understood… For me holidays never had any sense. My father died when I was seven year old. We were seven… Continue reading
“Many criminals and hostile tribes were there during the day and killing people at night. During the day I could accompany my aunt to look for the missing people. We could identify those fallen dead with arrows on their bodies. Many women raped and left for dead were very many.”
SON’S STORY “If this was a Grimm’s fairy tale, they would call Son “The Little Pig Girl”. Every day, after school, she climbs the muddy hills around her village to collect neighbors’ food slops. She fills, and empties this bucket in to her family’s pig pen over fifty times before the swift tropical nightfall calls her home. Then she goes in to help her mother.” Continue reading
