Holidays Are For Family And Family Is What You Make It

I don’t usually go home for Christmas. By home I mean Meru, to my mother’s house. I typically spend the holidays in Nairobi, enjoying the traffic-free streets, in a collective stupor with everyone else, sinking into that limbo period where we don’t know what day it is or when we last ate a vegetable.  In […]

It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, Or Is It?

We all know what Christmas is about: the pomp and the colour, family,  sumptuous meals, the games and the laughter – the most wonderful time of the year. But not if you are the one cooking, and scrubbing, huddling your younger cousins together and simply being turned into the errand girl.  That was me in […]