lizzet

Dear Kenyan sexual minority, The world has watched as your president  labled you as a non-issue! Even if he said his government is committed to Human rights for all its citizens, it's not for citizens like you... Even if you wake up every morning, spend all your day at work, pay your taxes, help your communities, contribute to charities, help out the poor, so long as your sexual orientation is not straight you are a non-issue... Even if he said he will commit to protecting the girlchild and support women, if you are a woman of sexual minorities, that was not for you, you are a  non-issue...  But, hold up, hold up those pills you are about to swallow, hold back the rope.. No don't jump over the bridge cos you know what? You are an issue, that's why that question came up, cos there was an issue.. An issue being ignored and banned down because of many other issues including religion and cultures.. You know what, there are lots of non-issues in the history of human rights tha...

Okay Single ladies, lets just get one thing straight, being single does not give you the title Miss independent and being the actual Miss independent doesn't guarantee that you necessarily have to be single. This is not an attack on single women but truth be told am tired of hearing this term "am single and don't need anyone!" and then go on to tell us how you are miss independent because you have no man around to keep you on your toes, you can do whatever you want without having to be answerable to someone. You have the wrong idea about your status as a single woman. Not being single does not necessarily mean that there is someone on the other side barking out rules and orders, it could simply mean there is someone on the other side waiting to hug you after a tough grey day, waiting to make you a cup of tea after you get home from work, someone simply to share this journey with. Don't look at us married women or us in relationships like we are not ind...

Where is home? My trigger to writing this blog comes from the stares i get and the kind of amazement i see in people's eyes when they ask me where home is and i mention a country i was not born in.The quick thought that runs through their heads that is clear on their faces and for those whose words run faster than their brains, who actually look at you like you did not understand them and go again like, 'i mean, where do you come from?'. The dilemma is on most of us who have left our native homes and found or made a home out of our native. There are no Kenyan nurses working in this institution so i am tired of people assuming that i am American or British because that is where most black nurses are from. There are South African nurses but i look nothing like a South African and no one has even asked me if am South African. The moment i say Finland, there is this vibe i get from people's spirits, facial expressions or body language. A funny ignorant American guy was qui...