From Ground Nuts and Kaimati
Upon finishing High school, my kuka (grandpa) from my mom's side, Japhetha Makokha left for the coastal city of Mombasa with a school...
Welcome to Our lives, a Different Kind of Crochet, a unique blog here for you to explore. Instead of weaving different pieces of yarn, I weave different backgrounds and perspectives. You can read from: informative articles, op-eds on current events, short stories, poems, and more. I hope that you can learn or relate to parts of Kenyan and Kenyan-American culture as told from my personal and shared experiences.
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"When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise"
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