Waking Up Hungry

April 8, 2009 in the first domino

I once woke up crying. It was the oddest experience. I hadn’t been feeling sad when I went to sleep, and I didn’t feel sad as I awoke, but there were tears all over my face in the morning. I couldn’t even remember what I’d been dreaming about, and the whole incident is so long [...]

uganda, january 09

January 29, 2009 in the first domino

“Time and bad conditions do not favour beauty,’ wrote Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in ‘Weep Not, Child’.
Perhaps the Kenyan author was right. When you’re a thirty five year old mother of seven living in a remote, rural village without electricity, running water, flushable toilets or anything more than the basic crops your hillside strips of [...]