Nairobi is today's Gethsemane where we seek hope amid agony

An illegal dumpsite along Likoni road next to diamond park estate in Nairobi. Residents are warning of environmental catastrophe as mountains of garbage remains uncollected. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Season's greetings from Emanyulia, this place of gold and hope. We are happy to remember you in this season of passion. We join other Christians throughout the centuries, to recall the biblical Garden of Gethsemane and the agony of Christ, on the night that he was betrayed, and of course the risen Christ.

Force of habit over the years always brings us this way in this season. We are the people you witness in heavy West Kenya-bound traffic in festive seasons. We labour to reach our native homes. Christmas and Easter are not the seasons they should be if we do not come to the Lake Victoria Basin for catharsis.