God will give me children in his own time

Evelyn Wanjiru.

Evelyn Wanjiru’s career in music is experiencing a high recently. Her hit songs are receiving airplay and garnering an international following too. She talks family, societal pressures and music. 

“Where is the man who was occupying this bed?” she asked the frail man lying on the hospital bed a metre away.  The teenage girl had got up bright and early to take breakfast to her ailing father in hospital. Much as he hadn’t been a constant figure in her life, she loved him, and couldn’t wait to be home again with him. Life for them had started out in Nairobi; happy and content. Then her father had been arrested when she was nine. She did not know why he was imprisoned but suddenly, life for the family had taken a dramatic downward turn and they were plunged into abject poverty. Her mother and her four siblings could hardly get enough to eat, so they were split up to each live with different relatives.