My husband stabbed me with a sword before killing himself
I heard the children scream, “Uuwi, daddy usituue!” (father please don’t kill us!). This was too much for me and I gathered my energy to save them....
I came face to face with armed rebel soldiers; they told me to say my last prayer
In my prayer, I asked God to bless and protect the soldiers as they went on looking for the rebels. When they heard my prayer, they spared my life....
Before seeing the light, city woman was a junkie, criminal and hooker
My friends started introducing me to different types of drugs including alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine among others and eventually, I got addicted....
Turning Point
He told me that his friends were laughing at him and wondering how he managed to live with a cripple. This broke my heart and I could not take it....
It was extremely tough. I was in my final year of primary education and the disease disrupted my studies. ...
Turning Point
We were so dirt poor, I wore my sister’s panties to school
Despite the rough start, Liech is at the apex of his career, as an ethnology and anthropology tour guide, one of the only 26 gold certified in Kenya....
Love is blind: Dad loved our alcoholic mother to death
Growing up in a family of 13 children, we knew how to sleep hungry and the pain of being chased away from people’s houses....
Our lives became a living hell when father married wife number two
She fought my mother all the time and got offended whenever dad paid our school fees....
My story of overcoming failed pregnancy, family loss and loneliness
She did not understand why she was facing one misfortune after the next; at her lowest point, she questioned the existence of God....
I forgive relatives who sent me packing after death of my parents
I am glad that my relatives now recognize me and involve me in family matters. I also assist them at home....
Turning Point
‘The fattest sat on my chest as the rest parted my legs’
Bishara Hamo underwent forced Female Genital Mutilation as a child, and will live with the scars all her life....
One injection changed my life forever
Trezza Thuo was diagnosed with a permanent disability at 10 years old. She had to choose between living life and sinking into oblivion. She chose life...
How a bar fight landed me in prison
With a struggling mitumba business, Stanley Karanja joined a gang hoping to 'make' more money. But he didn't know that his days were numbered...
I was almost executed for crime I didn’t commit
Boniface Mzima spent 18 years on death row before he was freed. He opens up on how a fun road trip ended up in maximum prison...
Life in Kamiti was no bed of roses
Having survived death by a whisker, 28-year-old Simon Kariuki narrates about his life as a teen behind bars and the tribulations of maximum prison...
Cancer has not killed my ‘fashion creative juices’
Designer Shinyenze Khasoha nurtured her passion in fashion while in campus. She was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer but is not giving up, just yet...
Serving time in prison made me a better man
Oliver Kateya's mother passed away when he was only 12. From a homeless boy, he became a petty thief, a prisoner and is now a revolutionary musician...
I was depressed and planned the death of my own children, but an accident saved their lives
One sad day, Esther Wangeci made a crazy plan to crash her car and kill her children. But another different accident saved their lives...
Cancer doesn’t care if you are a pastor
You never feel the pain until cancer visits you or your loved one. For Pastor Charles Mwangi, cancer was a myth until he was diagnosed with it...
