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Mansplaining

There’s nothing I hate worse than being mansplained to by another woman.  Who is 20+ years younger than me, and has always done everything better and bigger than me or anyone else in the conversation. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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#juakali stories. Link in bio. Did you know that if the circa 840k jobs created in 2018 in Kenya, only about 74k came from the formal sector while over 80% from the informal sector? #byawoman with @ojwokphotography telling true stories of everyday people navigating life. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Dzmxzgtnj/?igshid=zikdvr2qztoq

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Euphemisms For Death

You died. I could not say it, I could not write it; I told them, ‘She’s gone’, Then I said, ‘She left us’, But that made it your fault. So I settled for ‘She’s now at peace’. I looked for a suitable heading – I said ‘The farewell of …’ It did not sound formal enough. I wrote ‘The departure of …’ But that was too vague. So I settled for ‘The promotion to glory of .. ’ I needed to do the roll-call…

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Storytelling Through the Lens of a Kenyan Photographer

Storytelling Through the Lens of a Kenyan Photographer

Rich Allela is currently an award-winning Kenyan photographer at age 28. Though it might seem like an obvious goal to target for a man and his camera, his story gives us insight into why his career path may have been unforseeable; a stark reminder on the key our hobbies hold when navigating careers – the things we truly love to do. Village Life … At the tender age of 9, Rich’s family moved away…

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