my activism

It has taken me time to accept that I am an activist, that is what people see me as and that’s what my journey has mostly been about. I am an activist because of the circumstances I was born into and the experiences that I have had. Therefore, my activism is born out of lived experience as a black woman from Kenya who has suffered violence in the past. Audre’ Lorde speaks of the personal being political and my journey and the way I do my activism is a result of being radicalised by personal experience and finding language and meaning for it.

I am a feminist because this lens give me language, values and meaning to the structural issues that I am surrounded by. It is also gives room to imagine solutions that see all of us as equal.

I am a teacher, if I was asked what I do well, I would say that I teach well. I would say that I am here to generate knowledge, to share knowledge and to use this as an avenue to create change.

I am also a poet because poetry gives me language, it makes me a story teller and also allows me to weave worlds together. Poetry has healed me and continues to mend the broken parts of me, poetry helps see the present but also gives me language to imagine the future.