Much has been said over the years about teenage pregnancy; blame games have been played, and yet those who are most affected—the teen mothers themselves—remain on the wrong side of the scale in the discussion. Through its representatives as servants of the public, the government is constantly open to differing opinions. On one hand, there …
Statistics don’t lie, and the mental health statistics in Kenya are as alarming as they are dismaying. In a 2017 WHO report, Kenya was ranked 5th among African countries with the highest rates of depression. Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among people aged 15–29 around the globe, and with recent reports, younger …
Amani* (Not her real name) was 16 years old when she got pregnant. She had to drop out of school because of teenage pregnancy. She contemplated getting rid of the pregnancy by trying to use unsafe options including overdosing and visiting a local quack doctor, but all efforts were futile. Her parents were unable to …
I don’t think family has ever (only) been what is fed to us – the nuclear family. I believe that in the past, especially in the African set-up, family was viewed as the community. Children belonged to the community, hence the saying ‘it takes a village’. With Westernization, we shifted our focus to creating the …
