When touring the gardens of Bamos of Kenya, I had the pleasure of continuing my probe into the issue of polygamy by talking to one of our drivers Joelle. Initially not sure of his opinion on it, I asked carefully what he thought the popular opinions of polygamy are in…

In the morning, we visited the Jamia Mosque. Imam Mohammed Abdalla is a kind old man who was there to greet us. Born in Lamu County, he tried to study medicine at a university in India, while discovering his passion for religion along the way. …

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” Maureen Moraa, after explaining to us in detail about the three different nonprofit organizations she was working in, quoted Maya Angelou in describing her view of life. …

“We have high employment; I mean really high.” Dr. Murugi Ndirangu, the director of Columbia Global Center | Nairobi told us during our meeting with her and the staff today. With such abundant natural resources, why didn’t Kenya’s economy take off? What are the challenges that the country faces? When…

There’s no way to complete today’s reflection without writing about the experience after lunch. After the morning church service at AIC Millimani and a tour of Arboretum Park, we arrived at Moonlite Café in downtown Nairobi. Chaplain Davis asked us to reflect on the things/values that make us “center down,”…

4:45 am, Nairobi. Our Toyota vans raced down the A104 expressway, heading northwest, pitch darkness surrounding us. To our left, the full moon hung on the edge of the sky. To our right, a dim shade of dark orange was on the horizon. In the mist-filled rift valley down the…

I’ve been interested in how cultural identity perceptions are formed, especially how people of a culture learn to perceive the culture of its own — What does it mean to be Kenyan? What would local people say? On the flight to Nairobi, the inside of the meal boxes provided inscribed…