… on the way to the doctor’s office. Western medicine treats the human body more mechanically than it treats a car. Every body part is treated as if its connection to the rest of the body is coincidental. You’ve got the ear, nose & throat guy, the ophthalmologist, the foot doc, the ladies’ parts doc,…
When talk about AIDS first broke out, no one really knew anyone with it. I was in high school, and for us, it was a distant story about Americans. In fact, we were told black people didn’t get it. We joked about it as if it would never ever become a reality in Kenya. I…
I finally watched the film, Rafiki (2018), on Kanopy, thanks to my Howard County library membership. Then I wondered why on earth Kenyan authorities had banned it. It is an excellently told story, simple and true. Yet is sent men in charge of a country’s storytelling business frothing in terror. There was a time in…