My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You are tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’ Harmon Killebrew, former American baseball star, now a philanthropist Most mothers want their baby’s father involved in their child’s life right from conception. They…

An eerie pink crayon sketch of Winnie dangles among her teddy bears in her crib. Her parents haven’t seen the 5 year-old since that fateful Sunday morning when she wondered off—or so they think, from Sunday school in the vast Embakasi Estate of Nairobi. As evening approached, the horrific realization sunk in: Their daughter, the…

We know them by their colour and shape, and whether they are eaten raw or cooked, they are undeniably, a delicacy. While many of us eat them for their nutritive value, others simply like their taste. Bananas are good for babies too and are in fact among the first solid foods given to infants. Bananas…

BCG is a live vaccine against Tuberculosis (TB). BCG stands for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin. It was named after two doctors who developed and introduced the vaccine in the 1920s. To date it remains the only available vaccination against TB. It is given to infants to help prevent the more serious forms of TB. The BCG Tuberculosis…

Is that the time? I think to myself as the clock stares back at me unflinchingly. It is 11 am. I thought it was eight. But I am still tired from last night’s singing. You see, lately, Tebogo has taken to watching television and he seems to love a particular commercial which always leaves him…

It is hard to forget the chilling story of a mother and her four children whose lives were cut short by a fire at a village in Nyeri. Such events have led many to wonder whether the country is able to handle disasters. But what is more alarming is how unprepared most Kenyans are in the event of…