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Sep 24, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
Who would’ve thought that seeking an attachment would be this treacherous? I mean, I’m not even getting paid! In one week, I’ve even been to the chief’s office because one of the requirements was a letter from the area chief. I’ve been in and out of the offices of my insurance provider. And stomaching the foul attitudes of some human resource managers. Oh! Everything they say about people in HR was definitely true. Gone to Huduma Centre to get a good conduct certificate.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori |Hannie Petra
A lot can change in two years. A lot changed in the two years I was away. Never used to be the most enthusiastic in spending the holidays in shags. The first three days would be okay during Christmas, but past that, a total nightmare. Now that I look at it, I was definitely exaggerating. Only to realise the gift I actually had: family. Around Christmas, popularly, you will see tweets like, “Niko ile location nyuma ya ID”, and for a long time, I didn’t like the idea of it.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | John Mwea |Godfrey Kimega |Wanjiru King'ori
Adjacent to my school lies the shawarma hub. For the last three years, I’ve walked past it. Promising to only ever enter it on the day I’ll write my last paper. Maybe this will become a ritual, whereby in the future I identify a place I’d like to go around where I live or work. But only visit it once I’ve achieved a milestone. Similarly of how I know some people associate music or even football wins with a certain place. And that is where I currently sit.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
Thinking around the day I got pushed out from another dimension to this one mostly leaves me blank. August 14th has always been just another normal day to me, despite it being my birthday. Probably because I never see a reason to celebrate it or maybe I wasn’t raised up to actually celebrate it. The last birthday that my family threw for me was like my 12th one. 11 years later, not another one.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
To date, I have no idea what was going through that man’s head. Maybe because he thought I was more or less a foot shorter than him, I would be intimidated by him. Taking a deep sigh on how wrong he was. Let me take you to the genesis. The days where I knew nothing about ‘pres’ as the cool kids would say, or for the rest and I, pregame. Where going to an event didn’t require y’all to cope a bottie and chug it down because the drinks inside are costly.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
The last draw, strike three, one last chance. For me, it’s the voice that booms in my head, “We, you, I need to leave!” The realisation that nothing will change. They will never change. Coming to terms that it’s not about you but them, or at least you try to console yourself. Being a big fan of sci-fi let me tell you my two “Get Out” moments. Names withheld so as to avoid defamation charges, my two love affiliates *X-267 and *X-78. Growing up, I could say my mother was very strict on me.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
The heaviest casket to carry might be the one of a young person with unfinished dreams. It’s never been easy to receive news about the death of a loved one, in this case one of my high school friends. I was selectively social in high school. Well, the better word for it is a ‘b**ch’. In my defence, I have an intimidating face, hence the stereotype, but once you get to know me, it’s quite the opposite. However, I can’t hide my facial expressions to save my life.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
The battle between the police and the people has been going on since time immemorial. One that many of us got to experience first hand during this period of protests. From being splashed with water at high pressure, to being directly shot at with tear gas. The live and rubber bullets shot at us, and of course, the traditional caning by the rough wooden rungus. Well, for me it happened to be just any other weekend at the local.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
After a long and hectic semester, sometimes a vacation with friends is what you need to unwind and relax the pangs of difficult CATs and assignments. But mostly for my case during this one semester, my business project. Coding has never been my strongest hold as a tech babe, but we still manoeuvre and conquer. In my household, you just don’t wake up one day and tell your father that you’ll be going to Diani for one week. Instead, you plan and strategise. Okay, maybe tell a tiny little lie.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
the-star.co.ke | Wanjiru King'ori
[Nairobi, June 20] I’ve always wanted to leave. Leave this country. The oppression, the hopelessness, the gluttonous corruption... But all that changed yesterday. Fuelled by the fire, by my youth of wanting more, of wanting better. Fighting for what older generations wouldn’t. They lived in the shadows, in the fear of the Nyayo era. But that’s not us, sisi ni watoto wa Kibaki. Nabii and his empty threats don’t nerve us; heck, we’ve rebelled against our strict parents.
