Grace Wanjiru.

Grace Wanjiru.
I started doing drugs (marijuana, khat, alcohol and cigarettes) in form 3, in a Nairobi city school, when I was 16 years old. I can attribute the onset of my drug abuse to adolescence issues. I felt my father favored my brother, simply because he is a boy - child (in keeping with the African tradition, where the boy child is favored). All my attempts to catch my father’s attention did not work. I therefore decided to rebel by disappearing from home for ...

GERALD WAMALWA

GERALD WAMALWA
When I reached 48 years old, I realized that it was two years before I reached 50 (half a century). For half a century, I had achieved nothing worth taking about. No job, no wife, no kids and living on my mother like a teenager. After A-level examination in Kenya, I proceeded to USA for further studies. While I was in US, I never registered for any course. For 7 ½ years I was just drinking. I came back to Kenya in 1990 and continued drinking. By 1997, I...