Ann Muitiriri

After all, the actual minority, like the women in very remote areas in communities that still don’t educate their women, are not the ones who get the positions- and they are rarely fought for by the women that make it to those positions.

Whenever we drive along the section, our windows are rolled up and doors locked. If the windows have to be rolled down even an inch, our phones are out of sight.

No, I’m sure I had zipped it up securely because my teacher, Mr Experience, has taught me well. Apparently, it hasn’t taught me well enough because my phone is now missing from my bag. I search in the bag, around it, around me, on the floor and in the space between the seats but it’s just not there.

“The last time we walked like this with you on these verandahs you know what happened. Let’s avoid the crowded verandahs.” So we jump onto the road where we fight for space with vehicles and not people. The vehicles can’t steal from us, you know.