The Women’s DayIssue
Celebrating Women Giving to Gain
Seven Kenyan women, and not one of them stood waiting to be handed anything. This issue is about what each gave away first — the time, the risk, the safer version of her own life — and everything that came back because she did.
KSh 30 · 16 features · print & digital
Every woman in this issue gave something away long before anybody thought to give her anything.
Seven women, one issue, and a question worth sitting with after you close it: what are you willing to give?
Faith Odhiambothe advocate Kenyans came to call the People’s Chief Justice
She did not reach the top of Kenya’s legal profession by waiting her turn. An advocate of the High Court and only the second woman ever to lead the Law Society of Kenya — and, somewhere along the way, the lawyer ordinary Kenyans learned to call when nobody else would pick up.
The architecture of a life, and the legacy it is leaving — told in her own words, across the cover feature.
- Advocate of the High Court
- Led the Law Society of Kenya
- Only the second woman to do it
- The People’s Chief Justice
Six more women who gave before they gained.
Not profiles written from a polite distance. Each one tells it herself, in her own words.
She carried the women the world had already written off all the way onto a global stage — and made a point of never arriving anywhere on her own.
GLOBAL ADVOCATEHealth, wealth and power. Kenyan women are quietly expected to settle for one of the three. On why she has never accepted the terms of that bargain.
HEALTH, WEALTH & POWERShe survived cancer and decided the story was not hers alone to keep. What she says now to the woman who has just heard the word for the first time.
A MESSAGE OF HOPEBuilding games that hand children a different world to imagine — and making the case, to anyone still unconvinced, that play is serious work.
REIMAGINING THROUGH GAMESTwo women scaling real businesses while raising real families, on the arithmetic that never makes it into anybody’s business book.
BUSINESS AND FAMILYDesire on her own terms. The conversation the modern Kenyan woman is increasingly having with herself first — handled without the usual euphemism.
THE MODERN WOMAN’S DESIRESWhat “giving to gain” actually looks like
Five threads that run through every story between these covers.
And then, the softer pages
Mothers & Daughters
The inheritance that was never going to be money.
Women At Work
What has shifted, what stubbornly has not, and what comes next.
The Village
The women quietly holding other women up, asking for nothing.
Rest Is Not A Reward
On finally putting your own name somewhere on your own list.
Thirty bob. One issue. Seven women who changed the room.
Less than a matatu fare into town — for the stories you want your daughter growing up having heard.
Celebrating Women Giving to Gain
International Women’s Day is one day in March. This issue is the other three hundred and sixty-four — seven Kenyan women on what they gave up, what they built in its place, and exactly who they brought along with them.
She never once waited to be offered a seat
She built the table herself, and then deliberately made room at it. Every woman in this issue has done some version of exactly that — and all seven are worth an evening of your time.
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