My alcoholism and a wasted youth

Isaac Festus Ndung’u, 44, a recovering alcoholic lost his youth to alcohol addiction. While recognising that alcoholism is a disease, he is emphatic that with will power, one can recover. He shared his experience with MWAURA MUIGANA.

“I was first exposed to alcohol during family occasions in my teenage years. I started as a casual drinker and didn’t see any danger in that. When I joined the University of Nairobi’s Kikuyu Campus in 1989 and had access to the HELB loan, commonly known as boom, financing my drinking and smoking habits became affordable.… Subscribe to read more

Published on April 2014