Mama JunkYard’s

US born, London raised Kenyan living in NW England. Sometimes blogger; fascinated by identity politics

The Young Foundation is inviting people to share their first political memory. The First Political Memory Project aims to:
reconnect people’s everyday lives with politics through collecting and sharing stories of when people first became aware of the bigger world around them.
I grew up in a very political household so trying to identify my first [...]

Thanks to Kamau Mutunga of Daily Nation’s Zuqka Magazine for writing about my blog. I have neglected this blog for too long….

We need to be consistent in our condemnation of the BNP and its supporters. If the party is racist then so are its followers and maybe its time to revoke its political party status

I love to talk. I talk a lot. I have been called a chatter-box by more than one family member. Anyone who went to school in Kenya is familiar with the noisemakers list; a list of the names of any student who dared to speak in class while the teacher was out of [...]

Growing up and living as a Kenyan abroad you get accustomed to people asking the most ridiculous questions about your country of origin. I have on one occasion been asked if I know someone called John, because apparently John was in Kenya. No hang on, John was in Ghana but what does it matter? [...]