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As a mother of three (one boy 17, and two girls 16, 15) I felt that running my own PR and Marketing firm from my house made it easier for me to be available to my children, something that is very important to me. However, as they have grown older, I have found some semblance of 'free' time in which to rediscover the loves of my life, writing included.

I studied journalism as my postgraduate degree in Nairobi, Kenya, but would want to venture into creative writing in future; there is so much to say about the world around us.

I love dancing, reading, writing, and getting to know people.

For those who are interested, I am 44 years old this year, but insist that one is as old as one feels, and I feel much younger than reality:-)) I have also been married for 19 years.

I look forward to hearing from all of you, and writing for magazines, and newspapers. My dream is to write books based on my experience and growing up in Africa, especially as a Maasai woman.

Maasai are a minority Nilohamitic tribe in Kenya, and it is rare for Maasai girls to make it through school and even onto postgraduate studies before being forcefully married of in their early teens. I therefore feel very privileged that I have achieved so much in my life, and look forward to learning how to express my views on various issues in the life around me in writing.

Society & Lifestyle > African & Middle Eastern Culture The difference that electrical supply makes to the lives of Kenyan villagers

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They say that life begins at 40, and for middle-aged Agnes Wanja and others in her village of Thiba in Kianyaga, in many ways a much more exciting chapter of life shone forth this year. Suddenly in the darkest of night a myriad homesteads on the hills and valleys of Thiba, twinkled and speckled with electricity for the first time in the history of the village!
The Thiba Micro-hydro-electrical project is a realization of a long-term dream of almost 2,000 villagers, over a 20 Km-radius, who scrimped and saved for over three years from their meager savings derived from a subsistence way of ...

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