‘Notes from the Body: Health, Illness, Trauma’ is a collection of poems and essays that ‘(re)turn attention to the body as that through which so much of our humanness is experienced, mediated, enjoyed, suffered, understood and expressed’. It is edited by Duncan Brown, Kobus Moolman and Nkosinat.
One is a law student from Kenya, the other is an aspiring educator from Panama. Yet when they both arrived at Keuka College in New York as part of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD) in fall 2022, Samuel Njenga and Elian González Lara became fast friends. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State […]
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A baby strapped on her mother’s back survived an accident that claimed the woman s life.
As good Samaritans struggled to untie her from the mother, the three-year-old girl who sustained minor bruises on her head wailed when being separated from her dead mother.
Sharon Otieno died in the accident along Sori-Rodi Kopany road in Homa Bay County yesterday when the truck driver veered off the road and hit her.
Witnesses said the woman was on foot when the truck hit them from behind. Her body was moved to Manyatta Kobodo mortuary and the girl taken to Ndhiwa Sub-county Hospital for treatment.