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By Sabastian mwaluko  A gestational carrier or a gestational surrogate involves an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person who is unable to bear children. This process entails taking the eggs for making the embryo from another woman who is not the carrier and implanting them into the uterus of the carrier woman through the use of in vitro fertilization (American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2022). This process appears to be a modern version of the traditional form of surrogacy that was practiced by the traditional Kamba community before the invention. Based on the traditions of the Kamba culture, barrenness was highly detested and perceived as resulting from women taking in hot ghee, a belief that modern science shows is not be factual.  Once a woman was accused of barrenness in the Kamba traditional community, the latter was taken to the traditional healers who would perform rituals on her to enable conception. Such ritu

By Sabastian mwaluko   Mtito-andei ward is arguably one of the driest areas in Kenya. An area that majority of us would not wish to live in, referring to it as a useless hot and dry region. This notion of late has changed as a result of the open mindedness of the inhabitants of this particular area. In our quest to knowing much about the survival tactics within Mtito-andei ward, we met Madam Regina Mbaika, a 70 - year old lady who has established an expansive fodder farm within Mtito-andei ward. Regina says that she was a local tailor in the early 1990s in Nairobi, and was married to John Muindi, who they later separated after migrating from chullu hills to her current place of residence. Regina says that they were chased from Chullu hills by the government in the early 1980s and being a single mother of five children who was just but a mere tailor felt challenged on where she would move on to settle her children. “After divorcing my husband and fleeing Chullu hills I came back

By Sabastian Mwaluko   The pre-occupied nature of our minds with stereotypes against particular tribes, job opportunities, material possessions, certain diseases and certain nations is demeaning, defamatory and retrogressive. Stereotypes have occupied our minds and made us hate things that did not deserve our hatred as well as people and countries that were not as bad as we thought. For instance, the Kamba community in Kenya has been accused of witchcraft since times immemorial and there is no tangible evidence to proof the accusation. This is a false belief that has been installed in the minds of various communities such that when interacting with individuals from foreign communities and identifies oneself as a Kamba, the individuals run away from you in the fear that you would end up bewitching them. Unfortunately, it would be surprising to notice that Kamba people are not witches as the stereotype postulates, and fear witchcraft like anyone else would do. The Kikuyus of