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No Tears for the Cherished is the heart-wrenching story of Dr. Nyaboke Nduati’s small town childhood in Eastern Africa. Surrounded, and silenced, by devastating domestic abuse, family dysfunction and illness, witchcraft, patriarchal oppression, physical and sexual abuse, female circumcision, and the early deaths of both of her parents, she protected herself by going into survival mode; a state of numbness that was her shield against the realities of her troubled life. Through a deeply and vividly honest letter to her dead mother, Dr. Nyaboke Nduati explores the events of her life before and after becoming an AIDS orphan.
Her experiences of a childhood in distress, and a teenage hood of trying to put the pieces of her life back together, are all too relatable. She writes boldly, yet delicately, about the realities of an orphaned childhood, when no one comes to the rescue.
Dr. Nyaboke Nduati is a writer, educator, life coach, wife, mother, and about a thousand other things. She grew up in small towns in Western Kenya before moving to Nairobi for college.
Nyaboke studied for a Bachelor of Education degree at Kenyatta University, then proceeded to New York, where she earned a Master of Fine Art degree (Creative Writing) and a PhD. in Literacy Education from Syracuse University.
For the past eight years, Nyaboke has worked as a school principal at Nova Pioneer. She cares deeply about young people and runs various community projects to benefit the youth.
Nyaboke also runs a podcast called Kitchen Table Real Talk (KTRT with Nyaboke Nduati).
In her free time, Nyaboke enjoys long walks with her family, and spending time at the spa
Language and Education: The Post-Colonial Language and Identity Experiences of Transnational Kenyan Teachers in U.S. Universities
This qualitative interview study reveals the experiences of transnational Kenyan teachers with the marginalization of their African languages and identities in both the Kenyan and the United States contexts, as well as their experiences of reclaiming those languages and identities as important assets in their professional lives as multilingual educators.
Bargaining for Gabriel
Once upon a time Mokeira talked about motherhood as though she had a right to it. She sat at the marketplace with other women and went on about how she hoped the children she bore would not be spoilt like other women’s children. She bragged about her family’s strong blood, and the good looks that were characteristic of her husband’s bloodline. Once upon a time she spoke of children without shame. She even complimented other women’s children without envy and bitterness tearing at her ..........
