Skip to content

Mumbi Macharia

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Category Archives: Opinion

Occam’s Razor; you already know wtf is going on.

Sometimes, it’s exactly what it looks like.

Posted bymumbimachariaJanuary 25, 2022October 2, 2022Posted inOpinion1 Comment on Occam’s Razor; you already know wtf is going on.

A Penthouse in Senegal

Nura has travelled across the continent to live with her new husband and his two wives. I see why.

Posted bymumbimachariaJanuary 11, 2022January 16, 2022Posted inOpinion, PersonalTags:African Literature, African women, senegal, sex life1 Comment on A Penthouse in Senegal

Sex work is work

When people argue that sex work is not work, they say things like sex work is ‘self-debasement for profit’, or that sex work is ‘the reduction of self to be used as an object by others’, and my response is, isn’t that the definition of every single employment position?

Posted bymumbimachariaJuly 21, 2021January 16, 2022Posted inOpinionTags:commercial sex work, dissertation, feminism, law2 Comments on Sex work is work

What’s happening in Africa?

We’re no longer slaves, but we sure ain’t free.

Posted bymumbimachariaNovember 2, 2020January 17, 2022Posted inOpinionTags:africa, blacklivesmatter, congoisbleeding, endpolicebrutality, endsars, shutitalldown, zimbabweanlivesmatterLeave a comment on What’s happening in Africa?

‘Sex demons’ and Nairobi entanglements

In this blog post, I’m talking about the (mis)conceptions we have with regards to dating in Nairobi, and a separate idea of ‘sex demons’.

Posted bymumbimachariaSeptember 14, 2020July 26, 2021Posted inOpinionTags:dating, entanglement, love, Nairobi, relationships, sex3 Comments on ‘Sex demons’ and Nairobi entanglements

Instagram

in my ✨ outside ✨ era.
come grocery shopping with me 💫
there weren’t any heroes, so we looked up to the villains
from the last Astro/Poetry show last month ✨
oh no, don’t leave me, I love you, believe me.
I put you before everything, that was before I blocked you on everything, but I still think me & you are meant to be together, & I put that on everything.
  • Home
  • Blog
Mumbi Macharia, Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Mumbi Macharia
    • Join 103 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Mumbi Macharia
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar