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Vignettes

Stories of people, told and untold by them.

Vignettes

Familiar Faces

Feb 25, 2026

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4 min read

Familiar Faces

Whispered conversations rarely carry good news.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Daughter of Scorn, Part II

Feb 4, 2026

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10 min read

Daughter of Scorn, Part II

She comes back to die with her people. She does not want to die in the streets of Nairobi, stepped on and eaten by stray dogs. She wants to be buried like a human being. A human being who, unlike everyone else, dared to look beyond the waters of Nam Lolwe.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Daughter of Scorn, Part I

Feb 1, 2026

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8 min read

Daughter of Scorn, Part I

Zuri drank greedily. The village began to feel smaller for her each day. She grew tired of their mud houses and of old men whose breath carried rot and authority. She felt the dresses sewn for her did not bring out her bunda the way a girl would want. Worst of all, she dreaded the certainty of her future.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

32 Days of Christmas

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There’s a Voice in our House

Dec 5, 2025

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3 min read

There’s a Voice in our House

Ever since the voice began echoing through our rooms, dad’s photographs have quietly vanished from the walls. The only image I still carry of him is the one preserved in my mind, now a fading memory sharing space with that other voice.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

32 Days of Christmas

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Tattoo on the Left Boob

Dec 4, 2025

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9 min read

Tattoo on the Left Boob

The tattoo was simply another way to define who she was, to cement her defiance against everything she despised in this patriarchal society. To defy the gods who took her parents early. To challenge her grandmother, who was still too steeped in religion to understand that even gods, surely, had tattoos.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

32 Days of Christmas

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Ginger

Dec 2, 2025

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7 min read

Ginger

She endured her anger at everyone and everything. She listened as she bargained with the universe—even offering to pay a ransom. She was there when Belinda was depressed for weeks, when she cried herself to sleep every night in their hostel. When trauma made her start locking her hostel doors at 6 p.m. When she’d wake up in the middle of the night to check if a fairy had placed it under her pillow.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

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The sky forgot its colour

May 18, 2025

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12 min read

The sky forgot its colour

Men love watching their cars being cleaned.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

Until you

Apr 27, 2025

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10 min read

Until you

You never know what's missing until you get everything you need

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

Akinyi

Mar 23, 2025

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17 min read

Akinyi

Nyar-ringa

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

The iniquity of my father

Mar 16, 2025

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14 min read

The iniquity of my father

Mzee’s last wishes

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

Running with the river

Mar 2, 2025

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14 min read

Running with the river

Don't leave your phones by a random Mark.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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How I wanted to be loved this valentine’s🌹

Feb 16, 2025

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4 min read

How I wanted to be loved this valentine’s🌹

From Claire, to Ben, with love.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

A random day in December

Feb 2, 2025

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8 min read

A random day in December

You have served me sadness, on a platter of laughter.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

First-Person

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About Millena

Jan 19, 2025

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9 min read

About Millena

Nyathi mochwe gi kalam gi rubber

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Letters & Lovers

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Love, Lies, and Lobsters

Dec 1, 2024

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9 min read

Love, Lies, and Lobsters

Shiny detours.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

Street down below.

Nov 24, 2024

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7 min read

Street down below.

It's hard for me to explain how humans find the pleasure of causing people pain.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

My wife’s in labour!

Nov 10, 2024

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8 min read

My wife’s in labour!

Now what do I do?

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan

Vignettes

Lamentations of a 23-year-old.

Oct 6, 2024

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8 min read

Lamentations of a 23-year-old.

Wisdom says that sometimes, people have to find their own way.

Juma Reagan
Juma Reagan
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