Babithoughts

  • Meet Bitange Ndemo: The Professor With Natural Intelligence

    Meet Bitange Ndemo: The Professor With Natural Intelligence

    There is something about fire, no wonder it has a primal link with humans. Smoldering, roaring, flickering flames, eager, hungry, rampaging; it fuels a unique beast within it. It devours everything in its path. In 1959, a fire was kindled in Kisii county whose warmth and blaze we get to experience now. Professor Bitange Ndemo…

  • Meet Julie Gichuru: The Lady with Fire in Her Bones

    Meet Julie Gichuru: The Lady with Fire in Her Bones

    ‘The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me,’  Ayn Rand pictures Julie Gichuru with these words. In a chauvinistic and testosterone-driven world, ambitious and goal-oriented women are seen as a threat and hence many hold back. But Julie was not eloquent in this language. She did not…

  • Why are girls so beautiful?

    Why are girls so beautiful?

    I have been trusting God in prayer for a while now. A prayer of supplication. Covid-19 never knocked on our doors. Instead, it unwelcomely invited itself into our living rooms. Most of my neighbors were not about to put up with a rude visitor and hence they canceled or put off whatever brought them to…

  • Good First Impressions? Maybe In The Next Life

    Good First Impressions? Maybe In The Next Life

    It has been 11 years since my last real physical fight. Beaten and humbled by my short classmate, it was my first taste of falling short of the glory of God. My crush was watching and so were my mates. Shame, fear, lack of confidence, humility…these were my new software updates courtesy of Collins Okiring….

  • Meet Cynthia Nyongesa: Buttering The Untold Stories Of African Youth

    Meet Cynthia Nyongesa: Buttering The Untold Stories Of African Youth

    “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard ” Wouldn’t it be amazing if…

  • Meet Vanessa O. Boehm: The Creator of ‘The Soul Minds Scars’

    Meet Vanessa O. Boehm: The Creator of ‘The Soul Minds Scars’

    There is this thing about music that it almost reflects the human body. I find it relatively synonymous with my heartbeat and its lyrics echo the vibrations in my soul. To me and to many, music has been a teacher and a safe haven. Music fills the air and our space without effort. We feed…

This is how it all started…

I’ve always had a loud mind. Constantly shooting ideas, half-formed thoughts, questions I couldn’t ignore. Most of them didn’t need answers. They just needed somewhere to go.

For a long time, I carried them around. Let them pile up. That didn’t end well. Writing became the release. The pause button. A way to slow my thinking down enough to hear myself clearly. Not to impress. Not to perform. Just to empty the noise onto a page.

Babithoughts is personal. Unfiltered. Sometimes messy. Sometimes sharp. Often unfinished. It mirrors how my mind actually works, not how it’s supposed to sound.

I write here to make sense of things. Work. People. Ambition. Contradictions. Africa. Me.