Lucy Wairimu Kamau

Tributes

• Remembering Grace Wambui Njoroge · 3y ago

  Neighbour and Women's Guild friend

  When my first child came early, it was Matron Grace who sat with me through the night, took my hand and told me to breathe like I was blowing out a candle. My daughter is now a nurse. She says she chose it because of the woman who knitted her first cardigan.

• Remembering Samuel Maina Njoroge · 5y ago

  Neighbour of forty years in Kiambaa

  Mzee Maina once climbed a pole at ten at night in the rain because my mother's shop had gone dark, and he refused to take a shilling. He said light was not something you charge a neighbour for. Every time I flip a switch I still hear him say it.

• Remembering Teresia Wanjiru Muriithi · 7y ago

  Cousin

  At our grandmother's funeral Teresia was the one who calmly took charge of two hundred plates of food and a leaking tent. She never raised her voice, only her eyebrows. Somehow everything worked. That was her gift: calm that you could lean on.