Who Builds in the Storm
Where the rain never ends
A memoir about a boy from a small market village in Nyeri who lost his mother at seven, was raised by his grandparents on the slopes of Mount Kenya, and learned the one lesson that has held ever since: you do not wait for the rain to stop before you start building.
You do not wait for the storm to pass. You build inside it.
It begins in Kiamariga, a market village in Ruguru Ward where the red soil turns to river when it rains and the market still opens on Tuesday no matter what you are grieving. Loss came early. So did the lesson my grandmother left me with: the storm does not come to destroy you, it comes to show you what you are made of.
From there it runs through a classroom with cracked walls, a long walk to school, and every room I have built since. It is written. What is left is getting it into your hands.
How it begins.
The rain in the highlands of Kenya has a way of teaching you patience. It doesn't fall softly, it insists. It carves its own paths through the red soil, turns the roads into rivers and beats on tin roofs until every thought in your head must learn to adapt to its rhythm.
I was born into that rhythm, into a world where rain was both blessing and burden, where life demanded resilience before you even knew what the word meant.
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