This is one of my last posts. I will be wrapping the blog sometime in February. Well , I have decided to leave the Street in the coming month. I have become a little weary, and as much as I…
Category: sue maisha’s diary
Sue Maisha is a Nairobi prostitute who chronicled her experience as a ‘girl of the night’ in the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Here is her diary as a blog.
Episode 58: Goodbye Guilt
I bet I am starting to sound like a broken record; once more, I talk of quitting. This has nothing to do with the many emails and comments I have been receiving to the effect of late. Those I will…
Episode 57: January Mind Games
The stereotype of a Street prostitute is that of a birdbrain, a girl dull enough all she could think of to earn a living was open her legs and lower herself to the bottom of society. Over time I have…
Episode 56: And Now The Men Who Can’t Quit
It has been said that prostitution is a victimless crime. That a girl-man transaction being a gentleman’s agreement of sorts, neither of them is really a victim. But moralists will tend to differ. To them, prostitution should not judged in…
Episode 55: Pushing On In 2012
A client once told me that prostitution is a curse. That girls who get into the trade are destined to be in it. They are by fate chosen to fulfil a certain role. That the same the universe is precise;…
Ebook: A Few Things I Know About Sex
Nairobi Books asked me to write about a few things I know about sex. This is the kind of thing some expected me to write—stories about the art of sex. And so I have written about the act itself and what…
Episode 54: Nairobi Is Persecuting Me
Who is it that sang New York is killing me? .. Bunch of doctors coming round; they don’t know that New York is killing me… Yeah, you got 8 million people, and I didn’t have a single friend. Don’t you know,…
Up Nairobi: Christmas Woes And Wows
I still write a monthly column for UP Magazine. Below is an excerpt from this month’s issue of . If the story looks so smooth and lacks the roughness of what I write here, then it is because it has…
Dear Readers
Its very easy to lose people’s trust. When you promise things and fail to deliver, when your words don’t translate to action, then you become a talk shop and people no longer take you seriously. Take me for instance. Last…
Episode 53: Girl Power!
Below is a very raw excerpt from a quick tongue-in-cheek sex ebook I am writing. The book will be ready by Monday. Details of how it came about, why and availability I will give then. Disclaimer: The book is a…