It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.