The story of "Desperate Child" by Silvester Njoroge Wa Mwangi, revolves around a boy and the struggles and pains he goes through after the death of his mother at the time of Liberation War, between the MauMau Freedom Fighters and the Colonial government. Mbau belongs to a family of five children and their mother, Wanjiku. Mburu who is her husband and father of her children, has not been living in their lives for a long time, after the day he mysteriously disappeared. Brought up singlehandedly by their mother, Mbau and his siblings grow up realizing that they are poor, but they also know that...
The story of "Desperate Child" by Silvester Njoroge Wa Mwangi, revolves around a boy and the struggles and pains he goes through after the death of hi...
