Irungu Nduta

 Growing Up      The dream of every young person is to make it in life. Education as an African is one aspect that is particularly loved by parents. Having grown up in a split family setting is was a bit  hard to fully concentrate on education.My day typically worked like this growing up. I would wake up at 5 am; not me actually waking up but my grand-dad would enter my room pull the blanket of my bed and the shivering cold of the morning would wake up. Instantly I would hear " Amka" Wake Up. That was perhaps the most dreadful thing I would hear and I would know it would come. Sometimes I would try to be sneaky and wake up before the bed sheet pulling but that would not work for long since most days I would sleep.I would wake up sluggishly start preparing and head to the sitting where my grandad would have the tea ready.  When my granddad woke me up he had a particular routine. He would wake me up, place the boil the tea and immediately head to the outside ...