Purpose defined

I have been so focused on piecing my stories together that I completely forgot to blog the past couple of weeks. I am looking forward to being published next week. As usual I will post my stories on the blog. I will also post more pics from the trip as well.

I thank God! It has been 2 and a half months since I kicked off on my own as a freelance journalist. It hasn’t been easy, I will be honest. I have moments of despair and tears. Just trying to figure out what the hell I am meant to do. But I don’t have a single shred of regret.

With time and primarily the revelation of this Isiolo trip, I now know that my heart and whole being is in being a journalist. Copywriting is an ability I have. But not a passion, so I am definitely slowing down in that area.

 I am broadening my spectrum of online sites to contribute to.  I am working on the stories that I intend to pitch this weekend, so that come next week I can hit the ground running. Freelance really doesn’t give you the chance to be lax, especially now that I am trying to build my credibility. My byline needs to be all over the place. That way it will be easier for me to get referral jobs.

I have come to realize that I am passionate about conflict related issues. I would like to go to the heart of where conflict is on this continent and get both sides of the story. I do want to spend the rest of my life backpacking Africa and telling Africa’s untold stories. Stories that even the natives of the country haven’t heard themselves.

I believe that I have managed to do that with this story on Isiolo. I am working on another piece as well on that. I do hope to go back to Isiolo in the coming weeks, but this time in the interior areas, the bushes were there is nothing but Manyattas and vast land. I hope to also visit our military bases up in the North. I know that will require some formal requests with the Kenyan army. Heck I know I will do it; where there is a will there is a way right?