This week, I have been horrified by what I consider to be hateful, violent speech on social media from people whom members of the famous KOT (Kenyans on Twitter) consider to be President Uhuru’s mouthpieces. The first of this talk that I witnessed came from Pauline Njoroge, a self-proclaimed rags-to-riches communications officer at NEPAD, whose obnoxious facebook post doubting the value of Nairobi National Park went viral, and which I first saw on Diana Okello’s wall.

I’d only heard of Pauline Njoroge in passing just a few days before. But the ignorance in the post shocked me so much, that I decided to check Pauline Njoroge’s wall to check if, maybe, I was getting her wrong.

,Almost exactly a year ago, my husband and I were a newly married couple heading out to Kenya’s south coast for our honeymoon. We were on an emotional high; first, we couldn’t believe that we had met, let alone gotten married, and even then, we were amazed at how our friends and family were so excited for us, that they helped us celebrate our wedding. Initially, we hadn’t thought that anyone would care, especially for an older couple like us.  That’s why we had initially fantasized that we would say our vows in a 10-minute window offered by our church during the Sunday morning service.  And life would go on as usual.

But evidently, that didn’t happen, since now we were headed to Diani.