If you listen only to the words Christine Gakii Nkonge speaks, you will only hear the sound she makes, one of self-assuredness, shed off from all fat and conjecture, simple and concise, delivered with the air of a monk meditating on a mountain. The phrase wise beyond her years was made for moments like these, for people like her.
But if you cross-examine further, if you Iisten to what’s not being said, you will hear the colours and understand that perhaps Christine is afraid that she is running out of time. “As I exit Katiba, will I still have the energy to chase after the things I postponed?”
