🎙️ Our guest today is Ruth Midundo, a resilient woman from Kisumu County.
From a young age, Ruth felt unloved by her mother. She was treated differently from her siblings and often punished for mistakes she didn’t commit. Her father had two wives, and whenever tensions rose at home, Ruth would seek refuge at her stepmother’s house.
School life was no easier. While other children went home for lunch, Ruth stayed behind, hungry. Upon returning home, she was met with a long list of chores—still on an empty stomach.
One morning, as she prepared to go to school, her mother asked her to wait at the shopping center. Ruth didn’t know she was being taken to a witch doctor. When they arrived, her clothes were removed. The witch doctor made three incisions on her head and applied a black substance. He did the same to her chest and knees.
Then, he brought out a black chicken, sprinkled maize grains on Ruth’s head for it to eat, and after that, he slit the chicken’s throat. He circled Ruth three times and threw the headless chicken away. Ruth cried uncontrollably. They were given concoctions and strict instructions on how to use them.
Ruth refused to take the medicine, and her mother noticed. That night, Ruth began having vivid dreams—fighting with her mother and always winning. In some dreams, her mother died. Whenever she dreamt of her, Ruth would wake up to find her mother standing beside her bed.
In Class 7, Ruth’s father passed away. With no one left to protect her, she ran away to Mombasa. But the spirit of rejection followed her.
One day, a kind woman offered Ruth a chance to go back to school and took her in as her own daughter. Sadly, the woman’s siblings opposed this. Ruth later met a teacher who helped her enroll in another school with fees of just 200 shillings per term. The woman agreed to support her.
Ruth balanced housework and school, eventually completing Class 8. Hoping her mother would now accept her and support her secondary education, she returned home—but was met with coldness. Her mother refused to take her to school.
Later, Ruth became pregnant. Even as her child grew, rejection persisted. A friend helped organize a trip to China, and Ruth left her child with a house help. But her siblings would visit and spread lies to the house help, causing her to leave.
Hatred grew among the siblings, and Ruth’s relationship with them deteriorated. Her story—from being taken to a witch doctor by her own mother to struggling through rejection, motherhood, and a failed marriage—is one of pain, resilience, and survival.
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