Some things are missing...

So clearly, I am a terrible blogger! Ummm... 10 days in Kenya and you'd think nothing happened!

Or that I learned nothing.

Neither could be farther from the truth.

Perhaps, I should do some of this blogging in retrospect!

So let me tell you my thoughts on the bui bui (hijab, to the rest of the world) - the head to toe covering of some Muslim women.

Anyone who thinks that covering is by its very nature oppressive and diminuitive has clearly never stood near a woman wearing one. I'm telling you, the sisters are saw were bad. And it was not hard to see... cutting your eyes at other women coming down the street is a universal language! LOL.

In Lamu, the covered sisters were fierce. nails done hair done everythang done. Jeweled cuffs, chic handbags, gilded sandles - and the baddest eyeliner and mascara technique I've ever seen.

They laughed, they rolled eyes, they bargained bartered bantered...

At any rate. It's the woman in the bui bui, not the bui bui.

One.