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By @kwamchetsi

We spoke a few weeks ago, to cook up mischief, but she told me that now she feels tired all the time. I don’t know what to do with the project we were to start.

@RasnaWarah was very conscious about her mortality and wondered how she would be remembered. I would often tell her she would be remembered for thought and moral leadership, as well as the books she wrote  -- ‘Triple Heritage’, ‘Red Soil and Roasted Maize’, ‘Mogadishu Then and Now’, ‘Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits’, and War Crimes’ as well as the two UN-focused ones. She also contributed stories to ‘Kwani?’ and ‘Nairobi Noir’.

The truth is, she will be remembered long after for her kindness and humanity. Rasna and Gray have been quietly paying school fees for children in Kilifi, their little act to right the world from their corner. So when the first girl from Kilifi scored an A in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination, it must have brought a smile to her face.

Today, I lost a wise big sister who was so grounded that she would call in to just be assured she was not out of her mind.