THE MATRON
A female senior nurse who despite a successful career, is grappling with turning a campus love to matrimony. Made all too difficult by a judgemental ailing mum, who plots to have her get into an arranged marriage.Set on the Kenyan Coast, the tradition of the Swahili people, of arranged early marriages which she eluded by embracing education, later comes to haunt her in her thirties when being single at her age, raises eye brows not only in her family but the community at large.All in all, she has to maintain a perfect balance between romance, profession and family; a family where everyone thinks that at her age she needs to find a man and bear children before its too late.A short story…