Wuodha: My Journey from Kenya to these United States
by Washington M. Osiro

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Washington introduces his best friends from school to his father whose shocking and harsh but eventually prescient response to the introduction reveals a post-independent Kenyan society that is markedly different from the one the son has hitherto shared with the friends. The father’s brutal honesty leaves an indelible mark on the little boy’s psyche and sets Washington off on a long and oftentimes arduous journey that takes him from the rural, familiar and safe albeit hardy surroundings of Apondo, Nyanza, Kenya to the sandy beaches of San Diego, Southern California, finally settling him in the world-famous climes of Silicon Valley, Northern California. Washington repeats a journey first undertaken by thousands in the 1700s: A journey that became an annual ritual for millions thereafter; all in their pursuit of their dream; their American Dream.

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Washington M. Osiro was born in the village of Apondo, Nyanza Province, Kenya on December 20, 1960. He moved to San Diego, California in January 1981 to attend college, first United States International University (USIU) in Scripps Ranch, before transferring to University of California, San Diego’s (UCSD) John Muir College to study Political Science. Washington was able to parlay his Political Science education into a long and rewarding career in medical device manufacturing as a manufacturing engineering, operations and quality systems professional. Washington lives in Northern California, about an hour east of San Francisco, with his adorable 9 year old son, Malo. He is an avid runner and cyclist with a voracious reading appetite. Asked to provide a 6 word biography, Washington came up with the following: “He reached out because He could,” which garnered the response “very you!” from the enquirer. “Wuodha” is the author’s first book. He also says, emphatically, “not the last!”

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