Nyanya Rukia
Nyanya Rakia has three children. Two from her first marriage in Zanzibar which ended up in divorce and a son with Rajab, her herbalist husband who is currently serving a fifty-year jail term for misleading a patient leading to her death. Her firstborn son lives in Zanzibar while her grown-up daughter lives in Nairobi.
Athman, Nyanya Rakia’s last born lives and works in Dubai where remittance from him keeps Nyanya comfortable though always complaining. She adopted Mbotela, her sister’s son whom she brought up as her own. She is also taking care of her granddaughter Mariam, Athman’s daughter.
Nyanya Rukia is a landlady, a farmer, a business lady, an activist and a politician under water.