I didn't know what to expect when I started this Book Club. To have 100k members in less than a mwezi is amazing and for this I am so grateful but even zaidi amazing is the level at which I see these topics being engaged with and discussed and how generous people are being with their responses and insights into the material. This is what is meaningful to me. Then zaidi recently to look on Instagram and literally see people from all over the world coming together to discuss these issues in groups, over Skype, in person, mothers and daughters, friends, selfies, pictures of Cats and mbwa curled up inayofuata to their owners alongside #MyLifeOnTheRoad, peoples' favourite kusoma snacks.... For this I cannot thank each of wewe enough because frankly it's just so moyo warming. It's so much zaidi than I had allowed myself to imagine it could be. Gloria emphasises in all of her work the need for solidarity and community; we are 'linked not ranked'. If this book club can be that, a link between people, then I've done a good thing and I'm very proud. I'll keep going out there and trying to make this the best it can be, harassing whoever I need to harass to get maswali answered au figure out the inayofuata best thing to read.

To celebrate 100k members I've started an Instagram account because I wanted to put all of the amazing images, quotes, pieces of artwork, selfies etc that people have been sending in one place. Take a look: link

Thank wewe again for investing so much and making this what it now is. upendo to wewe all.