Bill shares about his journey struggling with addiction and depression

From a young age, Bill felt slights and sorrows more deeply than he could explain, sinking into a darkness he couldn’t shake. Self-taught, he became one of Kenya’s most celebrated newspaper writers — yet at the peak of his success between 2017 and 2020 he was quietly crumbling, addiction taking hold alongside a depression he had no name for. By 2023 it had cost him his wife and his daughter. This is his account of facing the illness behind the bottle and beginning to recover.