Cancer takes it’s toll on pastor, wife

Author , Cry of the Heart , Rev, John Gichinga and his wife prof, Emmy Mwenesi Gichinga. PHOTO | FILE

recently reread Pastor John Gichinga’s Cry of the Heart, a tribute to Prof Emmy Mwenesi Gichinga, his wife of 32 years who died of breast cancer. With an incidence of 34 per 100,000 Kenyan women diagnosed, the disease kills one in four of those diagnosed with it. In East Africa, the rate is 30.4 per 100,000.

Written in 2014, John uses excerpts from Emmy’s diary for much of the book’s content.