NAME IT FIRST

Workbook

For Kenyan Men

Identity, Ambition, and the Conversations Kenyan Men Don't Have

Your children are going to ask the questions. This workbook helps you answer.

This is for:

For the Kenyan man managing identity, ambition, and family obligation who wants to name who he is beyond what is expected.

You'll produce:your Your Kenyan Identity Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Kenyan men are known for ambition, resilience, and community loyalty. But behind the drive, many carry unspoken questions about who they are — beyond their achievements, their tribe, their role as sons and providers. This workbook creates space for those questions. You will build Your Kenyan Identity Agreement. The output is not a rejection of obligation. It is a signed document you own.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What does it mean to be a Kenyan man — which ethnic community, language, and cultural traditions does your family carry?
  2. What from Kenyan culture do you most want to carry forward — and what are you actively choosing to protect and pass on?
  3. What do you want the next generation to understand about Kenyan identity and what your family specifically carries?

Research basis

Connell on masculinity / Fanon on colonial identity / Berry on acculturation / scholarship on Kenyan masculinity, post-colonial identity, and provider role expectations.

Choose your format.

Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$22.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Hardcoverpersonalize

The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$12.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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