Meza Yetu Collective is a Nairobi-based feminist collective of storytellers, organisers, and researchers working alongside feminist movements and communities to document lived experience, build narratives, and bring feminist knowledge into public and policy conversations.

Our work began in 2020 with Unmothering the Woman, a storytelling initiative documenting experiences that challenge dominant and patriarchal views on motherhood, reproductive justice, and the social roles assigned to women and gender-diverse people.

Through that work, it became clear that the stories societies repeat about gender shape how authority, legitimacy, and participation are understood. Today, the collective documents and interprets lived experience to examine how gendered power operates in everyday life.

This work moves across storytelling, participatory inquiry, feminist archiving, and digital documentation. We treat lived experience as knowledge and document how people encounter institutions, social norms, and systems that shape their lives. Our work brings together narrative practice, evidence building, and public engagement.

Unmothering the Woman opened a method for documenting lived realities and situating them within wider social and political structures. Meza Yetu grew from that practice.