'Mama yangu alikuwa kahaba'

 

Dr Ron Archer overcame many odds in his early life to become an accomplished academician, businessman and preacher. 

“My mother was a prostitute!” These are the first words Dr Ronaldo Isaac Archer, a father of four sons utters when asked to describe himself. 

A summary of his life depicts a troubled childhood marked by sex abuse and rejection. At age ten, the man who is now a celebrated motivational speaker, at some point, wanted to die. 

“In my mind, if the next ten years were going to be like the first ten years, I didn’t want more years,” says Archer.

 Archer is now the board chairman at the Dunamis Institute International, a leadership firm based in Kenya and is planting a church known as the House of Champions in Kitisuru, Nairobi. Archer says he shares a lot with Kenya because they share a birthday. 

Kenya gained independence in 1963 and he was born in the same year. The man of God overcame one challenge after another to be where he is today.

Archer’s mother has an equally moving story. Because of the stresses of life, his mum became a prostitute at the age of 14. Out of the flesh trade, a baby would come into being.

“By age 16, my mother became pregnant and she tried to terminate the foetus. She even tried swallowing pills and using a clothes hanger but it refused to die,” says Archer.

That baby was born prematurely with no pancreas; ears and a throat that did not connect properly among other kinds of disorders. The baby struggled in school and was a severe stammerer – that baby was Archer.

“When I was in school, I would wet the bed and had a lot of trauma as fellow learners would tease me because of my stammering.” To cope, he kept to himself.

Then the madam who managed his mother’s business started to sexually abuse him in the basement.

 “When you are abused like that, there are four things you learn – it’s called the trauma of abuse. You don’t talk; you don’t feel any more pain; you don’t trust anyone and finally you just have to pretend somewhere in your mind that nothing is happening,” he says.

At 10, he had had enough and had the gun he picked to kill himself not refused to work, he would not be telling his story.

Archer’s mother has an equally moving story. Because of the stresses of life, his mum became a prostitute at the age of 14. Out of the flesh trade, a baby would come into being. “By age 16, my mother became pregnant and she tried to terminate the foetus. She even tried swallowing pills and using a clothes hanger but it refused to die,” says Archer. That baby was born prematurely with no pancreas; ears and a throat that did not connect properly among other kinds of disorders. The baby struggled in school and was a severe stammerer – that baby was Archer.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000135554/my-prostitute-mother-tried-to-abort-me-but-god-had-grand-plans-for-me?pageNo=2

Dr Ron Archer overcame many odds in his early life to become an accomplished academician, businessman and preacher. “My mother was a prostitute!” These are the first words Dr Ronaldo Isaac Archer, a father of four sons utters when asked to describe himself. A summary of his life depicts a troubled childhood marked by sex abuse and rejection. At age ten, the man who is now a celebrated motivational speaker, at some point, wanted to die. “In my mind, if the next ten years were going to be like the first ten years, I didn’t want more years,” says Archer. Archer is now the board chairman at the Dunamis Institute International, a leadership firm based in Kenya and is planting a church known as the House of Champions in Kitisuru, Nairobi. Archer says he shares a lot with Kenya because they share a birthday. Kenya gained independence in 1963 and he was born in the same year. The man of God overcame one challenge after another to be where he is today
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000135554/my-prostitute-mother-tried-to-abort-me-but-god-had-grand-plans-for-me

Dr Ron Archer overcame many odds in his early life to become an accomplished academician, businessman and preacher. “My mother was a prostitute!” These are the first words Dr Ronaldo Isaac Archer, a father of four sons utters when asked to describe himself. A summary of his life depicts a troubled childhood marked by sex abuse and rejection. At age ten, the man who is now a celebrated motivational speaker, at some point, wanted to die. “In my mind, if the next ten years were going to be like the first ten years, I didn’t want more years,” says Archer. Archer is now the board chairman at the Dunamis Institute International, a leadership firm based in Kenya and is planting a church known as the House of Champions in Kitisuru, Nairobi. Archer says he shares a lot with Kenya because they share a birthday. Kenya gained independence in 1963 and he was born in the same year. The man of God overcame one challenge after another to be where he is today.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000135554/my-prostitute-mother-tried-to-abort-me-but-god-had-grand-plans-for-me