Legally Clueless
Legally Clueless is a weekly podcast by Kenyan media personality & social activist: Adelle Onyango!! Here, she documents her raw human journey as an evolving unapologetically African woman. The podcast is a space where people get to know just how okay it is to not know or not have it all figured out. It is also a space where Africans share stories from their lives; stories that teach, make us cry, make us laugh - real, authentic African stories. The #LegallyClueless hotline is +254768628790
Episodes
October 21, 2026 • 27 mins
"Could never be me!"
How often have you heard women say this when another woman shares her experience of heartbreak, betrayal, or a harmful relationship?But what if this response isn't just unkind? What if believing another woman's experience could never happen to you is also stopping you from learning from it?
In this episode of The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks why some women respond to other women's ...
How often have you heard women say this when another woman shares her experience of heartbreak, betrayal, or a harmful relationship?But what if this response isn't just unkind? What if believing another woman's experience could never happen to you is also stopping you from learning from it?
In this episode of The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks why some women respond to other women's ...
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October 19, 2026 • 47 mins
She Lost Her Parents, Her Home & Had to Fight to Survive | Daughtie's Story (Part 1)
What happens when the people who are supposed to protect you become the very people who hurt you? In this episode of the Legally Clueless podcast, we meet Daughtie, whose extraordinary story of survival begins with a childhood marked by loss, sexual abuse, rejection and instability. After losing her parents, Daughtie finds herself movin...
What happens when the people who are supposed to protect you become the very people who hurt you? In this episode of the Legally Clueless podcast, we meet Daughtie, whose extraordinary story of survival begins with a childhood marked by loss, sexual abuse, rejection and instability. After losing her parents, Daughtie finds herself movin...
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October 15, 2026 • 69 mins
What happens when you stop carrying shame that was never yours to begin with?
In this deeply personal Season 6 finale of For Mannerless Women, Adelle Onyango sits down with award-winning creative producer Queen Gathoni to explore what it means to reclaim your voice, your story and ultimately, yourself.After surviving an abusive marriage and leaving with her young daughter, Gathoni rebuilt her life.
Years later, she ma...
In this deeply personal Season 6 finale of For Mannerless Women, Adelle Onyango sits down with award-winning creative producer Queen Gathoni to explore what it means to reclaim your voice, your story and ultimately, yourself.After surviving an abusive marriage and leaving with her young daughter, Gathoni rebuilt her life.
Years later, she ma...
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October 14, 2026 • 23 mins
Have you ever felt angry about something that happened months or even years ago, then immediately felt guilty for not being over it?
Women are often taught to be patient, forgiving and understanding. But what happens when we're so busy extending compassion to everyone else that we forget to extend it to ourselves? This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks our complicated relationship with anger, why women are o...
Women are often taught to be patient, forgiving and understanding. But what happens when we're so busy extending compassion to everyone else that we forget to extend it to ourselves? This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks our complicated relationship with anger, why women are o...
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October 11, 2026 • 44 mins
In the concluding part of Makena's story, a terrifying suspicion becomes reality when she confronts her partner about accessing her private conversations and information on her phone. What follows is a deeply personal account of digital surveillance, emotional abuse and coercive control, and the lasting impact of having your privacy, independence and sense of safety violated by someone you trusted.
Makena reflects on the war...
Makena reflects on the war...
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October 7, 2026 • 61 mins
Who benefits when women believe they are too loud, too angry, too ambitious or simply too much?
This week on For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with feminist activist and Executive Director of Dada Collective Network, Zaha Indimuli, for a conversation about the many ways women are taught to make themselves smaller and what becomes possible when we refuse.
They unpack respectability politics, self-censorship and ho...
This week on For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with feminist activist and Executive Director of Dada Collective Network, Zaha Indimuli, for a conversation about the many ways women are taught to make themselves smaller and what becomes possible when we refuse.
They unpack respectability politics, self-censorship and ho...
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October 6, 2026 • 21 mins
What happens when control doesn’t actually feel like control?
Sometimes it sounds like, “I just worry about you.” Sometimes jealousy feels like proof that someone really cares. Sometimes constantly checking in feels like closeness. And sometimes we slowly begin changing how we dress, who we see, where we go and what we say just to keep the peace.
Inspired by Makena’s story on Legally Clueless,...
Sometimes it sounds like, “I just worry about you.” Sometimes jealousy feels like proof that someone really cares. Sometimes constantly checking in feels like closeness. And sometimes we slowly begin changing how we dress, who we see, where we go and what we say just to keep the peace.
Inspired by Makena’s story on Legally Clueless,...
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October 4, 2026 • 39 mins
What happens when attention slowly turns into control?
In Part 1 of Makena’s story, she shares how a relationship that began with friendship, attraction and fun gradually became possessive and controlling. It started with small things that were easy to explain away. Complicated rules around communication. Constant calls when she was out with friends. Accusations of cheating. Wanting constant access to her while making ...
In Part 1 of Makena’s story, she shares how a relationship that began with friendship, attraction and fun gradually became possessive and controlling. It started with small things that were easy to explain away. Complicated rules around communication. Constant calls when she was out with friends. Accusations of cheating. Wanting constant access to her while making ...
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October 1, 2026 • 63 mins
What happens when choosing yourself means creating distance from the people who raised you?
This week on For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with psychologist Ivanna Waweru for an honest conversation about family, boundaries, identity and going no-contact.Ivanna shares her own experience of growing up in a chaotic and critical family environment, the different versions of herself she became in order to survive it, and the...
This week on For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with psychologist Ivanna Waweru for an honest conversation about family, boundaries, identity and going no-contact.Ivanna shares her own experience of growing up in a chaotic and critical family environment, the different versions of herself she became in order to survive it, and the...
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September 30, 2026 • 24 mins
What if the biggest thing standing between you and your dream isn’t your ability but whether you can actually see yourself living it?
This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle unpacks what it means to truly own your dreams to stop keeping the things you deeply desire at a safe distance and start believing that they deserve a real chance. Fresh from bringing For Mannerless Women Live to life, Adelle reflects on what...
This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle unpacks what it means to truly own your dreams to stop keeping the things you deeply desire at a safe distance and start believing that they deserve a real chance. Fresh from bringing For Mannerless Women Live to life, Adelle reflects on what...
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September 28, 2026 • 40 mins
In the final part of Lisa Gaitho’s story, we follow her through one of the most personal shifts of her journey: questioning what she had been taught about faith and beginning to discover what spirituality could look like for herself. Lisa opens up about questioning Christianity, confronting how judgmental she had once been, and rebuilding her relationship with God outside of some of the beliefs she had inherited.
She a...
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September 24, 2026 • 40 mins
What happens after you recognise narcissistic abuse?
How do you begin to rebuild your life and yourself?
In Part 2 of this For Mannerless Women conversation, Adelle sits down with psychologist and trauma therapist Perpetua Chomba to explore healing after narcissistic abuse. They talk about making sense of what happened without blaming yourself, grieving the relationship and future you imagined, rebuilding self-trus...
How do you begin to rebuild your life and yourself?
In Part 2 of this For Mannerless Women conversation, Adelle sits down with psychologist and trauma therapist Perpetua Chomba to explore healing after narcissistic abuse. They talk about making sense of what happened without blaming yourself, grieving the relationship and future you imagined, rebuilding self-trus...
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September 23, 2026 • 28 mins
When was the last time you spent time alone without reaching for your phone, filling the silence, or asking someone else what they think?
This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango explores how solitude and silence can help women reconnect with themselves, rediscover what they actually want, and rebuild trust in their own intuition.From the expectations placed on women to constantly be available to others, to the discom...
This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango explores how solitude and silence can help women reconnect with themselves, rediscover what they actually want, and rebuild trust in their own intuition.From the expectations placed on women to constantly be available to others, to the discom...
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September 20, 2026 • 34 mins
Lisa moved to Nigeria for love. But what happens when the life you move into leaves little room for you to be yourself?
In Part 2 of Lisa Gaitho’s story, we pick up where we left off: Lisa is back in Kenya, unsure of what to do next, when she meets a boyfriend and decides to move to Nigeria. What follows is a very different life from the one she grew up knowing. Living with her boyfriend’s family, Lisa encounters...
In Part 2 of Lisa Gaitho’s story, we pick up where we left off: Lisa is back in Kenya, unsure of what to do next, when she meets a boyfriend and decides to move to Nigeria. What follows is a very different life from the one she grew up knowing. Living with her boyfriend’s family, Lisa encounters...
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September 17, 2026 • 64 mins
What happens when the person who once made you feel like the centre of their world becomes the person who makes you question your worth?
The constant attention. The big promises. The feeling that you've finally found someone who truly understands you. And then, slowly, the affection changes. The criticism begins. Your boundaries are tested. You find yourself holding on to the person they were at the beginning.
In Part...
The constant attention. The big promises. The feeling that you've finally found someone who truly understands you. And then, slowly, the affection changes. The criticism begins. Your boundaries are tested. You find yourself holding on to the person they were at the beginning.
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September 16, 2026 • 27 mins
Have you ever disliked a woman who hadn't actually done anything to you? Maybe her confidence irritated you, her success made you uncomfortable, or you found yourself picking apart her life without really understanding why. What if the problem isn't her, but what her life brings up in you?
In this week's episode of The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks jealousy, envy, and the uncomfortable ways comparison can turn into ...
In this week's episode of The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks jealousy, envy, and the uncomfortable ways comparison can turn into ...
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September 13, 2026 • 41 mins
How do you figure out what you want to do with your life when nothing seems to quite fit?
In Part 1 of Lisa Gaitho’s story, she takes us from a playful childhood growing up in Nairobi West to a high school experience she desperately wanted to escape and into years of trying to figure out where she belonged. Lisa tried journalism. She tried hotel and restaurant management. She eventually found culinary school, which too...
In Part 1 of Lisa Gaitho’s story, she takes us from a playful childhood growing up in Nairobi West to a high school experience she desperately wanted to escape and into years of trying to figure out where she belonged. Lisa tried journalism. She tried hotel and restaurant management. She eventually found culinary school, which too...
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September 10, 2026 • 54 mins
What if the life you really want begins after the age you were told you should have everything figured out?
In this episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with Sally Sawe, Co-Founder and COO of The Partnership Agency, for a beautiful conversation about ageing, starting again and giving yourself permission to build a life that is entirely your own. Approaching 40, Sally walked away from a long-term relationship and...
In this episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with Sally Sawe, Co-Founder and COO of The Partnership Agency, for a beautiful conversation about ageing, starting again and giving yourself permission to build a life that is entirely your own. Approaching 40, Sally walked away from a long-term relationship and...
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September 8, 2026 • 28 mins
Leaving a harmful relationship is one thing. Staying gone can be another battle entirely.
Inspired by Ann’s story on the Legally Clueless podcast, this week Adelle explores what it actually means to choose yourself while trying to leave an emotionally abusive or harmful relationship and in the days, weeks and months after you’ve walked away. Because going back doesn’t make you weak.In this episode, we unpac...
Inspired by Ann’s story on the Legally Clueless podcast, this week Adelle explores what it actually means to choose yourself while trying to leave an emotionally abusive or harmful relationship and in the days, weeks and months after you’ve walked away. Because going back doesn’t make you weak.In this episode, we unpac...
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September 6, 2026 • 56 mins
After eight years of loving someone, what happens when you finally find the answers to the questions you’ve been asking all along?
In the final part of Ann Wachera’s story, we pick up after another painful breakup with the man Ann once believed she would marry.Ann tries to move forward. She blocks him. Unblocks him. Goes to therapy. And eventually, the two find themselves back in each other’s lives.Then one...
In the final part of Ann Wachera’s story, we pick up after another painful breakup with the man Ann once believed she would marry.Ann tries to move forward. She blocks him. Unblocks him. Goes to therapy. And eventually, the two find themselves back in each other’s lives.Then one...
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