How a Brown Leather Briefcase Beat a Platoon of Cops
- October 12, 2018
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JUST the tail was visible. The rest of the dilapidated sky-blue and white Kenya Bus Service contraption was hid beyond the vibandas lining the road. A piece of clear polythene flapped wildly in the wind where the bus was missing a window pane. It looked like a panicky hawk attempting to fly off a snare.
A small traffic was beginning to build up because the bus was half blocking the junction. It could have been loading passengers right on the single-lane road. Or someone else could have been loading passengers on the road in front...
Ooh, the African…
- September 01, 2018
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LOATHING! Resentment! Detestation! Hatred! Insert any other synonyms.
That’s what I found oozing out of comments to a story on BBC headlined ‘May woos Africa after Brexit…’ or something. Nicely written piece by ex-NTV boy Larry Madowo.
Was it the frustration of Brexit that was making the Briton’s to regard an entire continent (54 nations) with so much contempt?...
Girl in the library…and other things
- August 23, 2018
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A library! It’s the last place you’d expect a rendezvous of such consequences. In fact, it’s not even the huge, more sophisticated one, standing several floors in proud indifference, perhaps because it’s named after a president. It didn’t have the army of privately uniformed arrogance manning it’s lengths with the backing of bleep-bleeping anti-theft technology....
Let men drink when still boys…
- August 17, 2018
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MANY, many years ago, roughly 12 months before I triumphed in that epic, first swimming contest, Jararindo and wife CiaMati were blessed with a baby boy. They named him Mwiti. Mwiti grew up in spirit, body and lack –because Jararindo and CiaMati’s was a family of limited resources. And nothing about Mwiti attempted to disguise...
New Love…
- July 18, 2018
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I WONDER how the weather was in July 1948. Was it as cold as it is today? It’s hard to tell, but history does tell us that in this month, in a grass-thatched hut and with only two staff, Nairobi welcomed an epic fixture –CMC Motors.
With time, the hut matured into a glass-walled showroom in...
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Letter from senior civil servant
- July 07, 2018
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Dear Ordinary Mwananchi,
I am writing this to you because you are all I have left. Everyone else has abandoned me. In fact, I just realised it has been so many years since we had a personal conversation. I have so much to tell you my friend.
But to be honest, I never, in my wildest imagination, thought...
She shouts, ‘let me out the car’. He does…
- June 27, 2018
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THE other day, I am crawling in traffic on Waiyaki Way, Chiromo area, deep in thought. I am deep in thought, thinking about nothing in particular, so I turn my attention to Kempisky across the road.
The pink silhouette looks pretty…pinker; a delicate girl bathing in the six o’clock sunlight. I try to imagine the white...
Why do men cheat?
- June 16, 2018
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“THE-SAME-REASON-WOMEN-CHEAT,” Wahu quipped, gliding her head right to left with each word, in the characteristic wobble unique to girls –and Indians. Wahu is one of two women in our close-knit clan of six buddies. She is a sales executive at a car firm and an unapologetic feminist.
The terse retort was prompted by Sylvia, the other...
MUTHAIGA OR KIBRA, IT IS A TOUGH CHOICE: The Bradford from Sweden Series (II)
- June 12, 2018
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DEAR Bradford,
Yes, I did receive your email…and yes, I was to reply to it, eventually, like I’m doing now. I really don’t get what the fuss is about because you personally wrote, “kindly reply within a week.” It is exactly a week since you sent it, so I’m still on time.
And since your mail was...
23 dos and don’ts to successful parenting
- June 10, 2018
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RAISE your hand if you agree babies should come with a manual like everything else does these days. Unfortunately, they don’t. (You can all put your hands down now) –and smile. That’s because the following comprehensive list should turn even the most hopeless of modern parent into a pro in a jiffy. Very useful for...
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