And maybe one day, in another August, outcomes will be different.
The biggest frustration for a rational thinking Kenyan, is the flimsy justification of extra-judicial killings by the police. Whether it is the Wagalla Massacre (they provoked...
Catholic Father, Evans Juma Oduor was the presiding priest of Nyabondo Parish in Nyakach. At a funeral service, he called out president Uhuru Kenyatta and asked...
I Listen Our fishermen have always netted fish, strange bodies, and even stranger stories. Stories of seductive mermaids and Mami Wata; The terrifying Mokele-Mbembe, and the...
Kisumo! The place of sumo! The land of opportunity where, when in need, you go to seek for and collect food from friends and family. And...
August 13, 2017 SEVEN: Post, post-election. The bursting open of the vast abyss beneath the veneer of ‘nation’. The mournful gushing of blood torrents. The turbulent...
December 27, 2002. 10 in the morning. Donholm Primary School. Embakasi Constituency. I am in line to cast my vote in the most important election in...
Dear Kenya, My beloved. Home to my beating heart and 48 million other heartbeats. Beneath your soil, our ancestors sleep, and underneath your sky, our children...
My friend “Derrick” has reason to be very concerned, scared even. He is a single father to three mixed race children of mixed ethnicity. And he...
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else. Gwendolyn Brooks -American Poet. The...
You don’t know me, but the first thing I’d like to say is that I’m sorry. I’m sorry that our country let you down and put...
If Kenya didn’t burn in 2013, why should it burn now? Yet, we hold her ransom with our ‘fears, what if’s and better safes’ If Kenya...