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...
Peace to pieces. Ballot to bullet. Poll to pain. Canaan to cannon Baba and bubu. Hashtag to blood-tag. Kura na kula. Faith and fate. Wins and...
Friday, August 11 2017 The axe forgets what the tree remembers. African proverb The tension was palpable 3 days after voting. Media had prepped Kenyans for...
In the aftermath of the August 8, 2017 General Election, I received a telephone call from a friend two days after the peaceful elections. “Hi K”...
The signs have been there but in the run-up to the elections we ignore them, no matter how glaring. As the adverts remind us constantly pre-election,...
Essentially, what will now be praised as a “peaceful” election was the connivance of international racist global capital against the Kenyan people.
Today, I will be a peace ambassador for Kenya. However, to get to this peace, you must first endure this wading through the rot of a...
