“Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. In underdeveloped countries the preceding generations… fought as well as they...
At almost 35, I’m yet to find balance in life. I was born into a family of five, two parents, two boys and a girl. I...
Before I gave birth to my daughter I was probably what the embattled boy-child would today call a ‘toxic feminist’. My place was not in the...
We are all born into the world of humanity at an ordained moment in time and space with a spiritual ordained mission yet we are the...
Won’t You Help To Sing? The young man grabbed the microphone with relish and held onto it so hard, I thought he would break it. Then...
Ask any child of the 80s what, “Polisi wa kae kama raia” means or why August is called the “ Black month” and the question evokes...
For the last few months, students at the university where I teach have been pitted in a standoff against we the faculty and administration. From the...
It is 8:30 am on a chilly Saturday morning punctuated with light rain showers. I prompt the driver to reverse the pickup truck into the entry...
My dad was born in 1946. His dad, my grandfather, was born in 1918. Both of them were born at the tail end of wars that...
Reading recent submissions to The Elephant by Millennials, one gets the impression that there is a generational battle going on in Kenya. It is portrayed as...
