Author: Otiato Guguyu
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The Politics of Sports TV Rights
It is easier for me to strike a football conversation with a total stranger across a bar table than with my next door neighbour, with whom I haven’t had more than monosyllabic guttural acknowledgment whenever we happen to see each other, which is rare. A bar conversation finds common ground quickly even as we support…
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The Rise and Fall of Machakos Bus Station
Traffic on Landhies Road is flowing smoothly when I cross at Nacico Plaza. I have to dash across at the bump, where vehicles are forced to slow down to avoid a gaping pothole. Mali-Mali shops are just opening, dusting off Christmas decorations that are in season, including plastic Christmas trees and lengths of blinking lights…