The recent orchestrated “invasion” of land belonging to the Kenyatta family has once again highlighted the highly sensitive and contentious issue of land in Kenya, particularly among the Kikuyu of Cen…
It is a Sunday afternoon and the sun is playing hide and seek with a lazy cumulus cloud that stubbornly hovers above Uhuru Park, Nairobi. The park is teeming with a sea of humanity. For hours, they ha…
During Kenya’s darkest hour in 2007/2008 when Kenyans lived through the most devastating bout of post-election violence, William Ruto and Raila Odinga were on the same political side.
With th…
He is widely known for his chart-busting album Calypso, the first album in the world to sell over 1 million copies in a year, which included the smash hit “Banana Boat Song”; but he wore the title ‘Ki…
One must-do if you ever travel to Japan is signing up for a Japanese tea ceremony in Osaka.
You will end up in a ragtag group of other itinerant tourists eager to immerse themselves into a ce…
It’s the year 2003.
We spend all our free time in [Redacted] Boys High School huddled up listening to Kiss 100. Ogopa Deejays have taken over the airwaves. Through the illegally smuggled Pali…
The smell of Old Spice aftershave is one-of-a-kind.
You could be dodging thieves and preachers in downtown Nairobi and still notice the smell if you chanced on a whiff of it. It’s not unpleas…
My 20s were mostly employed on the political street beat with maandamanos that took place in the agitation for an end to the one-party rule and the clamor for a new constitution in the ‘80s into the ‘…
On 20 April 2023, Twitter's new owner Elon Musk retired all legacy blue checkmarks. Musk chose the date because it's 4/20, get it? This came after previous threats to get the check marks removed so …
A few months from now more than 1.5 million wildebeest will cross the crocodile-infested Mara River into Kenya from Tanzania, in what is recognized as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Natural World." …
