A list circulating on Facebook purportedly showing 28 public secondary schools that are to be privatised is fake.
A November 2022 list of the enterprises in the government’s approved privatisation …
I don’t remember how it all started, but all I know is that by the second term in Form One, I was Kakamega High School’s high priest of romance. A word charmer. A paper contortionist of matters sensua…
A week earlier, everything was business as usual between him and I. It would be wrong to say that everything was fine because things were never truly fine. I had met him at my best friend’s birthday d…
A part of growing up is realizing you grow apart from people you thought were going to be with you forever. But just like that sweater you got ten years, it’s hard to let go of the rope holding you to…
I had a conversation with a friend recently. He wanted to start dating again.
“I have a tip for you, if you want,” I said
“Ok, shoot,” he said.
“Ask her out properly,” I told him. “Don’t be v…
The old GoDown Arts Centre on Dunga Road was a den. A lair. You walked in and were hit smack in the face with the powerful creative forces curling and uncoiling like a slow python on a river bank, wit…
A former British politician once told me “Decoys and distractions are a government’s number one strategy to keep the populace from demanding accountability.” I have been reminded of this quote on nume…
We are living in strange times. Scrolling through the Twitter handle of Dr. David Ndii makes for some disturbing reading. Responding to a tweet by Njeri Thorne in which she shares the view that Presid…
Parents of young Black men in the United States live with constant fear, wondering whether or when their sons will be killed by white police officers. As a result of this, African-American fathers and…
Mrs. Number One
Reverence is recognisable. You see it when it is there, and here, as the MC does his best to calm the crowd, to plead for order so that the show may start, you can see it. Reverenc…
