It is too early in this story to be telling lies, so allow me to accord this intro with the dignity of honesty; I lied  When I met Munyaka at some event in Riverside Drive and...

When I first met Phyllis, she belonged to my elder brother I had seen Nimrod with others before, so I knew this one was never going to last either And she didn’t Her best days...

Here is how Maureen remembers it It was a weekend - and this she knows because she was not in school She was eight years old, you see, and that is how eight-year-olds break down...

It has been over two decades since I saw Zahra I cannot even remember her face now because my memory is a dot If we met on the street, and we most likely have, we’d pass each...

"Did you have a graduation party" she asked We were on our way to a graduation party for one of her friends in Umoja I was driving, and she was riding shotgun This car I inherited...

I have been wearing a marvin for so long, I cannot even remember the days when I did not need to wear it But people, when they see me around campus for the first time, they think...

he foolishness of getting a second child is in thinking that you know what you are doing this time You imagine all the ways by which you will do right by this kid The first one...

When you grow up with nothing, everything outside of the air you breathe is a bonus When the only house you've ever known and the only seats you've ever loved are the three seater...

I beat noise about my village all the time because that’s where my umbilical cord was buried, and my bones will be interred Until Colonel Apollo Aloka joined the Kenya Air...

I was not one to attend live events early Because Kenyans event organizers have shown me quite a fair amount of things But I have had a change of heart I early to most concerts,...

Isn’t it funny how you can never remember falling asleep Ama it is just me You can remember being sleepy, but that transition into slumber is always wiped from our hard drives...

The first time I was in Soweto, I crossed the street in front of Mandela's house into a bar to have a shot called the Soweto toilet Yes, I had already gone to take the pictures in...