It would have been different, the outcome Had you been everything you thought you were I have this memory of us in bed, we hugged, said good night to each other Lights out I felt...

Whatever evil spirit told me to go to High Court that Friday evening must have been sent by someone who does not see for me well I could have just stayed at home and chilled with...

At the age of six, I was learning to use the words uncle and aunty loosely They didn’t necessarily have to mean a blood relative, but rather someone who spent their time a lot...

As if being an early teenager is not complicated enough, you just had to be different You deal with the normal confusions of what it means to grow into yourself - hairs where none...

Towards the end of the turbulent forties, men came back from the great war slinging more than just gun They came with guitars too They came with music They were African soldiers...

When you start approaching 30, it feels like everything is closing in on you Life develops a certain urgency to it Wherever you look, people start talking about what you should or...

Often, history is told by the people leading the conversation The problem with the history of Mombasa, however, is that there have been so many people who have had something to...

The call came in when I was at my cousin’s place It was during those early days of the pandemic when tissue paper was more valuable than common sense, curfew was at 7pm, and the...

“I know his brother, Magunga, is seeing what Deo is doing and is now challenged to also perform better this term” That is what Mr Odipo, the head of Careers Department (and...

We'd debate who in our gang would get married first There was Chess, James, Maitha, Kibz, Paul and myself  We couldn’t agree on the order, but my money was on either Paul or...

  1 It's dark outside and no one can really hear you cry You don't even know you're crying until the sharp weight on your chest makes you sit up, and a tear rolls down your...

There are those people who went to one primary school from Class One to Class Eight Then the same high school from Form One to Form Four The same with university Those ones will...