Last borns are meant to remain home  It is the way of our people Last born sons, that is that is Luo tradition says that the girls get married and leave to go start their own...

I don’t remember much from my first funeral We stood in line, waiting to view the body When it was my turn, I observed how the body was ashy, its arms stiff by their sides,...

Everyone watched as the world slowed down to a silence At the time, nobody really cared that it was happening There was no way a virus chomping up a portion of Asia could survive...

There was a time when phones had memories smaller than a pup’s Mine was a hand me down from my elder brother; a Nokia that opened up like a laptop, with a keypad arranged just...

When I think about it, the most pivotal moments of my career have been shaped by someone asking me, “Can you sing” The first one was Chizi Everyone knew Chizi It was hard to...

That is not how he had thought he would die It is not even the place he thought he would be when he finally returned his soul to its owner above Granted, he had not really thought...

Many years ago in the roaring 60s, two men built an unlikely friendship Every night, the story goes, they would leave work and meet up for a pint, and everything else that comes...

Even though you are only meeting him for the first time, within the first few minutes, he makes you feel like you two have known each other forever When your Uber pulls to a stop...

[I wrote this as part of the script for Too Early for Birds - Tom Mboya edition Written from the POV of a Luo man in 1969, the idea was to capture the (biased, yet legitimate)...

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...

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 - She could not remember the exact moment she forgot her name, or what time it was, what she was doing, what she was thinking But she was sure she was running or thinking of...