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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Where I come from, they don’t name a child until seven days and seven nights have passed They wait, because to name something is to give it life, and if you name the baby when...