David Majak
It’s always hot The heat is unprecedented We sweat all the time, without the privileged benefit of air conditioning or rainfall You can’t really get comfortable This is what...
Miseh Segero
In my dreams, I am standing right at the heart of one of the most important soccer stadiums in the world Maybe Camp Nou, or Wembley I can’t hear my heartbeat over the sound of a...
The patient
On Wednesday you get home from dance class, exhausted, but that is expected It is not normal, but it is not strange either That night you get home, and as soon as you walk in,...
Catarina
The way this story ends is I end up in Barcelona, wondering how I can learn Spanish in 10 days, looking around this sunny seaside city in awe that somehow, my little unassuming...
Mama Cera
He’s back home and I don’t know what to tell him I never know what to tell him anymore Nothing I say helps Nothing I do makes a difference I look at the baby in the corner...
Nairobi Living
So here’s the hardest thing about living in Nairobi And I know I said it was the dating, in my last story But I think we all know what is actually the hardest thing about...
The bundle of joy
The thing is, I’m single again, and quite honestly, I don’t even believe it I say I’m single again like it happened last week, but it’s actually been an entire year since...
The WhiteCap Man
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...
Depth over distance
Some of the best stories ever written begin with so there is this girl, right and this one is one of those She moved into our neighborhood when I was in Class 7 She was my...
The perfect hand
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...
You did this
[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)...
The place of ostriches
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...
