I have always been that kid who only shows promise but is never the best at anything. If I knew how to switch off that…
While parents from other continents take their children to school, we Africans are sent to school. That etymology has never ceased to baffle me, “sending…
There is a reason I call my mom Mother Karua. It is because of the kind of person she used to be when we were…
I love meat. I always have. Sometimes people do not just understand just how much I am committed to my relationship with meat. If you…
[Final Part. Proceeds from Part 4] You spent your entire campus life promising other girls what you had already given to Ma. But you denied…
Sometimes jaber cruises us down Thika Road in her Toyota Cami. It is a small car and when the needle slides past 80, it registers…
Cartoon by Bwana Mdogo The one thing I hate more than a Maranda High School pit latrine is shitty internet. That is, assuming they still…
The last day I will see you, you will call me into your bedroom, and I will ensure I am wearing the torn blue and…
I have been searching my brain for his name, but it just won’t come. All I have are vague memories of his face, and receding…
