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 neon sign on my forehead that screams PROMISE, I would This...

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 a child to school’ And...

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 growing up These days, old age has done a number on her White hair,...

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 do not want me to visit you again, make me bad...

[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 it because you did not want her to see...

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 a formal complaint It starts trembling the way a...

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 are the same way I left them in 2008 But...

This is not the school that sits at the center of Bondo District, no It stands at the heart of it The highest point in all of Bondo is where some Anglican missionaries saw fit to...

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 white striped shirt, and worn out shoes It always throws you into...

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 hairline; my high school’s Games Master I was...

She brags of a brain so good it wrote one of the best dissertations in her year She graduated with a second class honors, upper division And it was not just any other second...

ecause you are in form one, you have no clue about saving You are a spendthrift with your pocket money, and you use your bidhaa carelessly Bidhaa is what you call goodies in your...