If COVID-19 happened in the 80’s

Kenya can be quite interesting. And yes, in both sides of the coin. To Kenyans, based on the fact that the coin would be more interesting, they wouldn’t at first think both sides of the coin represented both positive and negative aspects & perspectives. Though, what again do you expect from a nationality now identified […]

1998

A casual, unintended nudge was all it took for the bottle of water to fall from the skyscraper window, and the executive officer paused to look, as it fell, trying to figure out whether he should follow it……….and then it later landed on the tarmac, spilling the remainder of the water it had. As it […]

The Tip of the Iceberg

If you ask me, karma is the parallel life that we live trying to get our attention, only we brush it off as mere coincidence, and only pay attention to what it reveals only when either necessary or appropriate. A suicide will be committed because the desire of escape to a parallel life is needed, […]

Ndoto za Banglapesa

Around 2am, it had gotten mysteriously darker, and the constellations had already started showing. Suddenly, constellations began taking shapes they had never taken before.One constellation was even moving, which was of an aeroplane, and it was illuminated as if it was a blueprint.Many constellations began taking that aeroplane shape, lighting up the sky as the […]

Bila Soup This Month

“………The entire street had somehow stopped, mesmerized by all we were doing there. Even the ladies and gents of before, who once had grabbed the attention of the Kenyans stuck on traffic jams, having left their cars for the brief moment of escape through watching their Kikuyu waltz, had joined us as everyone was in […]

Twice a Wounded Child

We went out, armed with a purpose fueled by the venom spewed through a microphone, and we chopped them all because we were the ones who thought were right, like a Kenyan parent. Drip. Blood mingled with the raindrops falling from the iron roof, with both joining up to be a subtle reminder of that […]

Trembling: Another Day in Busaradise

Loitoktok. Years after Jack survived the death scare, and she had spent a decade and a half with her fellow Zebras……… And here we go again, the words crossing Stella’s mother’s mind as she leaned on the verandah, watching Another Day in Busaradise. As she looked at them all, lost in their worlds of escape, […]

Trembling

At around 4p.m, they were strolling down the street, AK47s and G3s in hand. To them, it was payback time for all the humiliation they have continued to face from the mwananchi. It wasn’t even 7p.m, but Kenyans were being beaten like drums, with the order to go home being screamed out loud. What was […]

Let’s Watch a Bollywood Movie!

Jina Tamu was a woman whose children and patrons never understood. Then again, these were times when many people never understood why their indulgences and secret pastimes were now going to be a thing of the past. For many of Jina Tamu’s customers, like the one & only Baba Karis, their greatest fear was staying […]

The Quarantine Era: August Without a Gust

I had seen my own fair share of August Without a Gust, and the miraculous thing was that I actually lived to tell such tales, which if you ask me, I never imagined at all. The one thing I never thought even Baba Karis had done, was sand harvesting, which was where he unfortunately lost […]