If you have a smart phone you’ve probably been invited to WhatsApp groups that you want nothing to do with. I mean your data has been inactive say for the last eight hours. Now you’ve just settled on the sofa at primetime to watch some TV, you just switched...

So the other day Mutahi Ngunyi called all Luos and Luhyas a poverty stricken lot and sent #KOT a.k.a Kenyans on Twitter on a frenzy. Mad. Rattled. #KOT was up in arms against him, one of the finest Kenyan mind, an intellectual, don of the university (just...

Months ago at an event, a close friend of mine met this old friend of hers. The first thing this old friend said is this: What an awful dress! “Kate, So and So told me that my dress was awful.” “What what what?” I was seriously running out of ‘the whats’...

Someday, somewhere, someone will love you exactly as you are. I was telling my teenage sister these words today in the morning. Last week on Wednesday I got a call from her school. Out of respect for the school, I’ll keep it anonymous for now. It was...