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What if Hillary Clinton was a man?
So, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee, is due to face off with Donald Trump, her Republican counterpart this November in one of the most charged election cycles in America’s history. To say that this journey hasn’t been easy is to completely...
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Things I would buy with the Eurobond
Things I would buy with Eurobond money Twitter followers We live in the social error (pun intended), and the level of happiness of most social media users is greatly influenced the number of of likes, retweets, ‘friends’ or followers. (Please readers,...
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Five Star Luo Love: What it means
They say that as a woman, you haven’t really been loved until you’ve been loved by a ja’Luo man. Gospel truth! So, have you? What is it about Luo men that can’t get Kenyan women shutting up? Is it the flamboyance? The elegance? The attention? Heh! Ja’Luo...
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'It's not you, it's me' in the digital era
Breaking up is hard, however, breaking up in this information age is even harder. That’s because it’s impossible not to know the whereabouts of your ex-lover. Before social media you would have, today forgetaboutit! Even if Facebook doesn’t tell you directly,...
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Map your own Life
Nearly all the women I know are worrying themselves over the pathological fear that they are failing at life, which is absolutely crazy―flat out bananas―because the women I know are doing a lot, and they do it well. Without naming names for instance;...
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What friendship is not
We spend most of our lives trying to connect with people, trying to find that niche, that common ground….that friendship. It’s a natural, normal human desire. My mom calls it a negotiation; like a business deal of sorts. So we negotiate relationships...
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Why Hillary? Why Hillary Clinton will be good for Africa
What an eventful weekend this has been in the US presidential race! Donald Trump was caught on tape, pants on fire, basically bragging about sexually assaulting women eleven years ago. He defended himself by claiming to have been an impressionable 59-year...
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Judas Kiss PART 3
As soon as I placed the phone on the coffee table, my mind went blank. I felt contempt for the cold, half-eaten French fries and chicken on the white plate, how ironical considering how greedily I’d munched the food just minutes before. My entire body...
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That mean girl that we all know.
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’...
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Powerplay: The gender debate
I was speaking with my mother on phone the other day about their unpaid September salaries, and putting the whole fiasco aside, mom said something that totally knocked me out of my foundation. “You know Kate, this is why women should never be allowed...
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Fear of darkness
Lately I’ve been super-jumpy. Whenever it’s dark, I’m afraid. Totally afraid! Freaked out of my mind! Totally! I don’t know when this fear of darkness started but I’ll tell you a story of a very nasty experience I had last night. Our neighborhood is in...
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Kitchen Toto to Ambassador by Philip Gichuru Gitonga ― Book review
Kitchen Toto to Ambassador is a biography by Amb. Philip G. Gitonga. The book is about his journey from a humble cook in a Whiteman’s home during the pre-colonial era to a senior government official after Kenya’s independence. From a humble teacher, he...
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Religious leaders are wrong-- atheists are not the problem.
Religious leaders are at it again! Just when you thought they couldn’t be dumber, well…... They are now up in arms against the Society of Atheists in Kenya after the High court registered them the other day. Kenya has a myriad of problems and a belief...
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Judas Kiss PART 2
PART 2 On the armchair by the bedroom window I snapped my fingers back and forth. My soul was lost in a thoughtless melancholy. The bedroom was still a mess; tissues still scattered, empty whiskey bottle toppled over and curtains still drawn and unmade...
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Misogyny won.
Someone attempted to rape my sister close to seventeen years ago. She was ten at the time. Mom and dad were away on a work related trip. She and my four year old brother had been left under the care of a family friend, or so my folks thought. “He brought...
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Mulama series― Part II
The floodgates of heaven are literally open, now more than ever. It’s been raining nonstop for days. While driving to work this morning, my car, that old junk of a Toyota Premio, was almost carried away by flooding water. Damn these floods! You’d think...
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The Pressure to Impress
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...
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When your one true love already had his one true love
The first time I met Maina was at a magazine publishing company in Westlands, Nairobi, where I worked as a junior photographer. I was just fresh out of college and on my first job. “Please come in Buyanzi,” my boss said. “Buyanzi, Maina. Maina, Buyanzi.”...
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A loyalty pledge.
By birthday is usually the start of a New Year for me; just like 1st of January means the world to most people. To me, my birthday is usually for me the time to do all those things that people do on January 1st. Things like resolutions and the like are...
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Nkatha's Fate― Part 2
The men guarding the entrance of the shrine couldn’t let Nkatha pass. It was an order from above. She was subject to punishment over her behavior towards the Mighty Njuri Ncheke elders and her infidelity to her husband. Two crimes! Serious ones! Especially...
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The one night stand Part I
The smell of stale cigarette smoke is hovering all over my head. The sounds of unsophisticated contemporary music is invading the air― Furi Furi by Jimmy Gait being one of them― and I’m left wondering why such songs play here, in this bar, or any bar...
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The one night stand Part II
It’s been three years since William and I were fooling around at the back of his car. Ha! How fast time flies! William is a memory, a vivid one though, kept in my most private journal for the last three years. And not just there, of course, the soft copy...
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Obama the surrogate
At the final White House Correspondents’ dinner on the 29th of April this year, President Obama made a joke about the prospects of a female president before dropping the mic. This was his first ever public hint that he was With Her. Hillary Clinton been...
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Nkatha's Fate- Part One
Nkatha was summoned at the Njuri Ncheke council of elders on this day, three months ago. It was on a Tuesday. This was at their shrine aka bunge in Njeru along the Meru-Maua road. She knelt next to the wooden bed, lifted the overhanging blanket, tilted...
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Nkatha's Fate― Part 3
Mwenda and Kimathi were in school, unaware what had befallen their mother. Their lives away from home was modus operandi; from attending classes to playing ball to wrestling with their peers at break time among other school activities. School was distracting...