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Just what is male privilege?
A few years ago I walked into my bank. The pressure to buy my first car was brisk and my savings inadequate. I needed a loan. The loan officer looked me in the eye and shot straight, “are you married?” Why, I wondered. Part of me thought that the officer...
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My old flame
Say anything! Hanging out with no talks Quietly reading heaps of books Staying back just watching a movie We both love Taylor Perry Taking long strolls with no one else Sitting with someone and chatting for days Or years Time ain’t enough for us Talking...
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My American dream
The sight of your new born son was marveling, but that was nothing close to the sight of Philadelphia City, the city of brotherly love as the Americans call it. A city beautiful with incredible sky crappers, countless superhighways, clean wide streets...
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My American dream Part 2
You arrived in Kwetu village a few minutes before noon. The midday sun was up and intense and the roads to your home were dusty. Kwetu, where you were born and where a large chunk of your kin still lived, was about forty kilometers north of Watamu and...
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First seek to understand; then to be understood.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.― Ernest Hemingway. I saw this Hemingway quote the other day and it truly spoke to my heart. It felt like I’d been ripped open, blood spattered and all… and forced to stare into the mess. That’s...
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Don’t wait for the muse forever ― you have a right!
Today is a Thursday, and being a Thursday means looking back, right? I want us to look back together on the art of getting it done. Back in the day our fore fathers did not know how to read write, not in the literal sense anyway, but they narrated wonderful...
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Let’s stop the hypocrisy Kenyans! Gender Based Violence Doesn’t Start and End in Nyeri
This week Nyeri town has been in the news a lot! Everyone has been having a word or two to weigh in on how Nyeri women are the worst women on planet earth. Say what? You heard me. Part of it was bordering comedy, but this is no laughing matter people....
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Those irritating Whatsapp groups
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...
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Dating dot com Part III
Leaving Kimani’s* office makes me feel like a hero of sorts. I call my best friend across the country tell her all about it― what I told you in part II of the game. “Kimani gave you his number?” she gasps after I tell her how the afternoon was, bisecting...
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Mutahi Ngunyi may be a tribalist, but he's not alone.
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...
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The war on graft lacks goodwill from powers that be; but all is not lost.
When I saw the embattled anti-graft boss Mumo Matemu resign earlier this week I was engulfed with immense pity, then shame for our nation. I simply uttered Déjà vu. Kenya is one of the top thirty most corrupt countries in the world. How about that? I...
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Kenyans should be the last people to call South Africans xenophobic.
Dear ones! So the other day I’d gone to Meru town to shop for a few things. My sister had just traveled to shags with my laptop- bag and I needed to get another one as soon as possible. I walked into this large store in Meru town purchase a new laptop...
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Anne Lamott's very worthy advice on writing
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many...
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Expulsion of girls from school over pregnacy is immoral
News of the expulsion of eight girls from Moi Girls-Kapsowar Secondary school in Uasin-Gishu County hit me like a brick on the head. Expelled for being pregnant. Banned class. Barred from doing final exams. A future darkened… Just like that… There are...