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10th October 2019

What’s Behind The Image?

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes Uhuru Kenyatta fart in his blankets? Does he make it worse by sniffing around as if hoping that this time it’ll smell like citronella? I know he’s the president but, si he is a person at the end of the day? And let us not lie, normal people [read: boys] do…

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4th September 2019

Black.

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Reading Time: 5 minutes I had never spoken to her before in my life. But when I did, she couldn’t hear anything I was saying. Love can be as deaf as it is blind and as blind as it is deaf. She couldn’t see the point I was making either. Because she was in love.…

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31st August 2019

Nocturnal Enuresis & Being A Form 4.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Maybe the devil isn’t a lier. Maybe we just put the blame on him to make ourselves feel better. Because blaming someone or something other than yourself is somewhat relieving. In the spirit of the devil and lies and blames, I wasn’t blaming anyone for my mistakes today. I wasn’t going…

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20th August 2019

There Is No Title For This One.

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Reading Time: 6 minutesAs I quickly write this blog, I am struggling to find what it is for. Like what it’s purpose is. But then my blog has been quite dormant and I am under a lot of internal (and external) pressure to write. I have not been writing because I like not writing. In…

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14th July 2019

What Happens To You After Men Have Gone Back Their Wives?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes A village in the middle of nowhere celebrates the achievement of one of their daughters who just passed her national exams and has now been called to a renown university in Nairobi. She carries the hopes of an entire people. And off she goes to the big city. She knows she…

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10th July 2019

One Does Not Break The Hand Of A Farmer.

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Reading Time: 6 minutes“Mūrīmi ndaunagūo gūoko.” Said a person who I have neither heard nor seen. I am not even sure if that is the correct way to write what they said, but of importance here is life… sorry I mean… of importance here is that you understand what he is saying. For you my…

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3rd July 2019

Pain Cannot Accurately Be Defined.

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Reading Time: 5 minutesI tend to think that life is a kite suspended in air. One moment in this direction, the other moment in that direction. I don’t know how yours is. But mine changed just like a kite in the wind that day, a day that will forever be fresh in my memory. I…

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3rd July 2019

Building To Demolish Because The Time Is Not Now.

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAnyone who knows anything knows that once in a while, hitting that reset button is an important thing to do in life. Because I am among those people who know things and therefore how important it is to press that button, two weeks ago, I pressed it. I had been considering it…

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13th June 2019

Let Us Not Forget The 80s, 90s & Early 2000s.

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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe air they breathed was contaminated with sadness and death. The environment was littered with desperation and confusion. And the sky? Well it was was pregnant with disease and it poured down on them fear. Word had spread like wildfire. A mystery murrain was here, and it was not only terrifying but…

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11th June 2019

Men Must Talk.

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIt was a Glenlivet 15 that Joe (not his real name) liked to have when he felt the way he was feeling today. He had concluded that it was the only drink that understood him, met his needs and provided him a shoulder to cry on. Not that he cried though, because…

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23rd April 2019

Few Things Last Forever.

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Reading Time: 5 minutesHad he not looked in that direction, Oliver would never have know what the essence of life is. He was not sure whether he had seen a prettier girl in his life ever before. He wasn’t even sure whether he had seen a girl before in his life (apologies, he often doesn’t…

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17th April 2019

You Know What, Fuck It!

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Reading Time: 3 minutesHe said my blog was down, that it bores him when he has to come here looking for beautiful new stories then he has to bear the disappointment of finding none. He emphasised that consistency is very important if I am to make my blog a success. He continued to say that…

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10th April 2019

Does Your Wallet Make You Happy?

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Reading Time: 5 minutesOn a little stool near the glass table lies a brown wallet. It was bought one random evening on a street in South B at 9PM in the night. Oliver assumes that the Maasai who he bought it from had walked all the way from Kajiado to South B (72.6 km) just…

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2nd April 2019

Don’t Gaze At Ceilings, It’s A Trap!

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Reading Time: 4 minutesA little SQ somewhere in South B is a cremation chamber. Global warming has decided to warm this tiny overpriced structure a little bit more than anywhere else. It is very quiet, this place. A silence that has a dullness in it. But is there anything as complete silence? Is there not…

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28th March 2019

Content Creation VS Content Retention.

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Reading Time: 4 minutesAs a content creator, I believe that video is the future of communication. You can already see it. Over the past few years, there has suddenly occurred a need by social media companies to create live statuses and live streaming. WhatsApp brought to us WhatsApp status – which is essentially a place…

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