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Before It Sets You Free, Life Beats You Up.

5th December 2020

Before Life Sets You Free, It Beats You Up.

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Before it sets you free, life beats you up. It spits on you, curses you and drags you on the dirt. Before it exalts you, it crushes your spirit and breaks your faith. It deems you worthless. Like a beggar on the streets. And even after all this, your freedom is not guaranteed. I have…

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26th November 2020

Is Anyone To Blame For The Inequality Of The World?

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Growing up, I was always angry at my mother and my grandmother for not working hard enough to buy me the things I desired. Things that according to me, were basic things to have because every other kid in my neighbourhood had them. Things like a bicycle, remote controlled toy cars and a leather football.…

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24th July 2020

Ignore The pressure, It Is Okay.

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Is it wrong to feel sad because of this Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Is it unacceptable to be out of sorts because there are lock-downs and curfews and uncommon restrictions on how one interacts with ones family, ones friends and other people? Why is everyone making it feel criminal to think and worry about…

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21st July 2020

Holding A Fart Is Harder Than Releasing It – Always Remember!

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I bet you do not remember the shock on your face when you let out your first fart. You either found it disgusting, or fun, depending on the social class you were born into. Truth is, you did not understand it, yet when it continued to happen again and again, you either tried to imprison…

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5th June 2020

Greedy People Are Patient People, Sometimes.

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Are poor people powerless because they are poor or are they poor because they are powerless? Also, are most rich people powerful because of their riches, or are they rich because they are powerful? Oliver cannot seem to put his head around this shit. And he really hates it when he cannot get his head…

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1st June 2020

The Story of A Hopeless Girl Called Hope.

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They say that ‘nothing can dim the light that shines from within.’ But when Oliver stared into Hope’s eyes, there was no light. Not even a glimmer of ambition. What was there was an emptiness and a darkness and deadness so powerful that it was infectious. The more Hope spoke, the more Oliver felt his…

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18th May 2020

Wanja Didn’t Like My Armpits.

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As far as Oliver is concerned, it is easier to spend the whole day counting the grains of rice in a 50kg bag than to approach a girl. He would rather become a clown, dedicating all his life to wearing ridiculous make up and sticking a big round red nose on his face, amusing children…

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People don't die, they simply ran ahead.

16th May 2020

People Don’t Die; They Ran Ahead.

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When he was dying that Friday night, I was having a cold Guinness as I grilled T-bone steaks because that’s what people do on Friday nights. Not that he preferred dying to eating meat, no. In fact, he loved meat. He loved his meat grilled in charcoal, tender and juicy. Perhaps he liked it this…

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2nd May 2020

I’m In A Relationship, But It’s Complicated.

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I get off on many things in life. Except math. Math is frustrating. Math is like trying to untangle tangled up earphone cables in a hurry – you only make it worse by trying harder. I consider that it is because of my relationship with math that I do not also trust people who say…

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17th March 2020

There Is Nothing Casual About COVID-19

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I won’t lie, I am frightened. I am frightened because Kenya now has 4 confirmed cases of COVID-19. I am more frightened because I do not know how many more people have contracted it that haven’t presented themselves to hospitals. Initially, it seemed like an ‘outside Africa’ problem – how inaccurate a thought! The virus…

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23rd January 2020

CHEQUE-MATE.

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Dear Client, Picture the good Lord – in brilliant white robes like burning magnesium – standing next to ravishing Golden Gates holding a paper that shines like the sun. That paper gleams like the cheques you are supposed to give me after I complete your assignment. Penned on that paper in indelible golden ink is…

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President Of Kenya H.E Uhuru Kenyatta gulping his favourite drink, beer.

10th October 2019

What’s Behind The Image?

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Does 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 these things. I…

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4th September 2019

Black.

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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. In so deep…

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31st August 2019

Nocturnal Enuresis & Being A Form 4.

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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 to let this…

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20th August 2019

There Is No Title For This One.

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As 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 fact, I have…

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14th July 2019

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

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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 has to excel. She…

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10th July 2019

One Does Not Break The Hand Of A Farmer.

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“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 readers who are…

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3rd July 2019

Pain Cannot Accurately Be Defined.

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I 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 know it does…

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3rd July 2019

Building To Demolish Because The Time Is Not Now.

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Anyone 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 for a while…

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13th June 2019

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

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The 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 also terminal! Some…

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11th June 2019

Men Must Talk.

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It 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 men don’t cry.…

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