Wueh! I have been preparing myself psychologically to write, and when I finally got to this blank canvas, I thought of my first line, and all I had to say was that term we proud Kenyans use when wueh is wuehing. Okay, seriously, it’s used as an exclamation when things get really tough or incomprehensible, […] More
Have you ever had a crush on someone so insanely, up until the day you learnt something about them and the crush turned into crushed? Maybe you finally got the balls to walk up to them and say, “Hey shawry?” Or for the ladies, you did a Kansime feat that got you noticed. Upon starting […] More
My cousin was encouraging me to join the military. No, he was not kidding and neither was I when I said maybe in a movie or in my next life! He is a soldier himself. First time I saw him carry a machine gun, leave alone this pepetas the boys in blue carry to maandamano […] More
She was in the washroom when she picked my call that day. I have avoided using any other terminology because I badly wanted to say, ‘the crapper.’ I don’t go to the crapper with my phone. Okay, I have tried once or twice and ascertained that it doesn’t work for me. The number of people […] More
That marriage felt like drowning in the ocean. Not that you don’t know how to swim, but the vastness of the water and the raging waves make you look like you don’t. I am not bad with women, I mean, at least I know how to treat them well. My mother taught me that, like […] More
He was just a town boy living in the village. When you have not grown up in the village, and at some point, life catapults you all the way from Lagos to a maize plantation in the middle of Ijebu-Igbo village, everyone knows you’re a rooster from the city. You smell like the city. You […] More
That Sunday afternoon found him saying Amen along with hundreds of other saints to the closing prayer led by the Pastor. Sundays are good days for him because he gets to spend more of the day in church. But this particular Sunday was bound to be longer than usual. He strolls through a parade of […] More
I have amended what I was to write for this blog three times. This is the third amendment and I am sorry to say, the floor of the house has to pass it. Interestingly, it is the thing that came at the last minute just before I opened my notepad. Sometimes no matter how much […] More
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