Thinking Out Loud
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THE NEW WUEH OF LIFE!
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
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A CRUSH IS A SCAM
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
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DICKS BEFORE CHICS
There is a sermon commonly preached to boys. It’s preached to them and then they are bathed in oath to it. Like young boys in the village, they are initiated into manhood. Their rich African skin colour like the black cotton soil with mad smeared all over their bodies as they stand naked before a […] More
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THE TRUTH BEHIND ANONYMOUS MESSAGING
I thought about it for a while. About whether I should also do it or not. Do I really want to know? More like, am I ready to face other people’s opinions? In as much as it kept bugging me, “What you don’t know doesn’t kill you”, I consoled myself as I brushed off the […] More
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WHY HE HASN'T PROPOSED YET! (II)
“A man is still a man whether him rich or poor black or white for sure. The only difference is whether him good or evil.” Morgan Heritage. And that is a fact y’all ladies have got to live knowing. You cannot count the number of times your girls have told you that the man you […] More
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WHY HE HASN'T PROPOSED YET!
Is he your man or you just assumed that he is your man? He is the man you have never had. You struggled to hold your drool those days you’d see him but couldn’t do anything to draw his attention to you. The only one you have ever mentioned your secret admiration of him to […] More
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TWO LESSONS I'M STILL CARRYING INTO 2020 (II)
And on to lesson number two that will wrap up this edition. In case you’ve just come across this, the general lesson in all this is simply learning not to live in oblivion. You have heard people say, “Expect the unexpected.” (Read the first episode here.) We often put in mind those things we desire […] More
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TWO LESSONS I'M STILL CARRYING INTO 2020
Well mjango, today marks another successful year in my blogging journey. Oh trust me it has crossed my mind several times about whether to still carry on but the fact that you, yes you – are still committed to reading me here is what keeps me going. You folks don’t know what level of joy […] More
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DESIDERATA
There are infinite tips of spears that poke our backs day in and day out in life. It either tears the flesh on our bodies or we heal but not without evidences of scars. I have not lived life long enough to say so much about it. Even the good book says people who have […] More
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