No Known Next Of Kin

No Known Next Of Kin

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The cat you see in that photo? That’s Oatmeal.

She’d dead.

She died on Saturday morning. Rather, she was discovered dead on Saturday morning. She could have died at night, or early morning – there wasn’t any post-mortem done. …

Baboons Are Coming

Baboons Are Coming

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His full beard looks itchy but you’ve never seen him touch it. He’s taller than average, his fingers the length of the longest sentence. He’s 34. He was married. Then he wasn’t. It’s been a year since that went …

Big Little Fights

Big Little Fights

195

I once lived next to a cool kid of Nairobi. I had turned 40, and a few years prior, I had swung the steering wheel of my life sharply, sending it in a direction I wasn’t fully in control …

We Let The Devil In

We Let The Devil In

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Wandia, their first born, was born with jaundice. He saw her hours later in the little incubator with her eyes covered. He wasn’t in the delivery room because he doesn’t believe that men should witness childbirth. “The men before …

Three Decades

Three Decades

198

I’ve written about this before, however between 2005-2007 I worked for Village Market, marketing department. Good times. It’s the only time I ever weighed 92kgs. No children, no wife, I was doing little, eating more. Life was very silky. …