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Shining moments

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Many many moons ago boys often met behind a block of classes of the primary school I attended to sort out their differences. We were in lower primary and we felt strongly that the sun shouldn’t go down on …

Gor Mahia

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What is unequivocally male? It can’t be a beard because there are women with hair on their chins. And knees. It can’t be a deep voice either (you should hear the “lady” at the fuel station I fuel at …

Nairobi

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They stagger out of the International Arrivals like extras in the TV series The Walking Dead. They’re knackered, bleary-eyed, haggard and dejected. They nonchalantly drag their suitcases behind them like cavemen dragging home their dead dinner. Some have swollen …

Tales from Borana

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I’m a “closeted” hat kind of guy. Which means, I love hats but I look like a peacock in them. I have five different type of hats which all hang in my bedroom like abandoned tools in a tool …

Bed 22

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Here is what really gets my goat; when people eat fish using a fork. Or when they have it with chapatti as the accompaniment of choice. Or when they eat it and leave the head lying there; untouched, lonely …

Thirties Guy

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My landlord’s son, Paul, is fascinated by me. I can tell. And you would understand why; he’s the only boy in a family of four girls (all older) and apart from his schoolmates, and his father who must be …