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I’m the kind of guy who makes decisions in his digs. I’m clinically decisive. I don’t wobble and fumble about with decisions. I make tough calls all the time. There are no referendums in my house, no mlolongo system, …

Farouk, The Redemption

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Everybody has been green around the gills. We are talking malaria, flu, bowel dysfunction, ulcers, chicken pox and even to some – like Benjaps – herpes. Hehe. But none of you can even claim to have had a bout …

At the feet of God.

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It’s like a reed-like bathroom. You can see outside through these interspersed reeds, but it’s useless because beyond the reeds is darkness. But there is a stone. Onto this stone, you balance the metallic stainless steel basin. The water …

Lessons in Malindi

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Sunday night, I’m seated towards the end of a long dinner table, which are basically three or so tables rammed together to create that Romanian effect. The restaurant is in White Elephant hotel, an Italian spoon in Malindi; small, …

Pretty boys…

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I like boxing. It’s crude and primal. It’s blood, gore and aggression. And it’s down dirty. You use your knuckles to pound another man’s head until they submit to you. Until they hit the canvas and

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How men break…

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There are days he doesn’t close his front door, mostly Saturday mornings. I find the door ajar. At 10a.m light floods the living room, light from the gigantic full-length windows across the room. There are no curtains. He has …