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KISUMU

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My pal’s mom kicked the bucket two years ago. Her memorial was last Friday at their village, a place called Ugenya which is in Siaya District. For all you who have never been past Limuru, Siaya is in Nyanza. …

Kidum

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The call comes in one lunch hour when I’m chowing. It’s a friend of mine. The same one who recommended the book The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. A book I reviewed here and one which failed to expose …

Say cheese!

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This city is bigger than us. This city doesn’t belong to us. It’s a conduit, a tunnel, and we pass through it with dreams, hopes, disappointments, triumphs. By the way just so you know, this is not a poem. …

No hugs please!

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On a Thursday, 12^th Nov 2009 some suits sat in a boardroom in Cape Town. The next morning, I lost my job, me and a bunch of other bewildered writers who were writing for a magazine. The day …

Friday.

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Something about Saturdays that I love. The looseness of it all, the unaffected air that hangs. Saturdays is the day the lord has chosen. If Saturday was a person it would be like Toni Braxton licking an ice-cream. But …

The running man

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Every guy has a private moment. A time when they plunge into themselves and everything fades to grey. Some people have that moment in the car, sitting in traffic with that faraway look. Some have it in a bar, …