Kids are highly inappropriate. And rude. That’s why they don’t get invited to parties. Kids think it’s appropriate to ask anybody their age. [Cue squeaky voice: how old are you?] They are always asking about your age. Maybe that’s …

A good black dress for a widow costs 37,000 shillings. That is if you import it. For another 3,000 shillings you get a black veil. But she didn’t want a veil because she didn’t want to cover her face. …

You remember the dark grainy night when your lover went into the rain and never came back. You sat on the old chair that belonged to your dead father and waited and waited and the rain stopped and the …

Ever been in such astonishing darkness that when you breathe in you feel darkness slide inside you? The kind of darkness that grips the earth in a tight fist. So dark you don’t recall what sunlight looks like? Now …

You’ve never seen a grimmer-looking group of people enter a building than the morning throng of humanity trooping into Milimani Law Courts. They boot by in various shades of silence, mostly preoccupied, as if what’s happening to them is …