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A Portrait At Five

A Portrait At Five

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Lying in bed with a wicked malaria fever, I’d hear the distant sound of a football being kicked in the far distance, and the rising and falling of players’ voices. I was maybe four or five. We lived in

Don’t Bang The Door

Don’t Bang The Door

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Dear Reader,

Yesterday I woke up at 4 am and later dropped Tamms off to school. Then I came back home at 8 am and did something that was completely out of my character; I got back in bed

Postcard From Ukraine

Postcard From Ukraine

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I’m writing this from Dnipro Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine. It’s an old monstrous Eastern European hotel with long corridors, blue old carpet, old wooden armchairs, and an imposing white grand piano when the elevator doors open on the 11th floor.

Nyasi Safi

Nyasi Safi

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This is going to be a quickie. 

Two quickies, actually. 

First quickie. 

I woke up today and thought about that night in 1996 in Brunei when fans got to the Bandar Seri Begawan amphitheatre and waited hours. The young

It’s Us, Not Them

It’s Us, Not Them

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By Eddy Ashioya

It was ten to 11 PM when the lights went out. Close your eyes. Yes, that kind of darkness. Like that Kenya Power rogue monkey had cut off power. A cough here. A whistle there. A