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WAPI: To one his own

Mzee Kiko | Septuagenerian's view Exactly eighty-nine years after Matthew Murrey's rack locomotive, called The Salamanca started work for the Narrow Guage Midleton railway in the United Kingdom in 1812, The railway line between Mombasa and Kisumu was completed. That railway line, passed not far from ...

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Red Streaks

This is a call out for entries into the third part of The Quarterly Colour Series of Poetry, Red Streaks. The Quarterly Colour Series of poetry are a series of free ebooks, published by Al Kags every three months. The first two ebooks of the ...

Levert, go well.

I was shocked to read today that Gerald Levert, left, passed away about 9 days ago. I wonder how I missed the news but well. I first came into contact with Gerald Levert when I was a boy and he had just released that Song, "I'll ...

Old Dog learns a new trick

Mzee Kiko | A Septuagenerian view I am seated outside my house on the Ngong' Hills over looking to one side the planes that spread flat eastwards and southwards to Nairobi and beyond, over the Nairobi national park, in which i see from a distance, the ...

I belong, by Toutatis

It did not hit me until I was well into the Uhuru Park walk way how nice I felt. It was dusk and the lights within the park had come on. The fast dimming lights of the fading day still illuminated the lush well cut ...

Kenya cabinet reactions: initial reaction

By Udi Waithaka President Mwai Kibaki has today reappointed Prof. George Saitoti and Hon Kiraitu Murungi back into their original dockets - Education and Energy respectively. He also appointed 9 new assistant ministers to the already blotted cabinet. The two ministers were dropped because they were under ...

Umuhimu wa maji

Looking through my past emails, i found this one. Gikuyus will find it funny. Riu ona nii ndaririkana murata wakwa witaguo Mbogo turi std. 6 tuerituo tuandike insha hindi ya kigeranio kia muico wa term Topic yari, "Umuhimu wa Maji" Mbogo insha yake andikire uu: "Maji ni ...

Our cyle, our lives

A pregnant woman and a child were this week killed at the Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya, in a spate of flash floods that have left many homeless.  According to Mr. Eddie Gedalof, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees acting representative in Kenya, many ...

And once again South Africa leads…!

Going to South Africa is normally a fairly daunting experience for most Africans.  Not much about it is “standard” African issue: not the cities, not the lifestyle – certainly not the economy. Even their problems are closer to being European than African. In many ways, ...

Write round about town

There is a homeless woman in Woodlands, UK who started a blog chronicling her life. The unnamed woman who prefers to maintain the identity wandering scribe, lives in her car - sleeping on the front seats, with all her possessions in the back - has ...