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Grey Spots

I have just published the first of the quarterly "Colour" ebooks, called Gray Spots. Do download it and enjoy it as much as you will. Read it, Republish the work, Share it, do with it what you will - just attribute it to the writer. Featured this ...

I’m tired.

Its 5:16am on Tuesday 5th September 2006 and I look at the clock and realise that the night has just whizzed by. I have been sitting here since 9pm last night holding a pack of valium and feeling depressed. I have decided to write this, ...

Get of you behind, Africa, and compete

The argument of compensation is a misguided farce August 28, 2006                      By Al Kags As I do every Sunday, I read Prof. Ali Mazrui’s column in the Sunday Standard but having read this Sunday’s edition, I realise that he has brought to the fore my consternation ...

She’s dancing in the wind

It was time. She was alone. She has lived well. Her dress is long and white Her dreadlocks are long and tied. The light slowly comes on and she knows he’s here The time to dance has come. She’s ready. Her skin is glowing and her spirit is willing She smells ...

bear your soul… and so i did

bear your soul ”my dear friend, bear your soul bleed the blood root of your pain you have nothing but to gain a heart that is whole..”  So read the verse, And so I did.   For the first time in my entire life, I got up strolled to the great wall that surrounds my psyche ...

Guy, Remember the Fifth of November

Digital Essay Nairobi, Kenya "Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason be forgot. but what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and i know that in 1605 he intended ...

kiswahili cha tukuzwa kweli?

Nimekua nikiwaza kwamba hii lugha yetu pengine imedidimia kiasi kwamba hakuna atakae ijibu blogi hii. Aghalabu ni kwamba kiswahili sanifu hakizungumzwi tena humu nchini na hata nadra zaidi huko ulaya. Nivipi hivi sisi wana-nyayo tumekipuuza kiswahili kama ambae hatukukisoma? Katika kazi yangu nimeona biashara kadhaa ambazo ...

Amenipa juju! Do you know Auntie Dote?

Amenipa Juju! Ah, who would have thought that I would have to face these issues, today? After all these years of being decidedly single and unwilling to mingle that way. All these years of being the the third leg, who would have thought that the predominant ...