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Black and Proud: why?

After watching the rerun of the 2007 BET awards on TV, a special friend of mine and I got into a discussion on the phone that went on late into the middle of the night. The discussion was centred around the concept behind the statement, ...

I am romantic! I am!

i am very romantic... i can show you - check this out. I come over to your place in my jalopy to pick you up, give you some bourgan villea flowers, walk you to my car and get it and wait patiently while you struggle ...

Is right or wrong standard or relative?

One of my close friends recently became saved - and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord of his life. He had been coming towards this point of his life for a while and this was no surprise. We had lunch recently and just so that I ...

Essentially, Woman

Great artists become great because they were nurtured in some way by some woman or women somewhere, in the same way that great people become great because some woman somewhere cared. As she cooked and cleaned and bathed and rebuked and spanked and worked and ...

Nairobi is on 24 hours, thanks to Nakumatt

I can now officially confirm that Nairobi is well on its way to being a 24 hour city - Nakumatt by Nakumatt. it started a few months back when Kenya's leading department store, or hypermarket as we call them here, made the small Nakumatt Ukay ...

Momentary fit of defiance… or is it?

I know. You are looking at the post below and you are wondering where trhe defiance in me came from. I don't know. You are reading the anger and you are wondering if you had read me ok before. Am I truly that benign and ...

Why should I apologise

Why should I apologise/ am i I not a soul like you?/ do I not like you cough in the midst of the dust thrown up by passing trucks and do my tears not stream from my blood shot eyes every time the carbon infested ...

Welcome to the blogosphere, Njeri

My lawyer, Njeri Mucheru Oyatta, recently started blogging - this month, as it happens and she has written some riveting mind boggling chapters that make you think. Its a refreshing well thought out read... Welcome Njeri. PS. She isn't just a great writer, she's a pretty ...

Why Kibaki has won the elections already

President Mwai Kibaki this Sunday officially announced his candidature in the upcoming general elections in characteristic style – matter of fact, simple announcement that he is running and that he is running in the new consensus based vehicle, Party of National Unity. The announcement was to ...

Come on, lets dance… oh, lets.

I wrote this 5 years ago today. So, I am posting it on my front page for a few minutes, to celebrate that I have been alive these 5 years. Al My friend, anonymous new person out there. Do not be afraid of coming over and ...