Stories - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

March 10, 2023

Podcasts: The boy who tried to kill Queen Elizabeth II and other stories

Did I ever tell you that I have a podcast? One of my passions is to speak to our grandparents, who were young people in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I wrote some of the stories that were read to me and these were narrated ...

August 11, 2021

A teenager’s pregnancy changed the destinies of two people forever.

Here's the story of how Benjamin Katana dropped out of school to become a breadwinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9w9dPUlPk Benjamin tells the story of how he became a breadwinner When I started telling you the stories of Kenyans who don't exist despite the fact that you see them every day as ...

July 28, 2020

Knowing my father – my Engage Talk

https://youtu.be/4H1CQWqMHMM Also see: I accept. Farewell, Sensei. This is the story of me and my biological father as told at Engage 30.

June 14, 2020

Living Memories: I married a paramount chief when I was a teenager.

I am passionate about learning from the past and I have spent years talking to people who were alive in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I just wanted to know how ordinary people lived in those extraordinary times. I wrote a book called Living Memories ...

September 18, 2018

STORY: The Man who walked with the cat at 3am.

It's 3 in the morning and he is outside, walking. The street lamps on the quiet street do nothing to illuminate the darkness engulfing his mind, his heart, his soul. He is finally broken. He wishes now that he was brave enough to end it somehow. Keep ...

September 9, 2018

Why I want to be a better writer.

I was born to be a writer. To see the world in pure silence, to feel its rhythms and its impulses and to figure out how to express that on paper. On most days, when I am being successful as a writer, I stand in ...

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