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18 November 2015

#OdeToYouth Lesson 5: Forgive your parents and yourself

When I was in my early 20s, I was very angry person. It didn't take much to get me to fly off the handle and over-react with wild gesticulations and loud admonitions. A small slight would cause me to shout at a hapless person and ...

04 November 2015

#OdeToYouth – Lesson 3: (Guest blogger) – No success without Sacrifice.

My friend, who writes the #PassionatelyKenyan blog is also an ex-youth like me - she is my age. She is a C-level executive for a large government organisation and I can tell you for sure, she has come a looong way. Here's her unedited story. I am at ...

01 November 2015

#OdeToYouth: Lesson 2 – Learn how to sweep a floor

My last day of high school was a Thursday. My mother, one of several accomplished hoteliers and caterers in our family, had arranged that I would start apprenticeship at the Tropical African Dream Hotel in Malindi. Apprentices at the hotel were essentially being given practical ...

30 October 2015

#OdetoYouth: Lesson 1 – Learn hard, Make a brave choice

I left Malindi, where I grew up for a major part of my life on January 6th 2000. I knew that moving to the great big city - at a time that my parents had different ideas of what I should do after high school, ...

18 May 2014

Living Memories: a story from Lokitaung, Kenya

Today, I want to share with you one story. From Lokitaung. There used to be a prison there during the colonial era. After independence it has had little relevance in people's lives. A few years ago, I happened to be there, and I met an ...

11 February 2014

Of Africans in Suits and Ties

Tonight when I couldn’t sleep, I happened upon a Guinness documentary on Youtube that is worth watching. The video was about the group of men in Congo Brazzaville who are members of a little known club (at least in East Africa) called the Sapeurs or ...

15 September 2013

New VAT Law bring savings into my home!

The VAT Act became law in Kenya and was implemented in the past two weeks. With it, came an increase in a number of daily necessities that have seen major changes in my house. These commodities include Milk and Newspapers (among several others) I have not ...

06 March 2008

END OF AN ERA! WE HAVE MOVED

Al Kags no longer lives here. He has moved to his own permanent house at www.alkags.com. This blog has been set to self distruct on March 31 2008. Please sycronise your blogrolls. Progress!!!

13 February 2008

CALL OUT: QCS Poetry – Indigo Smoothies

This is a call out for entries into the sixth part of The Quarterly Colour Series of Poetry, Indigo Smoothies. The Quarterly Colour Series of poetry are a series of free ebooks, published by Al Kags every three months. The first five ebooks of the ...

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