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Remembering Eddy
Eddy passed on two days before the Christmas of 2020. It was just before dawn, according to police reports. He was found lying lifeless by a stranger somewhere in the deep of Kisumu’s Milimani Estate. He was my cousin and friend. He lived with us i…
Business Model Resilience: everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Mike Tyson said. The Covid-19 coronavirus has delivered a swift uppercut from the blindside that has us all reeling back from business as usual,…
A TETE A TETE WITH MR.DEATH
On a day like this 6 years ago, I received the news that my mum was no more. I drove home crazily at midnight, hoping that I would save her life. She couldn’t be gone-she hadn’t reached that die-able age when hands get gnarled and the brain gets…
5 Kenyan Holiday Destinations in Turkana and Rift Valley
Much local holiday travel in Kenya involves going to the Coast. If not the Coast, most holidayers end up in Nanyuki or Naivasha. But what if you wanted to go somewhere else, what are the alternatives? An interesting itinerary would be Lake Turkana,…
My News and Views Roundup (2020-)
A curation of interviews, talks, op-eds by/featuring yours truly. Also, additional roundups on COVID-19 and for 2014-2019). 2021 Digital biases: The chimaera of equality and access (An essay I contributed for Raisina Files 2021, unpacking the layered…
Poem: Arrested Tongues
A year agomy tongue got arrested roaming the streets at night on Silent Avenue her charge,possession with intent to distribute on herwas an ounce of wordswhich when inhaledcauses loss of all inhibitionshallucinations of hal…
Usiku Games targets 8 million primary pupils with mobile edutainment games to improve math, sciences, and languages
Usiku Games, a Kenyan mobile games company, has unveiled edutainment games to help primary school-aged children improve on their learning skills especially in Math and English languages. The mobile web-based platform dubbed “Tizi Games” are desig…
Language| A Bridge or A Hurdle?
A TELE-COUNSELING SESSION WITH A CLIENT. IT’S THE FIRST SESSION AND THE CLIENT CHOSE TO DO IT ON PHONE RATHER THAN ON ZOOM. And what brings you here today? Well, I am concerned about my job. It’s a real warzone. What about your job are you concer…
Met up with my ex
We were going to meet at a cafe around 5. I actually got there before he did but sat around at the station for a few minutes because I was early. Then I texted him a few minutes before 5 to say I was almost there and he said that he was there already…
2020
(This post is coming a couple of months late, because, well, I’ve been wondering lately exactly what role this blog plays in my life after all these years. But a good friend texted and prodded me about it and he said something like, sometimes an ar…
That Isn’t The Actual Twist
So now, the two pregnancies were in a competition. You know like in an athletics competition, just around the last lap how things are tight…I knew you’d get it. So one pregnancy was earlier than the other but somehow, one got wind of the other an…