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Biko Adema. The baby-faced assassin who always looked innocuous until it was time to convert a try. Rarely missed a kick between the two sticks. …

Something shifted in the air when I turned 25. It was no different to walking back home and finding the seating arrangement tweaked. The three …

When the fat lady sings, getting back on the treadmill is an act of great defiance. Two harvests have passed since I set foot on …

Church was packed today. The surge in numbers was so clear there were backbenchers. You could see them bobbing their noses peering to snatch a …

It could be your hands shake and tremble like those of someone tightly wringing out soggy clothes. It could be your eyes beam at midnight …

From time to time I sit in a discipline committee tasked with setting deviant students straight. It’s a serious duty from the administration’s point of …

They say the true measure of a man isn’t what he reveals to the world but what he keeps from it. Secrets are heavy things …

We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. When I was in standard 5 many eons ago, in …

Life has truly come full circle. I have a big bus and I intend to throw most of my students under it today.On my desk, …

Today I had hopeIn bated breath, I prayedMaking the devil brayAnd much to his dismayThe heavens carried the day Today I had hopeWhatever hardship beI …

We do not talk money, salaries or promotions at work. Provision is of the Lord. Any success is attributed to ‘kujaribu tu’. Let’s face it, …

We sat huddled in this bus like a herd of cattle. Thirty three strangers, whose lives take different courses everyday but on this day somehow …

We will remember these days when we were easy pickings for ridicule because we were starting out. These amateur days when we had no backing, …

The last semester of University feels exactly like the belly of phalaris’ bull. Its plain hell and gruesome. The lecture hall has become a place …

Mental health is a slippery slope. It calls for balance and the healthiest of minds are those that barely teeter. Mental health is a continuum …

Most of the things we want to change in our lives require that we change ourselves first. The exorcist must rid himself of the things …

It’s 7am and my gaze is starkly cast on a computer screen. I’m in a green walled office, carpeted blue. Next to me is an …

(Trigger Warning: This blogpost contains information pertaining to rape/sexual assault) How do you think you’ll die? If someone gave you 10 seconds to guess, how …

The year is 1983, an enchanting melody seeps through African airwaves. Listeners lean in towards their stereos to turn up the volume because playing on …

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