Stranded In Utopia

.   These words below, are what I wrote after Ihad been informed that the person who I was to stay with , as I visited in Nairobi couldn’t host me. Already at the border, with very little money in my pockets, I was going to a strange place with nowhere to stay. Couldn’t help…

Dear Cold Thighed Nairobi

    Nairobi blues. When biting coldness doesn’t bite Tuesday night, the 16th of September found us on the road to Nairobi for a writers’ festival called Story Moja festival. By Wednesday morning, we were forging our way through the busy, mind boggling, Swahili packed city center. I guess where the bus stopped us must…

Life Oh Life, Wisdom In Simplicity

The first time I heard this phase, I was taken a little bit by surprise. It was at a local church deep down in Ntungamo district and I was amazed at the intelligence in it. “If the Crested crane knew its worth, it would collect money for every one that looked at it!” I must…

+254 Here We come

Life can be spontaneous. At around this time last year, I was bored in Bushenyi and one day, I planned to do something spontaneous just for a change. I had met a certain lady friend of mine who works with Wangari Mathai foundation in Kenya, and had promised to visit her. So I said, Why…

Desert Island

  Wednesday in Bushenyi was a day like no other. After probably running after the so called colleague I had, probably him leaving me once in a while, passing through reeds , roads on the side of a mountain in Ntungamo, the hot spring in Kitagata and rolling stones in Ijumo Rukungiri, we would finally…