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Book Duka – The African Bookstore
I like books. I like some more than others. I like the feeling you get when you’re excited to turn the page but still have to finish reading the current one. I like reading and being smart. 2019 was supposed to be a chilled year for me where I don’t get a demanding job for the first few months. Where I just take a break and breath. I’m terrible at taking breaks. I’m just as bad at procrastinating as I am at taking breaks. When I wrote the Scramble and Partition for Africa article I needed to do a lot of fact checking. Part of me feels like even…
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Chronicles of Mafia
The quiet little corner in the coffee house was a safe haven for me on the days I needed to stop, breathe and recollect. The smell of freshly brewed coffee, the distant clatter of dishes and the soft hum of music from the speakers was always enough to set a calming mood for me even on my worst of days. Today, however, not even the usual ambiance could calm my jittery nerves. Across me sat Ayana staring me down as I tried my best to avoid eye contact. The topic of discussion? My apparent mistreatment of her friend, Kimberly. Kieran, sat on my right being a buffer of some sorts.…
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The Memorial Peace Museum
We all have that sense that this is our home and whatever happens it will always be our home. That really is what leave us unbowed.
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How to use Goodreads and a review of Eat, Pray, Love.
Happy New Year! We’re five days in. It’s the time of the year when our resolutions are still on track, we haven’t eaten fries yet, we don’t have a craving for a cold soda and we feel refreshed going for a morning run. I’m here to help you achieve the next resolution on your list. You’ve probably seen your friends boost about how they only read 21 out of 54 books and they feel distraught at how ‘lazy’ they were at reading. You’ve already signed up to Goodreads but have no idea how it works; but this year you’ve decided you will know how it works. Coming this far into…
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The holidays
It’s the time of the year just after Christmas and before New Years. I bet you don’t know if its Tuesday or Friday because this is when we have already celebrated the holiday with our family members and cooked and eaten every meal that we wouldn’t eat on a normal day and we are just about to leave the old year behind. I think this is when we all really have no judgements. Party too much? It’s the holidays…. Don’t go home? It’s the holidays… Don’t know what time of day it is and catch a drink at 9:30am? It’s the holidays… It’s like we have unfettered access to do…
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It’s time we talk about feminism.
Feminism is a concept that is bigger than the simplicity of the word itself. It existed centuries before us and continues to grow by the years. The truth however is that not many stand behind it, better yet many don’t understand it and it has been reduced to what has been passed down from the media, oral traditions and even for the more vigilant from reading on the history of it. Today I’ll answer some frequently asked questions on feminism and share what your feedback was on social media to the questions I asked. What is feminism? Aunty google says, ‘feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds…
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Perfect Stranger
When I started writing it was mostly poetry; the tragedy of love I dare say and the loneliness unrequited love brings. It was writing from a point of brokenness (aren’t we all) my, salvation for the girl behind the blinking cursor. Not for the audience. Maybe not for the 12 people who read my work, but for my freedom. For understanding of emotions in a teenagers brain. Later on I started getting an audience and I needed to not ‘seem hurt’ in all my posts. That’s what my readers said. It was bad for business or in this case for a start up blog. I needed to get more content.…
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East Meets West KE
I was in a jav last week and as the tout reached out for my fare his arm read, ‘I have nothing to loose’. Well heck, you really have nothing to lose if the term isn’t spelled right for one. He may never really know it’s spelled all wrong, I’m sure neither did the tattoo guy. It’s just a cool tattoo that probably gets him the girls, plus his messy locks. Locks seem to have a beard effect these days. Then I met Bobby. I’d go on to describe him but it wasn’t a one on one interview, more of a teleconference, only using whatsapp audios. He’s nothing like the…
