Orals East Africa At the hut of the story

The Bonus Tea party, Inyali farmers uproot tea bushes

October 15, 2024

If you were in Chavakali the place where you would get them was Embassy pub. I knew it because that is the place where my own father surprised me with a stinging slap when he caught me and some other village lads peeping through the bamboo screen in the doorway trying to find out what was going on in that

Tuju Hotel auctioned for Kes450 million

Mr Tuju and the regional bank were entangled in a web of litigation for almost half a decade,

Absa returns to Kisumu day to roll out Foundation programme

Absa Bank launched Absa Kenya Foundation (AKF), its corporate social arm with a seed funding of Sh500 million

Family Bank lifts H1 profits 14 pc on state securities leverage

As a Group, our focus in the first half of

Absa posts 28pc profits on out-running costs

Absa Bank Kenya has reported an impressive 28.9 percent jump

Tuju Hotel auctioned for Kes450 million

Mr Tuju and the regional bank were entangled in a

DP Gachagua’s accused of killing confidence in Kenyan state in NIS attack

The detail of the investigations, bank account numbers, nature of

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Black November beckons with unbeatable deals and epic fraud

October 8, 2024

The saying ‘’Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice cant put the blame on you’’ was just a way to console myself

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The Adulting epidemic

October 1, 2024

As the educated youthful population, we are expected to deliver an economic boom when there will be two active youth for every child and

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Part 2 The village of many writers

September 25, 2024

Despite the icons that have been produced on these hills, the tallest buildings in the area are the piers of evangelical churches rather than

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Part 1: The village writers

September 24, 2024

We are still in the initial steps of setting up a virtual library of East Africa fiction, non-fiction and poetry and hopefully if the

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Part 1; On the road to Damascus, How Hallo became a photographer

September 17, 2024

Mr Hallo first saw a cameraman in 1965, it was the first photographer he had ever met, a missionary at his church. He smiles

Photography

Photography

The language of the Great Lake of East Africa

August 11, 2024

‘An Nelson Janyakach’, he greets me, typical of Luo-folk whose identities are tied to their village dhot’s that constitute an important part of greeting.

From Vinyl Addiction to R&B Brunches, Kisumu Catches the Old School Fever

October 6, 2024

The second edition of Vinyl Addiction took place on Saturday,

Party after party to end the year in Kisumu

October 4, 2024

Events like Kisumu Old School Brunch and Vinyl Addiction had

Part 2; A tall Acacia that sees East Africa’s greatest lake for its magnificence

September 18, 2024

This is not an overstatement, the hotel is in the

Events & Travel

Entertainment·Events & Travel

Party after party to end the year in Kisumu

October 4, 2024

Events like Kisumu Old School Brunch and Vinyl Addiction had such a tremendous showing on demand

Events & Travel

Kenyan government sees the great lake

September 27, 2024

There lies immense opportunity for watersports activities to thrive here, much like the marine parks in

Events & Travel

Kisumu Kakamega black spot where residents predict accidents

September 12, 2024

Structurally it slants too suddenly, off the slopes and one then has to negotiate a roundabout

Events & Travel

Part 1: The culture shock of traveling through Rwanda

August 20, 2024

President Paul Kagame united his people and he gave them a mentality, everybody is your brother,

Events & Travel

Travelling through Kisumu, beware trailers falling from the sky

June 27, 2024

Same place, same spot, same type of vehicle, only this the sugar transporting trailer lost control

Fiction & Non Fiction

Fiction & Non Fiction·Non Fiction

Rethinking the Place of Dowry in Today’s Marriages

May 10, 2024

Initially, the ‘token of appreciation’ was in the form of cattle or other livestock, and, or farm produce, however, the bahasha phenomenon has taken precedence, where a certain amount of money much more like a priced good in the market is set

Fiction

The vinyl thief

May 7, 2024

The vinyl had been replaced by the tape, the tape by the CD, by the flashdisk, memory stick, now everything's in the cloud. What chance did they have against virtual storage, but some few eccentrics and lost souls.

Fiction & Non Fiction·Non Fiction

How to tour Diani in local hands

April 9, 2024

If they would throw him in the middle of it, he could navigate his way to shore. Floating like driftwood as the current sailed back on familiar tide.

Poetry

Killing a god

April 6, 2024

They will come to you Son When the world Is at a precipice They will be desperate And you, Clueless Keep this wisdom That history grants you That when money’s power is at a zenith Tyrannical And they are unable to control

Poetry

Reincarnations

April 6, 2024

My gods Look at me Like gelded phantoms From the ruins of their tombs As I supplicate to foreign gods And they serve me well Maybe better My deities toss and turn Trying to catch my attention Managing momentary accessibility In my

Fiction·Fiction & Non Fiction

they cut off her wings right before she could fly

February 2, 2024

I could tell it was serious business by the way it was talked about in low tones. Rukiya was placed before the adults in the wide sitting room and she looked squeamish on the seats like she could fall over and disappear

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