Issue: CHRISTMAS MADE IN NYANZA

It’s a lazy Saturday morning. Two bicycle mechanics are sitting on a bench outside their ramshackle shed, half bored, half nostalgic. They’re waiting for customers, but none comes. Instead, they watch their youth stroll past, whistling, without even saying hi. One of

The end-of-year holidays are here and Nairobi cannot understand the fervor that is seizing Machakos country bus as our people rush to return to the great waters, intoxicated by memories past Christmases made in Nyanza and the smell of kith and kin.

We were following the funeral ceremony of the late Baba (Raila Odinga) on Citizen TV with a few friends and were intrigued by certain aspects of Luo culture that were on display at the colourful ceremony. For a wealthy family that resided

Now that he was home for Christmas our boy was flossing, living like a king. Whenever him and his fellow con, Bongisa, popped into the village pub, Kimberly, the barmaids abandoned the tired village teachers and tea farmers who nursed a beer