For the next couple of days I will diligently disregard any decent advice my  editors, journalism teachers and mentors have dealt me. I will inject my jaded voice into news and give you a highly adulterated year in review. In so many words, most of the events here may or may not  have happened. If the babble does not make sense imagine me, ...Read More »

The Saidia Jamii program in Kenya is like an incomplete thought. It represents a vague policy to be enacted through a problematic process towards an even more ambiguous end.  To top it off, we end up some sh. 600 big ones in the hole in an economy on  bandages and clutches . There is an undeniable need for government intervention as urban food ...Read More »

Father  Ambrose Muli, During your homily you blamed me, the Kenyan woman,  for Ngengi and Chege pursuing the desires of their hearts.  In your words: "Women, from the way I see it, have become too complicated and unattractive in marriage. You don't provide what God intended you to give in marriage. You have frustrated the men so much leading them to trying ...Read More »

Nephew # 3, Exactly one week ago today you made a grand entrance. I could accuse you of twiddling your thumbs on the way over but I'm not even sure you know what thumbs are, much less how to twiddle the dang things. Anyhow you have a long life ahead of you. I suppose it will be full of apologies, ngotos and swift kicks in ...Read More »

An acquaintance once asked the one word Kenyan journalists are extremely fond of throwing around. The almost unanimous answer was 'defiled' closely followed by 'had carnal knowledge' of someone or an animal. I'm still trying to understand the words 'forcefully raped' and 'indecently assaulted' also found in the Kenyan journalist's lexicon. As if one can be agreeably raped or decently assaulted. You ...Read More »