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Writing my Gikuyu Nation 14 May 2010 | 02:20 am
I was socialised Gikuyu. Growing up in the Kiambu of the eighties, all I ever wanted to be was a blinged out Gikuyu. I wanted the Datsun twero, the ‘Godfather’ hat, the cowboy boots. And when I hea...
POLITICAL WRITING IN MY KENYA 10 May 2010 | 04:00 am
I do not write. I protest.
Chips Isiyo Funga 6 May 2010 | 04:02 am
For Bruno Schultz my private Pole: a lesson in translation; anticipating progress in your work. *** Well it is bye to strangers who might come back our way as admirers in the made up ‘bravura’ of ou...
Writing My Nairobi 28 Apr 2010 | 02:16 am
I learnt to tell stories in a world where there was no theory. I knew no Feminism; I was just a boy telling the stories of the life and the living in the idiom of my world. I knew no historical materi...
Uptown Reggae- Downtown Feminism 21 Apr 2010 | 12:04 am
I am surrounded by breasts. I like this part of Rezorous- The kitchen grill- to your right. It is like kuku porno with feathers on- Three star chips funga. And the reggae? “Every, every night…” ...
Colonial Penetration Lowers the Risk of Clitorial Mutilation 2 Apr 2010 | 01:37 am
A couple of Martinis later and its time for sundowners. A Date With The African Sunset. Ms. Femme now knows the clitoris to adult ratio in Sub-Saharan Africa. How African women are living with less an...
Colonial Penetration Lowers the Risk of Clitoral Mutilation 2 Apr 2010 | 01:37 am
A couple of Martinis later and its time for sundowners. A Date With The African Sunset. Ms. Femme now knows the clitoris to adult ratio in Sub-Saharan Africa. How African women are living with less an...
Kenyan Tales from a Digital Age? 31 Mar 2010 | 04:44 am
The avatar kicks at us, trips on his customised @Mash Auto car key but collects himself into an eye roll emoticon flushed back into the linearity and predictability of the Kenyan internet night by the...
WRITING MY KENYA* 30 Mar 2010 | 03:38 am
"At home, I was socialised Gikuyu. Not the Gikuyu of We the Gikuyu- that doesn’t exist, anymore, outside of national politics- but Gikuyu according to my family. It was a Gikuyuness, like for most, nu...
Wanaume Hufanya 25 Mar 2010 | 01:02 am
“After my weekly psychiatric self examination,” I am saying to N.M., “I like to take the time it takes to smoke a gaff to contemplate the meaning of life.” This seems to stretch his mind like a miraa ...
