The keyboard and I have an abusive relationship, it’s toxic and the toxicity surprisingly comes from […]
Naseeb Abdul Juma Issack popularly known as Diamond Platnumz once opined on his 2013 banger My Number 1 ... “ Kwanza Mapenzi safari, Ujana ni maji ya moto, walinenanga zamani” …. I was 24 then, and for some strange reason a hardcore Eastcoast Hiphop fan like myself was touched by that line from a genre I then considered wack.
Growing up and schooling in Butere - Sabatia was not all that fascinating, not with neighboring schools with names like Eshitsitswi, Enyenyesi, Eshinamwenyuli, Ebuchenya, Eshibanga and my very own Ebukolwe. I see folks joke on the interwebs how the name of the school was a contributing factor in performances, well not funny guys, folks in Emuyundi primary do not like that joke at all! Now in a bid to make the names a bit palatable, the prefix E would be dropped like a hot Potato.
Coco is a 2017 Pixar animation that enlightened me on matters the afterlife and life in general. It gravitates around the exploits of 12-year-old Miguel, who, despite a heavy-handed ban on music by his grandma in the family, still has the insatiable thirst to play the guitar and sing. During a night to honor the memory of the dead (dias de muertos), Miguel finds himself in the technicolor world of the dead.
The year 2020 has not been easy on anyone, given the current state of affairs as I pen this, It is not going to get any easier. So buckle up and dig into your inner creative and survival instinct. Where survival and sheer will to get by are involved, your higher diploma, degree, masters and Phd have nothing to do with it.
My mother worked as a secretary in Siaya, the pay not all that and the proverbial ends would soon refuse to meet. Caught between a baby daddy who wouldn’t chip in and her meagre wages, her only option was to drop me off to her mother. Life in Kisiwa was hard, meals not assured, school fees almost impossible to raise.
I have never caught a break with the Taxi business. What fuels me is the massive gap in my environment and the boundless opportunities that can come with it. Do not be fooled, this is no low hanging fruit...
Sometimes back in 2004, “The facebook” was nothing but a campus fad. An online platform started by Mr. Zuckerberg to help profile fellow Harvard students and faculty. This later spread like wildfire