By CLIFFORD OLUOCH
Published Aug. 17, 2010
Monday morning saw the children of 7P arrive at the school some with their parents others with their guardians. They wanted to make sure that Jioni was not in school, and if she was, they were going to take matters into their hands and kick her out of school [...]
Jioni...
Friday afternoon belonged to the headteacher. It was after lunch that some of the students, like Jioni, who did not go home for lunch, noticed a mob of angry looking adults move towards the school.
Jioni strained her eyes to have a closer look at the gathering mob, something she had never seen in a [...]
BY PHILIP KENNEDY
Published June 10, 2010
President Zuma is not the first man to loose his ‘bed’ to another man.
Who doesnt know a neighbour whose wife has begotten a child or two with another man? Which grown up–man or woman–has not seen men bringing up children they know in their hearts of hearts that they [...]
BY CLIFFORD OLUOCH
Published May 10, 2010
“Muuuum!”
The scream from Pope, my 5-year-old son jolted me. Fear etched at the end of his squeaky voice and I knew that he was not injured. Nor was he in pain.
“Coming,” I shouted as I quickly put on my robe, slipped into my green antique slippers that Dad had [...]
Her soft lips – the lips which have been shaping some words and eliciting some captivating sounds into my ears – are really driving me crazy. I really need to taste them – tonight. At the back of my mind, I momentarily play the scenes from a romantic movie “Ghost” acted by Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, and promise myself that if she decides to test her smile against mine, her kiss against my tenderness, and her warmth against my patience, then this night, tonight, this time, I will transform myself into Patrick Swayze and she will be my Demi Moore.
Destiny (3)
By Clifford Oluoch.
After almost six years on the same Jogoo Road route, Macharia knew how treacherous that highway could be. Already there was a queue of cars that had stopped at the cross over where the railway crossed Jogoo Road, thus separating the west from the east. If Macharia did not make [...]
FGM – The Aftermath (4)
**Who is Jioni?**
Meanwhile Jioni walked away from the scene of the accident and made it slowly to the Ngoma hills, some kilometres from the school.
Painfully she climbed to the top of the mountain, each step reminding her of the painful past. She needed to be alone and revisit the cause [...]
SPLIT THE EYE (4)
By Clifford Oluoch
It was the Harvest Season, a time when all the gardens are deep, penetratingly green, full of life and beckoning any farmer to come and enjoy the fruits of the earth.
Mayira, the Chief’s eldest daughter, was in charge of organising the girls’ dance troupe. The fifteen young unmarried girls [...]
In The Name Of The Father (2)
By Clifford Oluoch.
“Is there a problem with him?” Sr. Mary asked Esther the moment John Paul had left the room. Sr. Mary knew the youngsters love for each other. These two were kids who had grown up in Church, graduating from the Sunday School programme to the [...]
Destiny
By Clifford Oluoch
“I am a musician,” Serah replied proudly and then went into the long story of the challenges of producing her debut album. She removed a CD from her bag and gave it to the driver to sample it. Macharia removed the DVD that was playing and inserted Serah’s CD. The thumping [...]
