Pgaitho.blogspot.com, Peter Gaitho
Published Dec. 20, 2010

I cannot do so many things like my younger brother. I do not know how he does it, like tying shoes. For me, it looks so difficult. Every time I promise myself I will do the first knot, but when I bend to start, I see the [...]

Pgaitho.blogspot.com, Peter Gaitho
Published Dec. 17, 2010

Today I had time to think. I looked all over the shopping mall. Everyone seemed excited by the displays on the windows. The products looked enticing. I wanted to buy the little dalmatian toy, but my mother said I could not have it. She said I am [...]

By CLIFFORD OLUOCH
Published Dec. 16, 2010

After another week at the hospital with Jioni, Dr. Kio finally remembered where she had met the young patient. It was three years back that they had met at the same hospital, Jioni a case of excess bleeding and infection resulting from female circumcision. The doctor had been incensed [...]

Jioni…..
As she had promised herself, Dr. Kio made frantic efforts to trace Jioni. From the little that she had gathered from the students, she set out to go and look for the girl who had just disappeared from school. Jioni needed help and Dr.Kio was going to give it to her. There [...]

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 [...]