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 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 [...]
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 [...]
DESTINY.
By Clifford Oluoch
6 am. Monday morning. November 16th .
14 passengers. Route 35/60 Komarock. Kayole.
At 42 years of age, Otieno Kich had been employed with the Kenya Railways Corporation since he left school 22 years back – the last 12 years as a train driver. He had risen through the ranks and was [...]
In The Name Of The Father.
By Clifford Oluoch
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER: “All those who resolve to live up to their Christian principles will meet with opposition and persecution. But our life on earth is only ‘a little while’ and our ‘grief will be changed to joy’.”
Fr. Joseph snapped the fully packed black suitcase. [...]
