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. [...]

This makes me laugh every time I read it. It reminds me of a dog-character on NTV in the 90’s called Rex…. It was always easy to say Sex instead of Rex!!

BY LEONNARD OJWANG

Part I: Home bound

When I booked a Lufthansa plane to Kenya via Ethiopia for the December 2009 holidays, it never occurred to me that the discount voucher I held in my hands could also have contained its own angels of luck. Or didn’t it? The 777 Boeing from Houston to Frankfurt is comfortable [...]

Of Language and Hearts.

By Joy Wanjiku Barasa

Communication experts will tell you that about 65 – 70 percent of our communication is non verbal and that in instances where there seems to be a clash between the verbal and non verbal, we should always take the non verbal to be the unsaid truth. So for instance, [...]

Split The Eye (3)

By Clifford Oluoch.

The women came back from the river much happier than when they had left in the morning. The singing had resumed, the vocals blending harmoniously with the chirping of the early birds. They went about their normal chores as if nothing had happened. They milked the cows [...]