Split The Eye
By Clifford Oluoch
The anger and agitation in Kolo was clearly rising. She felt that she had the attention of the women, and that she had started something that had to be completed. The sound of the flowing river offered inspiration to Kolo. The waters, meandering round objects and hurdles, always found its [...]
FGM – the aftermath (2).
By Clifford Oluoch
Menjo did not come to school the following day and that sent shivers down the spine of each class member. Menjo had never missed school since std.1, he had never fallen sick.
Word went round the class in the morning about Menjo’s absence and the encounter with Jioni the [...]
THE LOST FEATHER.
By Clifford Oluoch
The flame-red feather twirled against the raging winds, a unique and conspicuous colour dancing wildly and erratically to the furious and uncontrolled raging winds of change.
“Auuuuuuuuuuuuui!” a scream shattered the stillness and tranquillity of the starry African night. From their wooden coops, hens stirred, cows twitched from their round fenced [...]
FGM – the aftermath (1).
By Clifford Oluoch
There was a familiar creak from the old rusty door, which allowed a draught of the cold July wind to slowly waft into the class and send shivers down the class.
Instinctively all the 42 heads in the class rose and shifted their gaze towards the end of the class [...]
This time of year takes me two years back in 2007 when post-election violence broke out in Kenya. Human beings stopped thinking and allowed themselves to be brainwashed by politicians. We thought we were fighting for change, and for what we believed in while in essence, we were fighting for the interests of a few [...]
By Mercy Ojwang’
I have always been of the mindset that all human beings are inherently good. Yes, the tenets of the idealists do hold firm with me, even if only in a utopian world. In Utopia, people love one another for who they are, flaws and all. In Utopia, friendships are made easily, and enmity [...]
By Clifford Oluoch.
The two girls met outside Julie’s compound, the stone fenced Flat B of the recently renovated New Ngara Flats. They were almost the same height; same built, and looked the same age of 11. Julie, the neater and more presentable of the two was riding her old rickety bike and had [...]
Beauty Is The Best.
By Clifford Oluoch.
The stage lights blinded Frankie but she did not squint nor for any moment unnecessarily shut her eyes. “Focus on one spot and move your eyes around,” she remembered the etiquette coach telling them just before they hit the cat walk.
There were six girls who had made it to [...]
By CLIFFORD OLUOCH
It was while waiting for his car to be washed that Dr. Kioko called.
“Give me ten minutes and I will be there?” Felix told the doctor who wanted Felix to be there when the news was being broken.
Felix decided to walk to the Doctor’s plaza. He gave the car wash man shs.500 and [...]
Linda does not see surrogacy as “handing over” the baby, but as “handing back” the baby. “Because, the baby is not yours from the beginning,” she asserts.
