It is election day today and voters up and down the country have joined in large numbers to queue patiently and await their opportunity to exercise their democratic right under the New Constitution of 2010. We are told that the presidential poll is too close as the age old Kenyatta – Odinga rivalry enters the [...]
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Poor parenting and bad luck
There is a new notice on this keyboard that I am using that says : Warning – official business only. I am working late in the office tonight – only the second time in the 12 years that I have worked here – because I spent most of the day at Kaloleni police station. I [...]
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We arrived just as they were leaving. They were in a small group of about twenty standing there by the edge of the lake. The ladies wore black and the men were in dark suits. Most of the group wore dark glasses. They walked back to where they had parked their cars and then very [...]
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Just the other day I was going through some previous posts i’m told most bloggers have gone away on holiday and came across this gem When the charming author of this blog published it she may not have realised that she was opening a tiny window into her own reading preferences and by extension the [...]
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My friend was gone for about a quarter of an hour and now he returned with a new bottle and a jug of ice-water on a huge tray. My generous host had even warmed up a large piece of spicy mutura which he now cut up and set on a plate before me. “ I [...]
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Woolie believes that we are living in a modern civilised society. He also subscribes to the general idea that in any civilised society it is the duty of all individuals to defend and protect the rights of the more ‘vulnerable’ members of that society. Further it is said that we can judge a people by [...]
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There are few things that are more painful to the victims and the perpetrators than the incidents of domestic violence. This sad and shameful condition is present in every world society and in every walk of life. No community, no social class, no ethnicity and no country in the world is spared. The victims can [...]
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