NOT MY RAGE. by Toni Duruaku.
In looming streets I surge
A thunderous roar I bear
It’s not my way to be the guest
But so compelled by quakes and slides
So, not for me to turn the blame
As fire under sears my feet;
Not for me to turn the blame
For oft my feet are made to sear.
I’m all but worry [...]
A homeless man sleeps by the roadside in Nairobi, Kenya.
” Man is born, grows up, evolves and fulfills his potential only within a social body that enriches him and that he is supposed to enrich. Outside this concept, outside this logic, there is no man…” Seydou Badian
The urban poor in Nairobi are a sight that [...]
Two cyclists navigate a worn out and heavily damaged Eldoret-Kitale Highway.
“Ghandi’s seven sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humility
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
Who sinned to deprive a generation of youth the hope of work?
Who sinned to abase his knowledge to the character a scavenger?
Who sinned to steal from the poor to give to the [...]
A dust cloud settles over the landscape near Molo in Kenya.
Traffic moves slowly along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway in Kenya. A light motorcycle (bodaboda) overtakes traffic using the median.
This week, I lost a great friend. Captain Edward (Smallie) Maina Gatimu was a great guy who brought a lot of warm in my heart and many others. We went to high school together and I have a lot of wonderful memories of growing up to become men. Maina was one of the founding members [...]
A traffic jam in the Eastlands section of Nairobi, Kenya.
Man pulling a ‘mkokoteni’ (hand cart) in Nairobi’s industrial area.
Last will and testament
By Ariel Dorfman
When they tell you
I’m not a prisoner
don’t believe them.
They’ll have to [...]
A man works at a Jua Kali workshop in the sweltering Nairobi sun.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity.
For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops.
The same is true of the laugh.
Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.
Let us not speak well of it either.
Let us not speak of it at [...]
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