The weekend saw the unveiling of the ODM presidential campaigns, this followed the earlier one by the incumbent. I have pondered over this whole campaign launch ruckus. Do the millions of chaps who fill up this grounds vote? Is this really a true gauge of the popularity or lack of, of a candidate? Some guys say that these are just idle youth out to spend a day doing at least something hyper rather than spend it lounging at shopping centres doing what they do best, nothing.To me this is on... Read Full Story

It is a bright Saturday today; there are no hints of rainfall like a normal Sato. This sides every thing seems to polite and cool.Office is the same new stuff everyday, which I can say is the only normal thing here.My programming project is slowly coming through save for the fact that the Open Source society in Kenya seems virtually dead. It is either that or my blog aint read by that many people so I try one more time; FELLOWS ANY ONE WITH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OUT THERE HOOK ME UP!!!!That s... Read Full Story

As people rush through the traffic,That life has become,I have become motionless,Unable to go through the motionsOf daily endeavours,Just being able to get through The next minute and the one after that,Tomorrow is a dream,A bad one,That promises to be painfulIn the emptiness that it carries,That dreadful vacuity,Which engulfs like a massive towel,Wringing life out of a soul,Leaving it dripping with nothing.Not even a pulse twitching,To at least confirm that,A heart beats,And a soul lives. Read Full Story

The debate about what makes of qualifies one as an African writer has been ongoing for a long time.   Suffice it to say that the debate is not about to end any time soon.  Ken Opande's article (SS 2 Sept. 2007) made for interesting reading. From the outset I think this whole debate is pertinent as it tries to shed light on what exactly make one an African writer.   Or is there a one-size-its-all description of an African writer. My opinion is that there isn't.   E... Read Full Story

I have always connoted the word 'cynic' with something diabolical. But I have now realised the need for us to have some cynics if we are to survive in this cold and cruel world.   What has made me turn my thoughts to the cynic is the fact that it is becoming very clear that all human being have an inherent sense of putting one's self first.   Some will say that this is a good thing, the stuff that drives ambitions, but what do you say about the chap who snookers his ma... Read Full Story

I have wrote nothing in a while and thought this would best summarise my brain.  I currently am thinking up what to write but my brain seems to be on a very lazy plane.  That said Kenya politics has never been this entertaining what with politician from all sides of the divide try to upstage each other.  Not by a visceral contest but by how much profanity and abuse can come out of your mouth than the other guy.   If anyone thinks that they is any difference beetween the opposition and the ru... Read Full Story

 I got a weird title today coz I've many thoughts swirling in my head.  From finances to heart matters if I may call them that.  I am go back to Kenya tomorrow coz of the semester ending and all and I hope to take like a polite drink when I reach there so as to kind of put my head blank.  Being in Kenya will come with the attendant benefits of having a reliable internet connection as compared to this backwaters.  But one think I will definitely miss will be the waragi.  A drink that sooth... Read Full Story

Hello people its been while since I got on the net, my last post waslike a month ago. I have been alright all this while but goingthrough my comments I find that nobody has commented on my lastquestion about poetry I dont know if there are very few people who areinto the verse but surely there must be someone out there withthoughts on the matter. Or maybe its that my blog aint read by asmany poeple as I thought but its fine. There was an article in one of the Kenyan papers about the blogst... Read Full Story

  Poetry is release, one of my pals said, with all the conviction he had.  Bull man! Methinks that poetry is life.  We live in verse, our lives punctuated by rhyme, syllables and all.   Usually this debate about poetry compared to prose or about the need of poetry is kinda cliched.  Guys who put forward arguments to support it will most certainly sound like they are using the same old same old points but that coz they believe in it.    The one thing I would like to ask all the poets out the... Read Full Story

Christmas here, is very disconcerting.  The same old song which we heard as kids are the same one still assailing our ears.  Its not that I hate the X-mas period its just that everyone seems to go into a whole celebratory mood (me included) which doesn't look justified at all.   I think it must be something with the ending of the year.  But who knows for sure that the new one won't bring more problems than the one almost winding up.  Fear of the unknown is some trait that people aban... Read Full Story