My in-laws still talk about how I brought eight healthy cows to the ruracio. Four of them belonged to my uncle in Narok, and he collected them the following week. Two years later my father-in-law keeps asking how…
Salary lands on the 28th. By the 29th, Fuliza, the shylock and the chama contribution have taken everything. I've told my wife three months in a row that the company delayed salaries. They didn't. I'm just drowning quietly…
When I finished campus I couldn't find work, so I started selling mtumba at Gikomba. Business is actually good now and I make more than some of my friends in offices. But at home I'm still "the banker."…
Everyone in our plot in Roysambu thinks it was the old mama on the ground floor who complained to the caretaker. It was me. The guy in B4 plays mugithi at full volume until 3am every Friday, and…
I live in Syokimau. Monday, I woke up at the Kitengela terminus. Thursday, same thing, same matatu, same conductor. He now wakes me up at my stage without me asking. Best customer service in Nairobi.
Every Sunday I post a church selfie at 9am and my mum sends me blessings. I leave after the first song and go for brunch with the same three friends. The pastor knows my face but has never…
Comrade life was hard. When my fees didn't come through, I moved into my friend's room "for a week." A week became eight months. The warden thought we were twins. He now works in Kisumu and still refuses…