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Bloody Kente
Bloody Kente is bloody black solid and strong and old rivers sometimes lead home and sometimes far far away a spring feeding the earth birthing bloody green like bloody kente. mother, my Kente is bloody blue like the evening sun sky with streaks of dark and bloody orange on my bloody kente. the middle of the day […]
I know my shapes
I haven’t had time to write these past few weeks so I thought I’d string together a few thoughts about a few things and just let them sit here filling the space I would have instead. I’m thinking about five things because that is a good number, and since I am forcing words to sit […]
11 reasons to say no to a King.
It is no secret that I have no warm feelings for monarchy. The last few days have, however, convinced me that it is more important than ever to make a cogent case for why this is so. There’s the obvious reasons, being Kenyan: we have a history packed with exploitation at the hands of British […]
Furaha
Nimecheka leo nzima nikiskiza Iyanii akirausha hisi hizi za Nairobi. Akasema: I am happy today, so happy I am happy today, so happy Ju sisi ni walevi sisi ni walevi Tunapenda kamnyweso, tunapenda kamnyweso Sisi ni walevi, sisi ni walevi Tunapenda kamnyweso, tunapenda kamnyweso Furaha-IYANII We wasemaje kicheko hiki? Kweli labda furaha ni ya walevi […]
Work or Live?
Kabooch! Kabooch! Kabooch! Up on the 12th floor, the printer that was responsible for the cacophony in Kabber’s ears let out another page. The pages came with two columns of text, each running jaggedly down the length of one of the sides. Kabber would take the pages, scan them into a computer document, and spend […]