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The second edition of the Quarterly Colour Series that is compiled and published by Al Kags is out. This one is bigger featuring more poets. Blue Smudges is all about easy feelings and light expressions – nice easy thoughts.
The ebook is free and the rules are simple: read, enjoy, share, republish – whatever you [...]
A great man died on Monday 9th October 2002. He had devoted his adult life solving big problems facing Africa. His life was spent find solutions to poverty and peace among different. I didn’t see him often through out my life but every time I saw him, he had been coming from some distressed part [...]
Baada ya kutumia baadhi ya masaa ya asubuhi yangu katika eneo la kupumzikia la Uhuru, yaani Uhuru park, imenijia akilini kwamba maneno ya wakongwe wa kale wa Kiswahili waliosema, “tembea uone mengi”, yalikuwa ni ya ukweli mtupu.
Hii leo niliamua kwamba kwa vile niko na wakati, ningeweza kutembea kutoka nyumbani kwangu hadi Mjini Nairobi nikizuru mji [...]
I saw this message on Mashada – http://www.mashada.com/forums/index/show_topic/22/110559/index.php – and I thought about it for long before I could respond. What do you think? Nini hii?
When Rodgers Rop turned to Christopher Cheboich, Francis Kiprop and Mbarak Hussein, to hurry up and catch up and take the memorable photo finish at the 2002 Boston marathon, winning more than 20 seconds ahead of the rest, every Kenyan, who watched it, including myself, felt like a winner.
In the pub where I was watching [...]
bear your soul
”my dear friend,
bear your soul
bleed the blood
root of your pain
you have nothing but to gain
a heart
that is whole..”
So read the verse,
And so I did.
For the first time in my entire life,
I got up strolled to the great wall that surrounds my psyche
and unlocked the chains that bind the gates
together.
I switched off the [...]