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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 [...]
A couple of days ago, I was able to experience in one evening, the disparity of people’s lives. I was able to mingle with the upper middle class on the one hand and interact with the destitute within the space of two hours. It has had me thinking for the last two days how abstractly [...]
Saturday September 30, 2006 2:26 am.
Singers from over 70 churches in Kenya are presiding over a concert that is attended by well over 6000 christians from Nairobi, and several from South Africa, Z
imbabwe, Nigeria, and other African countries. The pastors present are young and hip and the atmosphere is electrified with dancing.
It is a [...]
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I read Sunny Bindra’s column this Sunday in the Sunday Nation and I was hit by the – I suppose – requisite repentance and I could totally feel what he was saying. Piracy was bad. It was robbing these artists of their livelihoods because I would buy cheaper [...]
Chinja Maitiro – Change the way things are in ZIMBABWE.
I would love to be able to record my activities and experiences as I go along life as well as Andrew Meldrum recorded his life, experiences and eventual expulsion from Zimbabwe in his book, where we have hope. The book simply resonated with me so [...]
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 [...]
Its 5:16am on Tuesday 5th September 2006 and I look at the clock and realise that the night has just whizzed by. I have been sitting here since 9pm last night holding a pack of valium and feeling depressed. I have decided to write this, I don’t know why.
I have actually been weighing the option [...]
The argument of compensation is a misguided farce
August 28, 2006 By Al Kags
As I do every Sunday, I read Prof. Ali Mazrui’s column in the Sunday Standard but having read this Sunday’s edition, I realise that he has brought to the fore my consternation with Africa on the basis of it progression from a [...]
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