Last year on New Years’ Eve Kai decided to go for a meet and greet, you know send off the year in the usual Kenyan style, with fireworks and noise and most of all, a countdown. He walked up to the bar and smiled at the barista, “Malaysian please.” “Not drinking today?” He asked … [Read more...] about Little Things
Adventures
High Grade
It’s a new season, new life, we went into the men manufacturing factory; highschool. I vividly remember the twentieth day of January 2011. I woke up with a migraine, was throwing up like a newly pregnant woman. I hated this new life. I had already changed schools three times in … [Read more...] about High Grade
An Indian on the streets of Nairobi
As I walked down the alley of Nairobi streets, a man called me, “Hey mzungu (white), come here, I have money.” It’s funny the fact that he didn’t know the difference between an Indian and white. As a woman, we’re always taught to ignore in this society, so that’s what I did, … [Read more...] about An Indian on the streets of Nairobi
DYSPHORIA
Happiness What’s your true form? sometimes I feel you, sometimes I see you in other’s faces, what’s real and what’s not, is the million-dollar question, one that gets the wheels in my mind spinning. Day in day out, wondering if you truly are..or are just a creation of our … [Read more...] about DYSPHORIA