Essays

The Playground (2025)   ‘This is why I love Kenya,’ the posters at the airport said. With the Lion, the Zebra, the dashing Mzungu a head above the local colour.   Old Africa magazine promised  stories from East Africa’s past.…

Naivasha Chronicles 07 (2024)   My mother taught me to keep my voice low so the neighbors would think we were happy.   She said, a boy’s body is a locked door, he tucks his grief inside the lining of…

Chenga the Politician(2025)   Chenga promised the chief a mat made of copper.     He told the people an eel is a snake,   an elephant has hips.   He called a cat a polecat and said pigs love crows.  …

Speaking in Part (2025)   “Love doth never fall away.” – 1 Corinthians 13:8 (Geneva Bible, 1599) It may happen that something happens; wind blow—storm break—thunder fall —the grim hour come to at last: and the  love-fashioned house, foundering on…