Category: Lifestyle
Lifestyle
I meet her on Thursday at the barbershop. She’s the masseuse washing my head and giving me a massage. “Kwani ulipotelea wapi?” She asks.
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Lifestyle
A youthful woman has just opened her door from the next flat. She’s in my direct line of vision. She knows if I lift my head from my
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Lifestyle
I find him in my kitchen sink, in the morning. He startles me by how quickly he moves. Small, crawling animals often inflict a certain kind of terror.
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Lifestyle
She remembers that this venue was his pick for their date. She had wanted a more uppity location but he had insisted on this one.
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Lifestyle
It’s raining in heavy sheets and my 5:00 am alarm is going off somewhere in my blankets, in a muffled sound. I make for it and grab my
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Nairobi Love
I didn’t think I would be forty and failing at love, yet here I was at Kasarani Police Station reporting the woman I loved.
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Lifestyle
I am writing this on a Monday afternoon. The sky is a clear blue and the sun is high up burning a hole into the sea of blue.
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Nairobi Love
This is a true story. Names and places have been altered to protect the identity of the narrator. She hasn’t told this story before, not to her family,
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