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One highlight of my visit was my friends and I being waved down the street by a hawker because the national anthem was playing at the presidency.
A curious distinction is that toilet bowls in the Lome airport are pretty low, almost at small boys’ level, while those in Dakar are pretty high.
We were grounded for eight hours, only making it to Dakar 24 hours after I had left Nairobi, sleep-deprived and discombobulated by the experiences of the last dozens of hours.
Like a thief in the night, we had driven into Dakar in the dark, and here I was departing in the dark.
Today is Mazingira Day, so I was expecting the powers that be, to lead in a tree-planting drive.
There is big news from the Catholic church: Its leadership is switching the altar wine.
One of the nation’s most charismatic politicians was on the stage, performing his political shows that oscillated from riddles to ribaldry.
Say his name: Raila Amolo Odinga. It was the identity that he was given at birth, sealed with baptism by near fire
As if anticipating the drama that would follow upon the event of his death, Raila Amolo Odinga required that his remains be laid to rest within three days.
President William Ruto assented to the new draconian Bills, while praising the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga as the embodiment of our freedom.
The youngest man of the house recently got an early taste of elective politics after he declared that he’d run for captainship of his House.
Mbuzi ya wazee has a cultural significance, It’s how menfolk in central Kenya are getting together and learning about their cultural past.
Of course, we know what is written on paper and what happens on the ground often vary, because of something called tenderpreneurs.
Before me was a bowl of fruit, the pink from the dragon fruit flavouring my mood with a certain cheerfulness.
There are certain things that Mama Suluhu has assured the world are un-Tanzanian.
M7 has expressed a grand vision of annihilating Kenya from the face of the earth by annexing its land
The man of the moment was Samuel Mwing’alya, a diligent mechanic at the fuel station who accurately diagnosed the problem
Africa is first world, because its resources were plundered through slavery and colonialism to prop and subsidise life in so-called First World.
Baba Yao’s smelt a rat and sought his freedom using the formal route, assuring the court that he’d secure a bank guarantee of Sh53 million as bail.
The hard part will be developing a legal framework to regulate the sale and consumption of bangi.
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