HOPEFUL HEART, DISTURBING THOUGHTS

I could hear passengers laughing heartily while watching a certain comic clip on the moderate screen that was airing the now mundane suicide bomber in a loosely fitting thwab and a keffiyeh that masks his face. I wanted to laugh but could not. My thoughts were on how to...

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THE HURDLES OF BROTHER JERO

“Excuse me sir, I came for my certificate.” A bewildered former KU student was telling one of my clients, a lecturer in the institution.  “Young man, first correct your sentence. Came is past. Can you talk like someone who knows English?” I looked at the...

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SHE LEFT

Every other time, I usually want to rave and rant about my weekly successes, trials and tribulations of the job I am doing. Luckily, I have a notebook to jot down the excitement, the indifference and frustrations of looking for existing and potential clientele. Some you...

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RATS

As a child, we used to live in a house where the garage served as a pantry. My old man was kind of a peasant farmer and hence ensured there was plenty of grains in the house so that his kids never went hungry on any given day. As such, stuff like githeri and beans were...

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