Author Archives: Nyar Kaheti

The day I decided to sneak from school is the same day that my old man decided to knock on the headteacher’s door. You may call it stupidity or foolishness but I think that Karma was very much lurking in the neighborhood such that even after seeing my old man waltz into the school compound,Continue reading “The judgement”

There was this one time that I had an experience with thieves, let me call them that because robbers sound like too big a term to use here. I didn’t really get the eye witness view but the thing is that they stole my bag which had all my clothes and important documents.At the timeContinue reading “Humbled”

We love the radio very much, even when the high definition amoled screens hadn’t graced our living rooms, she was a real charmer and companion. Back in the days we’d get to kutegea yaliyomo and lunch time music. There were also hours set for just reading greeting cards which ended with ,’KBC ndio nusu yaContinue reading “Nailed”

I vividly recall how in the early 2000’s after being given the power to read and do all that appertains to that paper, I stepped out of the Academic world and into the job hunting hemisphere. This was like a slap on your face only instead of a hand you were slapped with a bucketContinue reading “Asphalt”

With the sun in aquarius and the love season finally here with us I can’t help but wander back to the good ol’ days when love was bold and beautiful. Long distance relationships had not been heard of and sending fare would have been considered an abomination. Now the digital world has come with notContinue reading “Valentino”

With the East Africa safari classic rally awakening many a sleepy villages, that vroom vroom sound can’t help but take me back in time to those carefree childhood days. Back in the days, Kīamacimbi was the go to town. If you wanted to breathe, smell and probably even smoke the dust as you watched andContinue reading “Bubbly”

The harvest season came with a beehive of activities on the slopes. The best crop in this continuum though was beans. You just had to line up, bottom up (get set) and then start uprooting the dried stuff making sure not to break the pods. After uprooting we’d put them on a canvas/sacky material, allowContinue reading “Chaffed”

I grew up on the breathtaking slopes of the sweet mountain, well the one with snowcapped peaks discovered by one Sir Ludwig Krapf. Waking up to inhale the cool morning breeze while the birds chirped in the morning, I stretched myself and stared through the window at the sight before me. It was such aContinue reading “Stronger.”