Author Archives: Nyar Kaheti

Friday is the day of the week that most of us look forward day. Here in 254, we call it furahiday. Ooh and a happy day it usually is. Mwalimu Mbūgua called it member’s day. But when I was growing up, I had a different Fridsy. So lemmi tell you Maina about this my Friday.Continue reading “Friday”

New year comes with resolutions and superstitions. There is this superstition that what you do as the year starts; you’ll keep doing it for the rest of the year. Then there are resolutions that we make each year only to give up on them before Njaanuary ends.After I did my last story on maigoya leavesContinue reading “The drive”

Down by the bay where the watermelons grow, back to my home,I dare not go, for if I go my mama will say, have you ever seen a pig, wearing a wig… So I took a walk down by the bay and chanced upon these natural velvety wipes scientifically known as Plectranthus Barbatus. Don’t takeContinue reading “Chanced”

When boxing day comes your way but Santa forgot your lane so you find yourself with a full day and nothing to do. You find yourself sucking on a 🍭 but unlike Charlie pride, in the Mississippi cotton picking delta town, where he had folks to stare at and they stared right back at him,Continue reading “Boxed”

So this is Christmas, and what have you done…..As Celine dion strikes yet another high chord, I can’t help but feel like the Christmas spirit is no longer with me. I don’t know if too much has been placed on my shoulders and since I’m a person who mostly lives in her mind, I’m hardlyContinue reading “Chordy”

The rainy season brings with it a myriad of activities including planting, weeding and picking coffee among others. Being born and raised in a humongous family had plenty of perks when it came to tasks execution. After all they say that, ‘tūnūa tūingī tūhītagagia oo tūkīrīa,’that’s French for many mouths only confront each other whenContinue reading “Perky”

Girls are born artists or so I think especially when it comes to ‘kupa Yesu Kristo compe.’ You see instead of writing on the ground with a finger like Jesus did when they brought that woman who was caught in the act; girls use their toes to draw on the ground. A girl can drawContinue reading “The parting shot”

Visiting day was the only day we were allowed to break the one and only rule that I remember from my high school days. You see when I joined ‘can go free ‘ high school I was given a pamphlet containing several school rules. One rule that seemed to stand out of the rest wasContinue reading “Rumbly”

Bell ringers should officially join the class of people who have made it in life. I mean who else would swipe his/her arm with an attitude, look at his disco watch and with his head held high, traipse out of the most dreaded teacher’s classroom in a high gait and escape unscathed. Ati ameenda kupigaContinue reading “Detected”