Author Archives: Nyar Kaheti

Palm Sunday and the triumphant entry into the Holy city reminds me of my Sunday school days and the Sunday school competitions well covered in my previous chronicle the scramblehttps://thechroniclesofnyarkaheti.com/2022/01/22/the-scramble/Well there was this time when the competition was about the triumphant entry. Everything from the choral verse, the set piece, the drama and the folkContinue reading “Palming.”

Once upon a time, gakware and her sisters went to cut nappier grass for my pet Nyange. If you’ve not read my chronicle stronger here’s the link.http://thechroniclesofnyarkaheti.com/2022/02/07/stronger/So gakware is minding her own business and singing at the top of her lungs like she’s preparing to audition for Tusker project fame, America’s got talent or NigerianContinue reading “Wiser”

Shortages, we are riding on all sorts of them; fuel, milk, rainfall na kadhalika. Like George Strait’s song, ‘This is where the cowboy rides away’ I can’t help but think that this is where Wanjikū rides away. But as usual, we haven’t had enough yet, we still want to be trampled.I however think back inContinue reading “Ungrateful”

‘It’s raining, it’s pouring The old man is snoring He went to bed but he bumped his head and couldn’t get up till morning.’ that’s how they sing nowadays. Those days we sang, ‘mbura ura ngūthīnjīre, gategwa karī iguku, na kangī karī iguku kaugaga atīa mooo.’ which translates, ‘rain rain, I slaughter for you, aContinue reading “Bullied”

Lakini why is treasury failing to pay these fuel subsidies? Wanjikū and I are on the receiving end because this hoarding of fuel by the gas stations is only adding to our list of unending problems. First, it was cooking oil prices, now it’s gasoline shortage. Si watengeneze engine ya maji ngaenda hapa Thiba naContinue reading “Fuelled”

April fool’s day is here with us. I remember a story in a courtroom whereby they say that an atheist went to petition against there not being a holiday for atheists. The judge read for him that part in the Bible that says, ‘the fool says in his heart there is no God.’ He bangedContinue reading “Fooled”

Trying to pull a Whoopie Goldberg look in the jungle is not easy. A Boomerang might pass by and decide to say hey, or you might sit on a skin shedding python thinking it’s a log. And talking of skins, they make shoes from them, don’t they? Which reminds me of the Moccasin shoe andContinue reading “Honourable”

When we were growing up and the digital world had not been borne, it would take a week to know our exam results. Right now you just need to send the index number to a certain number and pap, the results are sent to you in the blink of an eye. You don’t even getContinue reading “Doctored”

Listening to music is therapeutic to the soul, that’s why in 2009 when Safaricom Ltd decided to capitalize on it by launching the skiza (listen) tunes service everyone was thrilled. We’d change from tone to tone in a split second. Not wanting to be left behind like in the rapture story. I think Richie spiceContinue reading “Peppered”

The recent Police recruitment drive has taken me back in time and striked a rare chord. You may have read my chronicle on tarmacking/ job hunting, I feel like this is a top up to it.I don’t remember how I came to know that there was an armed forces recruitment in my areas back inContinue reading “Walk of shame.”