Am I a literary hoax?

There’s a big fat sign in the corner of my blog. Have you noticed? This is the blog from the Storymoja blog this week. I have been struggling valiantly to read Dust by Yvonne Owuor. My cousin has hailed it as one of the greatest novels of its time; she says something about nuances and […]

MY NAIROBI

The first thing most people think when they hear ‘Kenya’ is the classic brilliant sunsets silhouetted by the figures of colorful Maasai warriors and elephants on a savannah. And of course, loud, ‘African-sounding’ drums. There are always drums. I’ve never seen an elephant. And of course I can’t run particularly fast, not since I was […]