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In my childhood days, when most of my agemates were reading Kadogo At School and other such books, I was reading The Weekly Review There were books and there were newspapers and there were magazines, and then there was Weekly Review, founded, owned and published by Hillary Ng'weno My appetite...

1. Cpl Caroline Kangogo invited her newly acquired unnamed boyfriend to her house in Nakuru Police Lines 2. Her old boyfriend, John Ogweno visited, not knowing that his co-husband was in. He left in a huff 3. The new boyfriend also left and this made Cpl Kangogo distraught. How could an old...

The government is planning to repatriate all Somalia refugees in Dadaab. This will offer a spectacular scene akin to the wild beast migration, if it was to happen in one trip The initial population of refugees, estimated by UNHCR, was close to 400k They will fit into 6,666 buses, with a 60...

Those who grew up in the villages, in the 80s recall there was a ritual we performed before going to bed, every night. We'd go to the three stones fireplace to bury the embers in the ash The following day, the first thing in the morning would be to exhume the ashes and check for anything red...

As Kenyans launch a massive manhunt for Magufuli amid rumours that he could either be alive or otherwise, Ugandans have gone ahead and "killed" Kibaki, in retaliation News of the "death" of Kenya's immediate former president has been circulating in the social media, with netizens sending their...

President Uhuru Kenyatta inadvertently set that uniformed militia called police, on helpless citizens with his address to the nation on Friday That very evening twas helter-skelter, miguu niponye, as well fed cops hunted down malnourished citizens, emaciated from the hardships of life, chasing...

Someome once sought my opinion on the country's public debt that has shot higher than a skyrocket in the recent past I responded by assuring him that the issue was the least of my bother. It didn't/doesn't worry me at all, as long as no one un-tethers my goat to go sell it to pay the Chinese I...

"So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound think of it for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?" (Luke 13:16, NKJV) FREEDOM This lady who came into the synagogue where Jesus was had been bent over for eighteen years. She had been bound by...

Yesterday, the grapevine was rife with speculations that Dr Magufuli was admitted in a Nairobi Hospital with COVID-19 related complications We wish him a speedy recovery. However, I still insist that his approach, to the pandemic was pedestrian and even a layman would predict doom for the...

"And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him." (Luke 15:20, NLT) WILL YOU WAIT FOR THEM? The prodigal son took his father's inheritance and wasted it all on wild living and partying. Yet...

Post-colonial African countries want to develop, but the big question is: Develop from what to what? Where is the energy for that development? From Christianity or Islam? For the clarity of my argument, let me focus on Christianity in Kenya with a claim that 80 percent of Kenyans are Christians...

KITUYI launches his campaign and goes straight for Wetangula's jugular I see the two will keep themselves busy until when elections will be over. Remember Kombo and Kituyi previously engaged in a similar battle and each succeeded in determining the other meaning they all went home An sage once...

BETRAYAL is the hallmark of Kenyan politics. Many have been betrayed before and many more will be betrayed in future Rayila was being fattened for slaughter. He has now come to the abattoir It has ended in premium tears. The hyena now wants to eat her cubs, but first, she must accuse them of...

"So don't be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom. (Luke 12:32, NLT) YOUR FATHER'S WORLD We knew a very successful widowed man who remarried, and at the age of sixty-five found out they were going to have his first child. When his wife gave...

There is this bird called Arum Tidi, in dholuo. It should be a hornbil in English. The bird is believed to be a messanger of death, and must never be allowed to perch in the compound, because that means the homestead is about to lose someone A sling must be fetched and stones fired in her...

Today’s Scripture "...Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant." (Psalm 35:27, He Delights in Your Prosperity Our God is a running-over God! He doesn’t want you to just have barely enough to meet your own needs. God wants you to be so blessed that when...

GIDEON MOI is Uhuru's preferred successor The deep state is supporting him with the state machinery His running mate maybe Musalia Mudavadi Mudavadi is expected to deliver the 100% of the Luhya vote to a Gideon who has at most 10% of the Kalenjin vote, and since Uhuru can sway upto 70% of the...

Today's Scripture “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin.” (Zechariah 4:10, NLT) DO NOT DESPISE SMALL BEGINNINGS When David went out to face Goliath, all he had was a slingshot and five smooth stones. It looked insignificant, ordinary, and...

Preachers in evangelical crusades only have a problem with "walevi" and "wavuta bangi" and "wachawi" They see nothing wrong with an administrator of a local dispensary who steal drugs from the facility for sale in his private pharmacy, a stone throw away from the hospital Each time a patient...