BY MIKE MUTHAKA I’m surrounded by nomads. One of them is in the living room, hanging above my favorite couch. Ol’ Man got him for 2K at some beach-side hotel in Mombasa. It’s a cool painting, really, an abstract; a herder, standing on one leg. He’s watching a herd of
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Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #2. IAN ARUNGA: CREATOR OF DAPPER MONKEY (AND PLENTY MORE) Sitting across from Ian Arunga at Lava Latte, listening, I picture him as a juggler manipulating several balls in the air. The first ball he threw into
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Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #1. WANJIRU NDUNG’U. WRITER AT HOOTING OWL I’m not one to binge on a series. I can count on one hand the number of TV serieses I’ve caught to the finale: ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘How I Met Your
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BY MIKE MUTHAKA I wonder how it felt to be on the stands of the last Kabeberi Sevens tournament. That Saturday, when the rugby tourney was slated to begin, I overslept and skipped my Saturday morning routine. My Saturday mornings are usually for ‘Top Gear’, though not the Matt-Le-Blanc variety.
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI One Friday in late January, my mentor and I had a meeting. We usually have meetings. Sometimes they’re loose meetings with no agenda, like a catch up over breakfast, other times they’re not loose meetings, they’re meetings with a heavy agenda, like to discuss growth and strategy
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BY MIKE MUTHAKA Beethoven is exhausted. He has pouches under his eyes. He can’t wait to finish the damn song and go home, sit in the tub with a pint of vodka. He’s been playing the piano all his life. In fact he dropped out of school – at 10
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