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Speak No Evil

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI What would you do if you found out through his Tinder app that your son was gay? Me? I honestly don’t know what I’d do. I’d probably take a minute or more – maybe even a night, maybe a weekend or a season of three months –

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A Thirsty Performance

BY MIKE MUTHAKA I have a feeling he doesn’t like me too much. In his eyes I’m nothing but trouble. Each time he sees me I’m always in a flux. I say a cheery hello to him but he sees through my bullshit. He once stopped me at the door

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Like a rodeo

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI You tell me that your toddler is old enough to reach the door handle and let herself into your bedroom every morning. I find that amusing. I imagine her clambering off her cot, easing herself between the little space of the snugly fitting mosquito net and the

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Headlines

BY MIKE MUTHAKA She goes to Karura Forest on some Saturdays. She likes to walk along the narrow paths, with the sun rising grey and smoky behind her. She likes how the trees smell. She likes the serene silence and the clean air. Once in a while a group of

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Leonard

BY MIKE MUTHAKA The new addition to my nightstand is a hardback. It’s called The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw. It’s a collection of stories about the American men and women who fought in the war that brought down Hitler. I swear I can hear the American national anthem in

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