BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI The bad news isn’t that I’m ageing. The bad news is that I’m ageing, and I see it and feel it. I’m 33 now. I wouldn’t have noticed the needle of my body clock inch if I wasn’t so self aware and so alert to the shift
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BY MIKE MUTHAKA Did you know 2,000 bob will get you 25.84 liters of kerosene in Kitengela? I didn’t. But the guy who mans the kerosene pump at Kobil does. He wears a sweater underneath his lab coat even though it’s a few minutes past noon and the air is
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BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. The Headliner I call up my friend Sue who’s a jazz enthusiast. Her background is screaming with loud chatter and kadongo kamu music, the kind played at a malwa joint. I wonder if she’s on a date at a
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI “Why did you choose to make bags, Benta?” “I’d wanted to continue with doing shoes but lack of good quality soles led me to making bags, that was the easier option for me. Cause everything was available in Kenya – the leather, these fittings, the accessories of
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BY MIKE MUTHAKA Have you ever stood on Mama Ngina street, right outside International House, and one of the guards on the front steps is tapping on his phone, and a lady in a long dress is walking into the building and the sun has gone behind some clouds and
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BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. Yujo Izakaya Carol, my Tanzanian friend whom I met in Nairobi, told me the last time she was in Kampala, she ate Japanese food. I’ve never eaten anything Japanese. I’m a grasshopper guy. She said
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