BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI “What drives you, Jazeera?” “I’m afraid of being poor. I’m always afraid that I won’t have money in my pocket that’s why I work so hard. I know that sounds crazy but that’s my motto. We’ve been there as a family, we’ve been through bad times and
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI I’m stressed. I didn’t know how stressed I was until last week Wednesday, when BAKE (Bloggers Association of Kenya) announced the shortlist for 2018 nominees; it’s a shortlist for the nominees whose blogs were selected by a select panel of judges to win a select title, the
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BY MIKE MUTHAKA Those were sad days. Everyone else was as jolly as Christmas would allow but you were holed up in your room, missing the festivities, going through an existential crisis. Nothing made sense. Or maybe you were being paranoid. Maybe it was just the pot. Either way, you
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BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI “It was about 2014 when I started crocheting again,” says Charity. “Mum was unwell and I wanted to make her something to make her happy. Just… something. She’s the one who taught me how to crotchet when I was
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BY MIKE MUTHAKA It was one of the first movies I ever watched on DVD. ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ starring Steve Martin and John Candy. The DVD cover was bluish and it showed an angry-looking Steve Martin. It’s a movie about an
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BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. Kabalagala There’s a place in Kampala called Kabalagala. Such a whippy name, aye, with its five A’s. It rolls well with the tongue. Say it again, you’ll catch yourself laughing. The back story is that the
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