BY MIKE MUTHAKA I didn’t get around to interviewing a millennial this week. So I’m just going to tell you about my new loafers. Two weeks ago, for the first time in my life – on a hot Saturday afternoon – I
BY MIKE MUTHAKA “I ask why in everything. Sometimes I get my answers. Sometimes I don’t. It’s life.” “Why do you ask ‘why’?” I ask. “Because life for me is made up of whys and why nots. But why not is not a good enough answer. It’s a shortcut. I
BY MIKE MUTHAKA Mordecai Nuni isn’t quick to laugh. Corruption and people who don’t get his jokes sadden him. But puns and genuine banter make him happy. When we meet, he tells me
BY MIKE MUTHAKA “We create. We’re actually gods. We build cities. We design. We do art. We can shape the world.” Joy Wangu Munge, 22, smells like cherry blossom perfume. She’s had a long week. She’s a
BY MIKE MUTHAKA On December 3rd 2016, after six years of courtship, at Blessed Sacrament Church, Buruburu–in front of friends and family—Patrick Njuguna, alias Patoh, wed Mary Rita Njoki. He was only
BY MIKE MUTHAKA In the last 36 hours I’ve taken about 10 mugs of water with lemon, ginger and honey. I have a flu, a flu that makes me lazy and woozy. I rarely get flu. My head feels like a vessel of mucus. On Monday I bent down to