Tag: Kisauti

I went on a date last night. We had met twice before and there were sparks. We had planned to meet on Christmas but I never showed. This

This is a true story. Names and places have been altered to protect the identity of the narrator. More than once she paused and almost broke down while

11:00am. That’s the time we’re seated in the living room with my niece and my mom watching In Pursuit of Happiness starring Will Smith and my mom starts

We’re getting to the end of the year and the end of the decade. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the decade I

My dad wants us to have coffee. Coffee for my dad is code for, “I want you to give me a status update of where your life is

Nairobi, December 1990 Nzioka was in distress. He was leaving his young bride behind to go and work for the Nairobi Times newspaper branch in Mogadishu. He looked

I’m writing this on a Tuesday afternoon at Java Kimathi. I’m upstairs overlooking Kosewe’s. My ears are full to the brim with a cocktail of the hooting of

I am doing a story series called Nairobi Love, documenting the trauma we go through in relationships and how we try to heal. This is the second story