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I was recently listening to a late night TV show where the guest panelist was saying, "I remember when we were young, a blue collar wage was enough to buy a home, feed the household and put the kids through college. Nowadays, a white collar worker has to hold down two or more jobs, take up a lot of debt, or start several side-businesses just to get by." He narrated how in the 70s and the 80s, when he was a young boy growing up in the rural western part of Kenya, a single shilling could buy bread, milk, and leave some cents to spare. The high...
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Sinarta is my hometown. It is a small town on a hill that overlooks the Grange Valley on one side and Lake Naples on the other. On the shores of the lake are flower plantations. Sometimes a cool morning breeze carries the scent of myriad flowers to the inhabitants of Sinarta.It has often been said that the day Bobby came to town, a jasmine-scented breeze was blowing from the lakeside. It was a cold day in February. Most people were indoors, watching Netflix and drinking hot fluids. Anyone who had business to do outdoors was heavily clad in j...
Mike reminded himself to stay cool. He could only make things worse if he tried to intervene. As he was lay in his bed, alone and in the dark, he muttered his mantra under his breath, "Let nature take its course. Let God have His way. Let nature take its course. Let God..." He trailed off and was fast asleep. When he woke up the next day, he was in a better frame of mind. It seems his self-hypnosis had worked. He did not need to chant his mantra again. He felt at ease with his surroundings and stoic about any circumstances that might have ...
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Mfalme means King in Kiswahili. President Mark Pombe was the Mfalme of Tanga. His African name was Pombe - Swahili for that drink that makes people go blem for real.The "Padlock man", as he was famously referred to in some social circles, was known the world over for his idiosyncratic ideas and isolationist policies. His regime was insular, conservative, oppressive. He had minimal involvement abroad, he was a real "Moustache Pete" with his moral crusade on the restoration of traditional values and integrity in political and social life, and ...
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