Land ho!
On the road toward a home of my own.
Continue ReadingForeign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
On the road toward a home of my own.
Continue ReadingWhen you’ve lived in a place like this for eleven years
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Continue ReadingCouldn’t help but think of Venezuela’s 2018 presidential race that re-elected Nicolas Maduro to a second six-year term, and that was thought to be rigged. However it would appear that Smartmatic the multinational that builds and implements electronic voting systems is one of the good guys. Kenya’s electoral authority has condemned the “brazen” arrest in […]
Continue ReadingFirst came a floating bar. Now a lone floating slot machine? The heralding of Lamu’s first casino? Jackpot! Alas, no. The standing digital petrol pump meters out fuel far more accurately than the hoses usually reserved to fill boats’ tanks. Here, as elsewhere, fuel is expensive. Every shilling counts. Fishermen say they can spend an […]
Continue Reading“It’s a zero-sum game between Ruto and Raila with everything hanging in the balance.”
Continue ReadingGiven all that he’d achieved I wondered how he’d been overlooked for a knighthood. “The Brits don’t like me,” he said. “My father was pro Mau-Mau.”
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