It’s been 2 days since I officially became a college graduate. It will be another month until I can finally make the 26-hour travel back home. Home has been a place I have been grateful to have but also the place I have been privileged to leave. From as early as 17, I have had […]
Category: Musings
The Unsent Letter to the Modern Love Column of The New York Times
Each month, I save up my free NYT articles to be utilized solely within the modern love column. When the freebies fail to satiate me, as is often the case, I move on to their podcast which I religiously listen to on my way to school every Thursday morning. Recently, they had a college contest […]
Reflections from the Metropole
I have been living in the metropole aka London for a couple of months now I am studying in an institution that a couple of decades ago trained colonial administrators But it is 2019 and formal colonialism ended, no?
“African woman, you are on your own”: thoughts on twitter intellectualism, feminism and the capitalism that binds
Its been over a month since allegations about a Nairobi-based pastor , Ken Gomeri, as a sexual predator came out. It’s also been over a month since Khaligraph Jones was accused of domestic violence. In both of these cases, there has been a uniform response: silence. In other social media news, cheating is apparently a justification for […]
Twenty Four
Dear Chebet, I can’t believe that there was a time and a universe in which I knew you by a different name. At the end of this year, I will have known you for ten years and a time like this next year, you will have lived for a quarter of a century. But let’s […]