How we are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: A Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) experience

RELI Kenya members engaging government education officials during the competency based curriculum (CBC) conference in 2019. "Stay home and keep safe" this message is on a loop in our minds as we see and hear it everywhere we go. We are living in uncertain times, and it is impossible to predict the future. There is

Taking Stock; May-June 2018

Creating : meaningful content for our next quarterly project e-newsletter.Cooking : Managu in coconut cream, dry fried beef & Ugali.Drinking : The dawa concoction, ideal voice recovery strategy after a fun-filled long weekend.Reading: Currently on Big Girl by Danielle Steel, just bought my next read as well; eat-pray-love by Elizabeth Gilbert.Wanting: To go on a

Where it all Started

No. I didn't start this blog because I had a passion for writing. If there's anything I value the most though; my books, my exercise books, note books, diaries, just anything I've scribbled on. I was one of the best composition writers in my class in primary school. By best I mean we'd score a

Guilty Pleasures

I have a maximum of 20 minutes to quickly put up this post. My friend is picking me up in an hour and I haven’t even thought of what to wear to these posh social gatherings. I’m riding on her date since whomever she is going to see would like to discuss farming and I’m

I know why the experienced ones preach

PART 1 She had never spoken to me like that before. Her words would replay in my mind for weeks and months to come. I was terrified by the way she raised her voice as if the next thing would be the huge flat palm of her hand landing on my cheeks. Our relationship had

Born a Crime

I am still roaming the streets of South Africa. I happen to be writing this from the hood, life was getting cheesy then all of a sudden the hard disk and the entire computer was destroyed. How did it even affect my productivity at work today? Just one of those lazy Friday afternoons in the

حب hubun

If Love is meant to be a beautiful thing, why then do we suffer while at it? Everywhere I go, no one in this era believes in marriage or a real working relationship. I might be an exception but you won’t understand my reasons. The love I live for is that where I give all

Hangover

I have just landed from Zimbabwe! Pheeeeeew! I had waited so long to come back home. Zim wasn’t what I expected. There are some novels that tell a great story with a happy ending but there are others that leave us in distress. ‘‘The hairdresser of harare’ has been on my bucket list for the

A TALE OF TWO ALLIANCES

I’m still thinking about a sub headline I spotted on the papers this morning; could Raila be a jubilee mole in opposition? It could only mean one thing, a tale of two alliances that are one. This how it all began back in 2008, a broken and divided country. A country with flowing rivers full of

Mrembo

If I said I made it through the year because I didn’t snooze, would you doubt me?   I woke up almost every morning and hit the road, first a morning ritual; a 15 minutes run and a tummy trim workout (the tummy is still hanging on, smh) but I’m not about that life of