Author: <span>Shiku Njathi</span>

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights before the dark hour of reason grows. These words, by John Betjeman, ushered me into the movie The Boy in…

Love

Is there something wrong with speaking in your vernacular in a public place? What exactly makes it wrong? It is a language like any other. Personally, Kikuyu is the first…

Kenya

Today I will be brief. I spent a day with students who were paying tribute to a teacher they loved. A teacher who inspired them to be better. They talked…

Love

In a span of a week, I have attended two funerals. One was unbelievable, the kind you only believe when you see the body lying peacefully in that coffin. He…

Faith

I will not even ask how you are because I know the answer. You are not fine. You act like you are but you are not. Every day you wake…

Love

“What’s the difference between an atheist and a Christian you ask? For starters, the average atheist has read the Bible from start to finish.” Whoa, did that take you aback?…

Faith

Today I will be brief, mostly because I have no power to enjoy my time online. You spend four hours in a jam and you start questioning civilization as it…

Ideas

Maybe I am too young to talk about men but I believe I have seen enough to give my two cents. When I was young, I was told, as is…

Love

I just began with a cliché…oh well… I just got back home for a very long holiday, one of those that everyone expects you to get a job. Anyway, that…

Faith

Yesterday night, or rather, morning (it was around 1 a.m.), I freaked myself out. It is the norm for me to sleep later than everyone in the house which is…

Ideas

Kenya Love

Is there a line between thinking too much and worrying? If there is, I have definitely crossed it. The root of this is because I have this strong compliance with…

Love

Faith

That’s right, I love you. Shocked? Happy? Confused? I know. I totally get where you are coming from, it is just that I do not understand why we are conditioned…

Love

Today was awesome, mostly because it was a Sunday. It happens to be the day I get to listen to some serious nuggets of wisdom from speakers. It was an…

Faith