Haiti Cherie What word can encompass stretch its arms and wrap them around
A day when the world returns to the dust it was
Before we fashioned orderly chaos and
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Halima Ana Mimba Halima ana mamba, alopachikwa na simba,
Yaani-Bwana Kamau, atokae Timau,
Kitumbua chake kaingia mchanga, ilhali Kamau shujaa,
Malaika wa miaka kumi
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Fresh PaintThe smell of
fresh paint reminds me of a fresh coffin. I cannot stand it. It hits my nose
and I step back from the door, slapped by the vicious hand
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Death by DominoesWhen the assassins come they kill everyone. That is what you must
understand. Death is coming. It's at the door. Though uttered weeks
earlier, on a
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Fatherhood Blues27 years ago I promised myself that I would write a book when I turned 50. I am 4 years late and not quite ready to write an entire book. Here I am th
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ConversatingI'm waiting for a metro train to take me to Greenbelt
Station. I walk into a conversation between an old Black man in a heavy black woollen coat - it
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Africa's Media Explosion Charles Muigai is concerned that two years after violence broke out in Kenya following disputed elections, Kenyans have done little to avoid a repeat
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Gifts for Mama“Who would marry me if he finds out I have children?” she announced. “Sele is the one, mama.”
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Imbeciles"They are all imbeciles”, I screamed inwardly as I looked at the bent over their desks, “all imbeciles! Do they really think there i
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