I was among some the first group of rescuers to arrive at the bomb blast site in downtown Nairobi in 1998 when Al Qaeda terrorists hit the US embassy. We had no special training in disaster response. Simply, ordinary citizens who showed up on the spur of the moment to see with our own eyes,…
Year: 2013
Our Man In Somalia: Reflections On The War On Terror
… It is almost two weeks into Kenya’s invasion of Somalia. If you don’t watch the news or read the papers you could almost forget that Kenya is at war. There is so much new information streaming in daily. It is getting harder to decipher hype from fact. Feelings of uncertainty are rising in the…
Two Husbands Are Better Than One
I don’t know if you caught ‘the man bites dog’ headline last week? Two men who live in Kisauni, Mombasa County came to the sensible agreement to share a woman they had been having an affair with for more than four years. The woman at the centre of this sharing arrangement basically refused to make…