Have you noticed that they are hardly any news presenters over 50 on our screens these days? Julie Gichuru is about as old as it gets and if she wasn’t easy on the eye, she would have had to take up a managerial position. The obvious reason is that older women are not firmly curvy…
Month: October 2014
Why I Am Afraid Of Female Bigots
I was moderating a forum a few moons ago, titled, “The Future of Men”. The general intention was to get a group of disparate men to talk about personal experiences of manhood and imagine a future dominated by positive male ethos, the kind that women want. As it so happens, this forum was attended by…
The Rule Of The Cane
“Nitachapa wewe kiboko” was a widely used threat in my formative years. It tended to be applied by figures of authority; parents, teachers, chiefs, judges, policemen when addressing lowly subjects. I grew up with corporal punishment back when everyone was fit for a caning. No one was beyond a good beating and some teachers just…