Wanjiru Waithaka is a Kenyan author whose debut novel The Unbroken Spirit, won the third prize in the adult fiction category of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in 2007; the most prestigious literary award in the country. The novel was published in 2005 by the East African Educational Publishers (EAEP) and attracted rave reviews…
Year: 2015
Strathmore Drill: Mimicking Reality Is Not A Joke
Prank skits on Kenyan TV have become a most annoying trend. They clutter your visual space and the slapstick is rarely funny. These skits initially invaded our mindscape as cheap downtime fillers and oddly Kenyans have become desensitized to the phenomenon. Pranksters left loose among the public can create disturbance in ways likely to increase…
What Kind Of Ugly Are You?
Zimbabwe has a pageant for Mr. Ugly and it turned ugly this year because a man with four missing front teeth and lips that could flap in the wind was deemed to be too handsome. I think it should be renamed Mr. Confidence. What kind of miro brags about winning “The Mr. Ugly contest?” Try…