In the riveting TV series Game of Thrones, set in a highly fantasy world filled with orgies of medieval European violence, debauchery, fire spitting dragons and intriguing power struggles, there was a recurring line. “Winter is Coming”. For the better part of the first three seasons, the lords of ‘North’ spent their waking hours, worrying…
Tag: Nairobi
The Writing Is On The Wall
The construction of the security wall between Kenya and Somalia has begun. 700kms of concrete to fend off Al Shabaab insurgents along the Kenya- Somalia border. The basis of the wall is flawed. The timing, knee-jerk. A good number of the terrorism suspects are Kenyans, living securely within our borders. Their funding networks are embedded…
Who Are You Calling Native?
Many Kenyans were irked after American Bishop T.D Jakes use the N-word in a sermon in Dallas, USA. The clip that went viral was drawn from a section of a sermon where Jakes criticizes the materialistic lifestyle of the pastors in a new reality hit series ‘The Preachers of L. A” which he dismissed as…