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KAWANGWARE TO KAKAMEGA: FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME

I’m loading bottles of drinking water into the Hino bus at 5:45 AM when Korir eases his car into 4th Ngong Avenue. As the Nairobi City Stars CEO, I am headed to Kakamega with the team because he had said I could. I’ve always wanted to travel with a football Read more…

By Victor, 2 daysMarch 23, 2023 ago
Long Reads

AT NYEGENYEGE, ON THE SHORES OF THE NILE, WE FOUND THE THEMES TO OUR LIVES.

Gilgil. Kenya. 14. 09. 2022 Towns fly past as the bus speeds by. Kinungi, Morendati, Gilgil, Kanyawa. I tug at my seatbelt, as the lights in the distance keep me fascinated. Vibrant towns during the day, they are white dots in the distance now, and are only slightly visible in Read more…

By Victor, 2 monthsFebruary 7, 2023 ago
Long Reads

The Safari Rally. An Enduring Icon of Roaring Entertainment

As posted on the KCB blog here KASARANI Thursday, 23rd June 2022. I find Wango near the arc where Nkrumah Avenue joins Moi Avenue, at the ATMs on KenCom House. The 70s-style, beige-coloured building, is one of Nairobi’s most distinct landmarks is KCB’s headquaters. Wango is dressed exactly how you’d imagine Read more…

By Victor, 2 monthsFebruary 7, 2023 ago
Profiles

TONY INTERVIEW: FINDING PURPOSE, DEALING WITH LOSS AND STAYING TRUE TO THE PROCESS

WHATSAPP | 11TH JULY 2022, 21:50 The first time I talked to Tony was after a game they had at Impala in January. I took photos of him and Robin, his teammate, and I had to take his number so I could share the photos after I got them from Read more…

By Victor, 8 monthsJuly 19, 2022 ago
Profiles

GONE TILL SEPTEMBER

I remember what breakfast was on the morning of March 4th, 2013. Hot mandazi that needed to be pinched carefully to avoid searing my fingers, and over-sugared, black tea. Like a lot of my agemates, it was my first time voting, and I had stayed up all night from the Read more…

By Victor, 11 monthsMay 6, 2022 ago
Long Reads

THE SECOND COMING OF RUTO

In the early afternoon of 29th December 2002, Uhuru Kenyatta read a concession speech in a packed hall, at the Serena Hotel, a few minutes from State House Nairobi. It was a formal, written acceptance of a resounding loss at the polls as KANU’s flagbearer, to Mwai Kibaki, then an Read more…

By Victor, 12 monthsApril 6, 2022 ago
Medium Reads

CORRUPTION AND TASTY SAMOSAS

I was nine the first time I was caught up in a corruption scandal . Mother sent me to the British Petroleum filling point near Ndurarua Primary to buy paraffin and I let myself be used by the forces of darkness and evil I was walking with my jerrycan, holding Read more…

By Victor, 1 yearNovember 25, 2021 ago
Medium Reads

MONEY, SEX AND A BLEAK FUTURE : ON YOUTH, WHY KENYA NEEDS TO CROSS THE RUBICON.

In a dimly lit alley in Dandora, a young woman walks nervously. She’s carrying a baby on her back, and the bag she is half-carrying, half-dragging is clearly heavy. She keeps looking behind her, like she is running from something or someone that would pop up any minute, and her Read more…

By Victor, 1 yearNovember 16, 2021 ago
Short Reads

I KNOW WE HAD SEX, BUT PLEASE REMIND ME YOUR NAME

There’s a sexual revolution happening in Kenya. For the first time in ages, sex toy shops, which were barely breaking even, are making profits; big, veiny dildos are selling out as fast as whips and handcuffs are (btw you might want to stop reading here if you’re saved and genuinely Read more…

By Victor, 1 yearNovember 8, 2021 ago
Profiles

BLAZE : TRAVEL LIGHT, BECAUSE WHAT YOU OWN, OWNS YOU.

It’s a thirty-minute commute from Nairobi’s CBD to Ruiru, but the traffic makes it forty-five. I’m meeting Blaze, stylized as @B3laze on Twitter, to talk to him on his de facto role as one of Kenyan Twitter’s most prominent young, male voices. We are meeting at Smash, a clean, tiny Read more…

By Victor, 2 yearsAugust 11, 2021 ago

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