June 19, 2009
Wife Beater Jailed for Stealing Brother's Ram
June 10, 2009
“ The chocolate bar was SO BIG we had to smash it into portions so that he could at least lift them. I’m sure that if he’d had the strength he would have thanked you.
Via SMS
“ It turned out he had once been the most august chairman of xxxx xx. We felt so sorry for him his condition and the terrible tale of his fall from grace and riches that we gave him all your pressies and chocolate.
“ Draped only in disgusting rags and crouched in partial shade on a threadbare prayer rug he was holding a battered old bowl whilst mouthing alms bwana tafadali so painfully through grime laden cracked lips
“ Dear William yesterday whilst searching in a distinctly desperate fashion for any kind of lion sighting whatsoever we came across a poor beggar in an appalling physical state.
May 28, 2009

Thursday in the Mara.

  • Reading the paper?
  • Yeah, I'm reading the paper.
  • Today's?
  • It's never today's, here it's always yesterday.
  • Um, Tuesday 26th?
  • Yeah you see, yesterday.
May 23, 2009

It's Our Turn to Eat

It’s easy to forget the sheer dreariness of Moi’s Kenya, when the system sought to crush the debate that leads to political challenge. The country’s small group of intellectuals felt besieged. ‘Books were incredibly important, things to be cherished,’ remembers Rasna Warah, a columnist for the Nation. Nairobi bookshops would not officially stock works deemed to offend the presidency, but they could usually be bought discreetly under the counter, hidden amongst a spray of magazines, if you knew the right code word. ‘You never knew for sure what had been officially gazetteed as a banned book,’ says Warah, ‘so you stashed your entire library under your bed. If you owed a book that might have been banned, you photocopied it and it circulated in A4 form, person to person, because then it was easy to hide amongst your ordinary papers.

p.131; It’s Our Turn to Eat, by Michela Wrong

May 7, 2009
“ So I asked him, how do you kill a goat peacefully? And he said, we cover the mouth and the nose until he stops breathing. Ah, I said, so it’s not so peaceful for the goat? Yes, but it makes no noise.
Laura
May 6, 2009
“ They tried to bite down on the meat, but instead they got the stone. Now all their teeth have fallen.
Kimanjoi (I’m sure this sounds a lot better in Maa)
April 28, 2009

Small head explosions occured drinking tea today.

  • What, so the world is not flat?
  • No, it's round.
  • Really?
  • Yes.
  • Well that changes things.