A Scenario From the Abyss
Will the coming Kenyan elections be rigged? Of course. Will it matter? It depends. Elections have always been rigged – here in Kenya and, yes, even the United States of America. It is all a question of magnitude and perception. And it all depends on what we mean exactly by the word rig. If by […]
Kenya’s oscillating pendulums
Life, as the refrain goes, is a journey with many ups and downs. It is analogous to a pendulum, swinging back and forth perpetually at different amplitudes and speeds; an ocean current – ebbing and flowing ceaselessly in low and high tide. If this is true for human life, it stands to reason that the […]
Kenya’s oscillating pendulums
Life, as the refrain goes, is a journey with many ups and downs. It is analogous to a pendulum, swinging back and forth perpetually at different amplitudes and speeds; an ocean current – ebbing and flowing ceaselessly in low and high tide. If this is true for human life, it stands to reason that the […]
East Africa: The Arc of Perception is Bending
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” Dr Martin Luther King Junior once said, paraphrasing Theodore Parker, a 19th century church minister. Today, with respect to Africa, we can paraphrase Dr King and say the arc of negative perception has been long, but it is rapidly bending towards positive […]
Double Cup of Kap
Double Cup of Kap Gallery of Event Double Launch of the books: Telling it to the Birds, I Blame the Sky; by Author Kap Kirwok. and Poetry and Music Performance Programme Schedule Date: February 16, 2012 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm Venue: The Michael Joseph Center Guest of Honor Justice Isaac Lenaola Master of Ceremonies: […]
I met Jason Kap in ‘jail’
I met Jason Kap in ‘jail’. Both of us had been condemned for analysing Kenya. I was thrown-in during 2001 when the Nation Group invited me to interpret Moi. That is when my ‘jail term’ started. Jason was locked up a few years later. They told us that he was a clever man from Kenya […]
Kenya’s political landscape is an oratory desert
Words have power. No surprise there. We know this because words can heal or hurt; they can tickle and tame an impulse. Words can titillate, incite and excite. They can also lift or crash the human spirit. They are the currency by which we trade promises and praises; insults and prayers. We live by words […]
It is the bubble, stupid
Bubble. It is a simple, two-syllable word that sounds innocent enough. On closer examination, however, you quickly discover that it can be a window to a whole world of meaning about life. This year the word bubble has mostly been used in the context of economics: the housing bubble that spawned a market bubble that […]
Life’s Journey
To dress your dreams in garments of fancy delight To wrap ephemeral thoughts in bubbles of sweet pain Or, to dart about in wings of vain glory before you alight Such is the nature of life’s journey, however vain.
Once a writer by Beatrice Obwocha
Jason Kap Kirwok is the country director of TradeMark East Africa and is also an acclaimed author. He spoke to BEATRICE OBWOCHA about humble beginnings and pursuing what he loves most — writing Jason Kap Kirwok, or Kap, as most people call him, grew up in a small village in Mt Elgon and attended local […]
