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Shorter Thoughts

Chance and Circumstance

It is amazing how much contingent forces – the idea of chance and circumstance – shape the contours of human

Chemoge Secondary School

26th July 2014 is significant because on this day, I achieved one of my dreams: to make a lasting contribution

Talkshops

Conferences: Why do we have so many talkshops? Talk, talk, and talk again – for talk’s sake. It is a

Mpeketoni

Forget Mpeketoni & similar symptoms.Tremble at the politically correct criminals that are increasingly capturing state power & machinery. Is Kenya

Uncertainty – revisited

Irag today is an abject lesson in the folly of prediction. I say again, as before: anything & everything is

Tempting Fate

We (human beings, especially the politicians among us) seem hard-wired to tempt fate. You see, we are happy to test

Disequilibrium

On the current state of the nation: disequilibrium is good – up to a point – because within it is

distance to doom

Among humans, it is amazing how short the distance is from civility to incivility; and from sanity to madness. Very

Memories – what use…?

Tacked somewhere within the soft folds of my brain are sweet memories – of yesterday. But what is the use

Soyinka

Wole Soyinka – truly the king of expansive metaphors and verbal inventiveness: the learner of English as a second language

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