Nairobi, Oct. 15 -- Allan Kilavuka, for the first time in God-knows-when, no longer has an executive assistant. Setting up this interview with him stretched time into space. "It might sound trivial, b... Read More
Nairobi, Oct. 2 -- The last time I was at Red Ginger, there was a birthday party out in the gazebo. I had forgotten my jacket and was so cold I couldn't have fun. I remember looking across at the bar ... Read More
Nairobi, Oct. 1 -- Wilfred Bungei has been sober for 14 years and 11 days today. He knows because he counts. Not birthdays; he forgets those. He counts the days since September 20, 2012, his last drin... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 24 -- When Anselm Croze was born, his mother had her ducks smuggled into the maternity ward and hidden under her bed, because they had refused to eat without her. The family lived on a ... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 17 -- The only famous Catherines she knew growing up were dead Catherines. And because she wanted to know how it would feel to be famous, for your name to be read by the whole world, C... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 10 -- Early in Alice Kang'ethe's public-health career, on a trip to Mbita, a scorpion stung her. The pain was ferocious. She was far from a proper hospital, and her international health... Read More
Nairobi, Sept. 3 -- You always run into someone you used to know in a hotel bar. At least I do. I had just walked into Serena Kigali's Executive Lounge Bar, the one silenced by thick carpet, with a s... Read More
Nairobi, Aug. 27 -- You can dress like Tiger Woods, swing the best clubs money can buy, and still walk off the ninth hole with nothing to show for it, says Michael Njogu of golf. "Because the game, l... Read More
Nairobi, Aug. 27 -- If you are going to do another rooftop bar, do one like Dijo, over at Mandrake on Westlands's Ring Road. Have a long, generous bar while you're at it. Make it elegant. In fact, ma... Read More
Nairobi, Aug. 20 -- Homa Bay is in the news for having terrible roads. The Mbita-Sindo road is atrocious, yes. I have a home seven kilometres from where the tarmac ends at Icipe in Mbita and normally ... Read More