Nairobi, April 23 -- In 2014, two years before the diagnosis, Mildred Odhiambo began fading from her own life. Not dramatically - quietly. The school committee went first. Then church activities and c... Read More
Nairobi, April 23 -- Last time I visited Amsterdam, seven years ago, I ate steak and burgers in a very strange steakhouse on Handboogstraat. That experience never left me. The place was a peculiar mix... Read More
Nairobi, April 9 -- It takes a full three-course meal for Vincent Rague to fully exhaust his professional resume. And not that he speaks slowly. The resume is, admittedly, earned. Over four decades, ... Read More
Nairobi, April 9 -- If you sit outside on the terrace after sunset, you will hear the choir of frogs. It is relentless at first, almost intrusive, then it settles into you, becomes background music, p... Read More
Nairobi, March 5 -- He rocks up for the meeting quietly and on time. One dark car, one light bodyguard, a driver. He is dark himself. When he emerges from his car - tall, starched in an immaculate sui... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 19 -- Caroline Mutuku was the top girl in the country in 2006's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. For a brief moment, she was everywhere - TV, newspapers, the works.... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 12 -- My daughter turned 18. We took her to the rotating restaurant at Movenpick for dinner-part metaphor, part celebration. Eighteen is movement. Turning. Ascending. She wore a long sil... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 5 -- The truth is, scores of us will get cancer. And scores of us won't. Some of us who get cancer will die. Others will survive. However, the ones who survive will eventually die too. S... Read More