WANJURA: Why aspirants should not expect a penny from me

By Jeeh Wanjura,

To show he was digital or to cut on costs or perhaps for both reasons, he shared the invitation via a WhatsApp group specifically set up for the event...

WANJURAH: A Teacher’s journey into retirement and the long wait for pension

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I still remember Mr Mate’s final day in school because of the unusually long morning assembly and the endless prayers. His soon-to-be-former coll...

pensions , teachers , tsc

WANJURAH: How my atheist spirit was haunted by a ‘headless voice’

By Jeeh Wanjura,

The narrow street teeming with crowds milling in and out of its souvenir shops empties into an open square just outside the great cathedral.  Even o...

WANJURAH: Queers for Sunday Afternoon Company

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I accepted my flat-mate’s invitation to the event mainly as a test of my own tolerance levels and to while away the day. Like with many Kenyans, ...

Gay , homosexuality , queers , wanjurah

WANJURAH: Of fathers, daughters, missing mothers and sports

By Jeeh Wanjura,

The guy behind was screaming obscenities and cursing so much that the child seated next to me with his daddy began agitating to go home. I figured ...

fathers , mothers , parenting , Parents

WANJURAH: My free advice to Matiang’i: Praise loudly, blame softly

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I know the phrase has existed long before Fred Matiang’i popularised it in Kenya but I just can’t trace its origin on Google. That is because �...

arson , Matiang’i , schools , wanjurah

WANJURAH: Of Melania Trump lies and ice-cream for the royalty dog

By Jeeh Wanjura,

Two unrelated events, one in the UK and the other in the US, this past week have delivered eloquent examples of how the bad often outlives the good in...

WANJURAH: My experience at Turkey’s Kemal Ataturk Airport after the recent terror attack

By Jeeh Wanjura,

What really annoyed me was the fact that he was exceedingly polite even when apparently discriminating against me. Even with my cap lowered, I coul...

airport , Kemal Ataturk Airport , terror , terrorist , Turkey

WANJURAH: You think APs are rogue? Try the chief…

By Jeeh Wanjura,

Even then, I thought it took real courage for the young man to turn up at the Chief’s office as he did. Long before men blurred the gender lines ...

WANJURAH: Why teachers should welcome their latest CBA with TSC

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I doubt that developments in the education sector in the past week have endeared the teachers unions to their members. On the contrary, KNUT and KU...

CBA , KNUT , KUPPET , teachers , tsc

WANJURAH: Why Uhuru’s appointment of high school bully has stirred anger in me

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I may not have heard about him for over two decades but seeing his name on the list rattled my heart. My reaction was a mixture of surprise and ang...

appointments , bully , bullying , Miraa , Uhuru kenyatta

WANJURAH: Spare Kalonzo the Teargas: He’s cut for Bigger Things

By Jeeh Wanjura,

At a glance, the pictures of the helmets allegedly ordered by Wiper for anti-IEBC demos look like a timely and wise purchase. But a scrutiny of the...

IEBC protests , Kalonzo , teargas

WANJURAH: Priscilla Nyokabi’s journey to heaven and everywhere

By Joy Chelagat,

In her younger, activist days, Priscilla Nyokabi used to spot a curiously worded tee-shirt. “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere”. ...

Jeeh Wanjurah , Nyokabi , Priscilla Nyokabi , wanjurah

WANJURAH: A treasured cargo of grasshoppers and other not-so-nice stories of Africans at UK immigration

By Jeeh Wanjura,

He had caught my attention while we were boarding because I thought he was overdressed for an economy class flight from Doha to London. A charcoal ...

africans in the uk , Immigration

WANJURAH: Roving Eye Costs me Last Dance Chance

By Jeeh Wanjura,

 It took some persuasion to convince me that the farewell party was worth a whole seven pounds. For that amount, I could buy myself two whole “roa...

blogs , roving eye , wanjurah

WANJURAH: Best Avoided: Why I hate my date with the doctor

By Jeeh Wanjura,

The usual anxieties that plague me moments to a doctor’s visit overwhelmed me Wednesday afternoon.    I find sharing with someone, even a doctor...

WANJURAH: When Elections Are Not a Matter of Life and Death – A Lesson to Kenya from the UK

By Jeeh Wanjura,

 After what I hoped was a well-received presentation at the end of a difficult, anxiety-filled week, I had retreated to my flat hungry for a quick na...

Britain , british elections , elections , IEBC , UK

WANJURAH: The Raucous Nigerians have invaded Kenyan Diaspora parties, taken our girls

By Jeeh Wanjura,

I had to go back on my promise to never again attend those Kenyan get-together dinners out of honour for a special friend.   But that is really n...

WANJURAH: When football becomes a bad marriage to an old Englishman, thanks to an old Dutchman

By Jeeh Wanjura,

Being shortsighted, I thought the problem was that I was trying to read the details from a distance, so I moved to just beneath the display boards mou...

Britain , dutchamn , englishman , foorball

WANJURAH: A Manchester beggar’s queer way to show she has no breast milk for her baby

By Joy Chelagat,

I was musing at the irony of the Manchester cathedral being encircled by so many bars and so much evil when she suddenly appeared. It was around 7p...

breast milk , Jeeh Wanjura , Manchester