roadside streams

Photo credit: Janko Ferlic- Unspash Times have changed. I might not have the true statistics but I believe over sixty percent of the youth today cannot construct a full sentence in their mother tongue. The very same thing can be said about Swahili, with English being the most common language spoken today. While many people are taking their time to paint this as a crisis, they do not pause to see that they are flogging a dead horse. Time is too far removed, and we are moving from a Luo and a Maasai man to more of a Kenyan, an African, and an International citizen. Even amongst those who speak their mother tongue, how many adhere a hundred percent to their society’s cultural norms? How many of them can call themselves a pure Luhya or a pure Kikuyu? Boys are turning into men in hospitals, the pain of manhood being blurred by injections, and they are fed with bland and tasteless knowledge that has no practical or moral grounds in our current society. Men and women are intermarryi...

Life is made up of blocks, a thin line separating one block from another. No matter how old one is, the inner child is and always will be a part of them. So here are some of the blocks that I believe everyone can relate with. 17-19 years- the all-knowing stage Photo by Scott Webb- Unsplash You are fresh out of high school, or at least teetering towards the edge of the most torturous period in the history of your existence. At this point, you have a boyfriend or girlfriend stashed away somewhere, and you can swear by Apollo that you will get married to each other. Once you say ‘I love you’ however, you realize that it is all you have to offer. You still cling on to that good old feeling until you are out of high school and you realize that your boyfriend or girlfriend was the ugliest person you had ever seen. When you were in love with them, it was paradise, but growing up has given you alternatives. Now your mother is mad because she saw you with Kelvin, and...