Wonders of Wanda

Nostalgia can make us or break us. Forget the part about breaking us for a minute and read this one that has made me what I am today. My right hand never leaves my cheek whenever I painfully remember my sweet past experiences. Today, I remembered those sweet childhood games and plays and wondered why these days the kids we sire do not possess such kind of creativity.  One wonders whether they even know what "mkebe" and "chapata" are. One also wonders whether they know what "kuruka uzi" means. Besides, when asked to play "kumuchurusia" and "kumutecha"(these were the games we played with balls made of polythene bags and some strings around them), will they even know where to start from? In those days, girls would go to the posho mill and play "kati" for four hours. Only the approach of dusk would remind them that it was time to go home. They would fold their skirts and tuck them in on one side. This was meant to make them f...

Letters Letters are among the oldest forms of communication ever documented. They always involve the sender and the recipient, with the former having a message to pass to the later. Modern-day letters are categorized into formal and informal letters depending on the type of message to be communicated and the relationship between the sender and the recipient.                                        Formal letters/Business letters These are letters that are used by individuals and organizations to pass official information. There are many types of formal letters. These include: ·          Application letters ·          Letters of apology ·          Letters of inquiry · ...

All years with an "8" at the end have been so good to me. You should not forget that in such a year, I uttered my first word and made my first step. It should also be remembered that in such a year, I watched my first world cup, the greatest world cup ever. I still remember vividly how one man by the name Roberto Baggio and a teammate by the name Christian Vieri attacked like ants. They were, however, meted with attacks in the same vigour from Ivan Zamorano and Marcelo Salas-I remember as if it were yesterday. who would dare forget those Roberto Carlos' "banana" free kicks? Some misfortunes though: Onyiso, our best goalkeeper then, kukula nyobo at the hands of Sunday Oliseh and co., and my "Samba Boys" losing out to a team made of seven Bukusus and a few white men and the Bomb Blast in Nairobi. I cannot leave Lukhome Primary School out of this. A ten-year-old boy bred in the dirty ghettos of Nairobi is travelling back home to his peop...

Many people have so many good plans that can make them rich within  a short period of time but often, financing them is the problem. Most banks and financial institutions do not give loans to anybody. For somebody to qualify for a loan from them, there are often some prerequisite requirements he/she must satisfy first. Some, if not all, of these institutions require that somebody seeks a job or shows evidence of owning a stable business first-money is given to that who already has it. Here are some three easy steps that can help individuals who do not satisfy these requirements get access to loans. The first thing one can do to get access to a loan is belonging to a chama . Almost all the banks in Kenya have developed special savings accounts for members of chamas . When ten members come together, for example, they pool their resources, hence, the amounts they save will be more than what one person is capable of saving. If everybody contributes ksh 1000 per month, it means the gr...

What to do the bible says, too much sleep breeds poverty so, i stay awake up to 1 am doing nothing in paticular and hope to get rich by the next morning. but i wake up poorer and wearier this is when i discover that it is not about staying up late but staying up late doing something constructive

An Encounter With Real Nairobians(PART one) by Wanda Wasike The big city was busy as usual. People clad in suits and others in jeans and T-shirts walked faster than I had ever seen human beings walk. The streets were filled with all sorts of people walking in all directions; once in a while colliding like the atoms Mr. Kamau used to tell me about during his physics classes. Loud noises could be heard from as far as Uhuru Park . The hooting of matatus and yelling of touts only worsened the situation. You could only struggle to hear a thing from your friend. This was a rush to catch up with the njivas and the chicks they called chicken before better mouths could smash them all. I always wondered why everybody had to eat chipo na kuku . Along Moi Avenue stood stoutly a big building with bold inscriptions that read "Universal Group of Colleges." On the ground floor were many shops that dealt in phones and accessories, and people were all over the place; each with his/her reas...

They say we are witches And what about Faust? They say we kill haphazardly, but what about nuclear wars? They say we are primitive, but is homosexuality civilization? They say we are barbaric, but what about colonialism? They criminalize our culture, but look at theirs' divorce, pornography; name them. Did we even have names for them? We are ok, as we are.