“If you expect the world to be fair to you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him” Anonymous. Life is not fair. That is something we get to learn even from a young age. Like for instance, why do the good die young? Does Tom Mboya, Martin Luther King Jnr or even F. Scot Fitzgerald come to mind anyone? Is that fair? Why didn’t the hand of fate intervene when the Grim Reaper turned up to carry out his duty? These and many others are questions…

I had a grand time in Dubai during the launch of Rainbows In My Clouds and then the “Meet And Listen” session at the Change Initiative where I got to sign copies of my autobiography, Rainbows in my Clouds, for the eager readers. The heat notwithstanding, meeting and interacting with like-minded people was an occasion to savor. But life is not without its fare share of ironies. Once back here in Nairobi, Kenya, the weather transitioned from the heat that characterizes the UAE to a teeth-chattering and biting cold that is the norm in these parts of the globe during…

Imperfection is beauty, insanity is genius and, it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than to be absolutely boring! Who the above sagacity of pure wisdom draped in profound poignancy is attributed to, I do not know. But, the maxim best reflects how my life has turned out until this moment. The world we reside in is one busting at the seams with different cultures. These cultures act as identification for different people that dot the earth. Due to the political borders we tend to confine ourselves in, the cultures are interpreted differently by different people, and so are words. How…