Archive for the ‘MATATHIA OF MOMBASA’ Category
CHEMICALLY INDUCED LITERATURE
1450hrs, Tuesday, June 24th.
Somewhere on the Southern Mainland
Finally, a cold beer. It is not as cold as I like it, though; not cold enough that, as we say in Nairobi, it is ’sweating’. When a beer is ’sweating’, lines of water form on the bottle and cascade down it the moment you pull it out of the fridge. But most importantly, the label, when you pull at it, doesn’t tear but peels off with such ease it brings succour to the sexually deprived and closure to the anally retentive. I am not quite sure which of those it is that I am, but what I know is that a beer at that temperature sure does work miracles for me.
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Made on the Internet
As a writer, I cut my teeth on the internet a space where as far as writing goes, the dabbler meets the hobbyist and the MFA backed craftsmanship meets raw talent. The internet: a veritable patch pourri of style and form; a babel of trained and untrained voices; a cacophony of the phony know-it-alls outshouting of the too-smart-for-TV pundits; the only place in the wide world where genius shares both a podium and accolades with mediocrity.
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Scribbling at the museum
The eventful early months this year, got me thinking a lot about the history and state of the Kenyan nation. In moments of cynicism, and they have been a dime a dozen, I have even argued that a nation called Kenya has existed only in name and never in the shared ideals of its people. At one point, in my weekly online column at KenyaImagine, I wrote:
“Let there be Kenya,” said Queen Victoria. And there was Kenya.
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