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Any Matatu driver will drop you at Tassia road if you say you want to stop at Tassia. From the beginning, the...
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Source Dorm 10 is no more. It has been razed to the ground. To be honest, I feel no emotion. Life has...
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I recently did an interview with Akwaeke Emezi, who is an Igbo/Tamil writer and filmmaker based in liminal spaces. These interview was...
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Image Source Of all the flowers my mother planted, I loved the pink cosmos the best. They would fully bloom in April,...
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The constellation Aquilae was very important to my great-great-great grandfather Rumbas, an astrologer and a diviner. There are four major stars in...
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My great-grandmother, Kabon, who passed on in 1953, once walked up the Kerio valley all the way to Kakamega with the women...
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A long while back, 1919 to be specific, Scots and Boers had settled in Uasin Gishu and cleared the last lion pride...
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If I should tell you this story, then I should begin with hands, rough hands on my shoulders, and the smell of...
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I cannot remember her name. Her face is but a shadow by now. She was the tallest in class though, taller than...
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One remarkable difference between Nairobi and Iten is the absence of ghosts. There were ghosts everywhere in Iten, though most of them...
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Kabon had four children. The eldest was Kimoi my grand-mother who got married in Sergoit. In 1926, she gave birth to her...
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In the 19th century, the Keiyo and Marakwet lived in the cliffs of the second Rift Valley escarpment, tending over irrigation furrows...
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About me
Hello, my name is Kiprop Kimutai. I am a writer and an editor with Jalada Africa. My fiction has been published by Kwani? Trust, Jalada, Painted Bride Quarterly, No Tokens, Acre Books, Caine Prize and Farafina. I am currently working on my debut novel, The Bantam Chicken Project.