CANDID TALK: ‘Obeying’ my throat almost got me killed by ‘ghosts’

In all my miserable life, diligent obedience to my throat to get it sloshed with real beer has many a time caused me serious grief. Deep love for all types of drinkables can perhaps explain why I have physical and emotional scars. As a result, I do most stupid things such as taking shortcuts through graveyards to avoid meeting people I owe money, even in devil hours of the night. I am willing to risk my throat being gripped by cold hands of a zombie straight from hell than bump onto my...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Aug

CANDID TALK :Promise that never was

The Uswaz MP Hon Dr Tajiri Tumbo Kubwa (his doctorate is questionable) is a very clever man especially as we approach general elections. His ingenuity is evident in Uswaz in the way he organizes the young and the old in some sorts of groupings – football teams, women groups and similar units that ensures as many people as possible are, like cows, are herded together to deliver votes when the time comes.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Oct

CANDID TALK :The village matador lucky to be alive

Wonders never cease! The 11th wonder of the world is this game practiced in Spain, Portugal and Mexico,whereby a very, very angry bull drunk on devil-knows-what bulls raring to kill someone are unleashed in narrow streets to charge at eager people.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Oct

CANDID TALK : We’re definitely sacking MP Tajiri Tumbo Kubwa

Nothing is more horrifying than a Mirembe madhouse candidate who can write a column like the one you are now reading. I can assure you that I feel madder than yesterday as the General Election approaches.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Sep

CANDID TALK: We’re having a blissful time in Katerero, feeling ‘good’

>My one-and-only Bisho Ntongo and I are having a ‘good’  time in Katerero on the shores of Lake Victoria. Her father had demanded that I show my ugly face lest he calls back Bisho over unpaid dowry balance. Everything is so changed here that I am considering relocating here for good. Pull out a few msimbazis (Sh10,000 banknotes) and the entire village will worship you.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Feb

CANDID TALK:Valentine Day’s memories reloaded and Jenny…

The guy who came up with the Valentine’s Day idea should die. It is the day when men and women clad in red and brandishing red roses make asses out of themselves. If he were living today, I would recommend that he be hanged at a public place for it. I would do this because even a “professional” wife beater like Hussein the Uswaz wag or Voicemail Kemilembe, the woman known to have an eye for anything in a trouser, pretend to be to be lovers for life – a one day show....

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Sep

CANDID TALK : Day my bladders cost me a cool Sh10,000

Sometimes, I think that most Uswaz men ought to earn esteemed tittle minister for “Wetlands and Irrigation”. This is because of our penchant for playing God by raining on anything within our sight. If the “Passport Size Latrines” happen to be far away, and our bladders threaten to do balloon-bursts, we don’t shy from wetting anything in our sight; walls, trees, protected parks and so forth.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Patient sings through throat surgery

Guinean singer Alama Kante sings through surgery to remove a tumour to prevent surgeons damaging her vocal cords.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Letter from Africa: Haunted by ghosts

Counting the cost of Africa's 'haunted' civil services

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Nov

Boko Haram ghosts haunt ‘liberated’ areas

Life seems to be returning to normal in this northern Nigerian town a year after the army expelled the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram -- shops bustle with customers and vendors hawk their wares in the pot-holed streets.

 

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