MUSINGS: Brokeness can be very painful

The other day I was listening to youth panel discuss the institution of marriage on a Kenyan TV. It was amusing to hear how they perceive it and all varied misconceptions they had. One particular young woman painted marriage and indeed, all relationships no-go zones. 

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Cyriel Dessers, who finished the Dutch Eredivisie season as joint top scorer, says missing out on his Nigeria debut because of the Covid-19 crisis 'was painful'.

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>I have been reading several books and articles and even then, I still cannot comprehend the gains of fighting over a dead person’s riches, but that was not until I was affected.

The hash tag #WhatWouldMagufuliDo has been trending on Twitter this past week. The new Tanzanian President, John Pombe Magufuli, has hit the ground running and made some changes, some of which have been to curb expenditure.

>I am sitting in this dala dala which just won’t move because of the jam.  Looking through the window, my eyes are greeted by a petty trader with boiled groundnuts in her hand which she stretched out to me.

His age mates say that the fellow never went beyond Standard Four. But that does not seem to bother Juma who on a number of occasions has managed to keep even the famous Dr Maneno, the most educated member of the Kijiwe quiet.