SHANK TASH

                        Poverty, a common term in literature and a cup nobody wish to drink from and state most people have been in to each having a story of pain, laboring day and night just to make ends meet others ending up on the streets as beggars. Flooding, drought, war, diseases being some of the major disasters affecting the African continent, the rich particularly the politicians find it favorable to quench their political thirst by playing around with the psychology of the affected by feeding them with promises that they never fulfill. Amid the rise of Covid-19 cases in Africa, particularly in Kenya the politicians have developed a new political tactic, donating to the less fortunate with their pictures, logos or stickers on foodstuffs, sanitizers and the various commodities they donate. For some the massive logos, stickers and pictures feel less of publicity to them. They have taken it a notch higher, the bes...

A calamity, misfortune, disaster are the unthinkable scenarios that occur in one way or the other despite being too cautious. A cup that is sore to sip on, too hot to handle, too dark that there seems no light shedding and no loop to hide. Despite the pain and sorrow brought about by these mishaps the lucky few experience them as a blessing, a turning point to their lives and the boat sails through the tides to the island of success the sorrows being a reminder of how things were. Poverty, the mark between the haves and the have not was a cup James Mbugua popularly known for his funny and touching, “mathwiti, makeki” anthem  is one of the few who have risen to the high notch of luck. His humor and sad narration of his experience after being thrown out of a birthday party for being dirty captured the attention of many and became a trending slang all over the social media which saw him secure the brand ambassador title at valentines house of cake and a sponsorship in his educatio...

        Having a place you can call home and people surrounding you in the name of a family is mostly a normal thing to most people. When the family turns chaotic and cannot take it anymore, the highest percentage think of running to the streets in search of another family that can accommodate them and appreciate the least contribution and the few chances of happiness. As the coronavirus pandemic struck the country, most people diverted their attention and finances to their families and locking themselves in their houses as a way of preventing themselves from contracting the killer infection. While others lock themselves hoarding foodstuffs for their families, another set of family, the street families is still out in the cold facing the pandemic blindly and probably with empty stomachs with nobody coming to their aid during this dark error of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo:kenyachildrenofhope.org The law being a blade that cuts on both edges, these famili...