Take a trip into my mind
Do you know the feeling that comes with crossing over a decade? Let me tell you about it; when you've just hit 20 and puberty is waning like the embers of a dying fire, you'll think that the world is your oyster. Your body is still energetic enough to handle the charged nights out with [...]
We only call our friends if we need something from them, if they have successful business ventures, we want to partner with them. When they are buying drinks at the club, we want to feel the burn of whiskey on our tongues. And when shit hits the fan? Our silence is conspicuous. It's a cold world, isn't it?
...when the people who have devoted their lives to entertain, inform and keep us alive eventually end up lying helplessly like spent like cartridges of a revolution, someone needs to lift them up the same way they lifted our spirits when we were low and warm their hearts the same way they warmed ours with their craft. When the curtains close in on them and they leave the stage, who will remember them?
I can't help but notice the apparent gloom that's found a home on many of our faces as we brush past each other in these streets of Nairobi on our way to tend to the businesses which put food on our tables every night. Often, we're preoccupied with worries about the past and the future, [...]
The question many artists are compelled to ask themselves at one point in their artistic careers is; what can I do to make my art more appealing to my fans? This question is usually an afterthought to another question every artist who feels they aren't achieving the romanticized success we all believe artists who are [...]
