Auction Day for the Repossessed Boda
A proud boda rider tries to buy back his repossessed bike at auction, but the real debt is the story he made everyone carry for him.
Travel
Away from home, noticing harder.
The puddle in Bangsar
Bukit Bintang at night is a fever dream of neon lights, the smell of diesel and satay, and the constant hum of people who don't know where they are going but are determined to get there.
The geometry of Nairobi mornings
There is a geometry to Nairobi mornings that nobody talks about. The matatu routes form a web across the city.
Forty in Bali
Turning forty far from home. Still not brief.
Forty in Bali
Turn 40 far from home. Write about it. Still not brief.
First trip outside Kenya
Dar es Salaam. Write 40 pages in three days. Leaving home is the fastest way to understand it.
The matatu notebooks
Start filling notebooks on the Number 33. Every morning, every evening. The passengers become characters.