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If you only do something because you have time, you are wasting your time

By Gabriel Dinda I have met a number of people who tell me that when “they get time” they will write. I have also met so many other people who insist that when “they get time; they will pray”. Every time I hear such a response, I conclude only one thing, they don’t value what

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An Easy Way to Navigate Through Life: a Reading of Gabriel Dinda’s ‘Questions of My Youth.’

By Wafula P’Khisa In this 128-page book, Gabriel Dinda offers us a comprehensive, philosophical and practical guide for navigating through the labyrinth of life. He achieves this by dissecting, analyzing, questioning, critiquing, dramatizing and discussing different aspects of life and human institutions such as marriage, work, death, spirituality and God, technology, fashion and lifestyle, family

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What is that one thing that can’t be stolen from you?

By Gabriel Dinda John has lived in a fairly safe neighborhood in Uthiru for three years. Owing to his social nature, he is almost familiar with everyone in his neighborhood. He invites friends to his house occasionally to enjoy the company of each other. John hails from Vihiga, from a family that struggles to put

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#Day5: Rotten English.

By Wr. Dismas Okombo The first assignment Edith gave us was to translate a passage in English to our mother tongue. We hunched over our notepads; some with mild hesitations, some with bold enthusiasm. After about fifteen minutes of searching for approximate words, each read their translations. Banyankole, Kinyarwanda, Tumbuka, Luo, Swahili, and Kamba. “How

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