Lunch With The Desert Goddess
The first time I met Elema Nyar Marsabit, she was wearing a jungle green bandage dress. The way she wore that dress is something you will never forget for eternity. It was a hot Saturday afternoon, and I was delivering my novel that she had bought to her. Meeting point: Kenya Cinema. When meeting a […]
Make Scent: The Art of Buying a Good Cologne
The old adage goes something like, ‘manners maketh man’. While it makes sense, the right way to put it is, ‘good scents maketh man’. Good scents make sense. Let’s face it, men do not have it easy. Whether it is shopping for shoes, clothes, or even finding a significant other we face the most […]
Jack, The Gentleman: To be Drunk with Reverence and Respect
It’s around 4 a.m. and sleep has deserted me. Sleep is such a cruel lover. Sometimes she holds you tight, never wanting to let you go. And other times, she turns the cold shoulder disappearing like a myth in the middle of the night. I am yet to meet a person that has been able […]
How Your Car Defines You
When you pump out loud music or sensibly rated music, you get attention. Everyone will notice you. As a guy that is sort of an achievement. It raises your social class, and you feel pretty good about it. But here is where the line is drawn, the car. Men for some reason need to have […]
The Dating Sin
Let’s get right into it. The dating scene has become messy. The number of single and divorced men is as high as our national external debt. What is going on here? Relationships don’t last long as they used to. Kenyan women have become harder and harder to chase. It is usually rosy on the first […]
Lunching in the Nairobi CBD: How CJs Changed the Game
#ManAboutTown One of the weirdest, if inexplicable, culinary mysteries in Kenya is why we don’t eat plantain as a common starch. I first tasted plantain at Dacha, the hotel at the Namanga Border, on the Tanzanian side, when I was well into my mid-30s. Nothing in life will ever prepare you for the delicious decadence […]
25 Ways You Can Be Safe as Insecurity Rises In Nairobi
Nothing will ever keep you fully safe but adopting certain habits greatly minimizes exposure to potential harm. Kwanza now that the economy is tanking, and insecurity rises. NB. This isn’t a call to fear or paranoia just good old sense and adjustment. Personal safety works in concentric circles with you at the centre working outwards. […]
An Idiot’s Guide to Investing in Crypto
By now, you must have heard, or you know a thing or two about the cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. But then, what is a cryptocurrency, or simply, ‘crypto’? Crypto is any decentralized, digital currency based on cryptography. Those three terms are crucial to understanding the thousands of types of crypto traded today. Decentralized means that cryptocurrency […]
Blacky’z Hurlingham- There is Such a Thing as Autoism-Car Owners Get Preferential Treatment
It’s one of those places that double up as a bar and a car wash, so you’re never too sure if these are revelers or car owners instinctively craning their necks to check if Miko is properly buffing the rear door. The place is BLACKY’Z, right smack in the middle of Lagos and Juba. If […]
MEN & MONEY:10 Financial Mistakes That Millennial Men Make
We live in an era of financial errors. And the errors have ruined so many men, who with a bit of discipline, patience, and vision, would have avoided their awful fate. Men must be leaders at all levels of their lives. They must take full responsibility for any or all failures in their families and […]