Laugh. Laugh again. That’s exercise. Because, as always, Gitura stories are fun. If you read this blog, you know my village, Gitura. If you ...
Posts by Frankline Mwenda Kibuacha
RECAP 2020 – it wasn’t a bad year, after all
2020, a year we will all remember, and tell tales about forever. The year when we got locked at home like zero grazed cattle. When normal human ...
A long, happy family ride: The Coast Edition
When we were fighting the coronavirus ravaging our bodies back in July, we said (it’s us, ladies and gentlemen), things have to change to ...
Coronavirus Chronicles: Can you feel the symptoms too?
Are you working from home? How is it going for you? My timelines show bored and lonely people. Others are drained by kids and spouses and others ...
Fatherhood Chronicles: Calla the Toddler
Been a while since I told you about Calla. It’s been a while since I told you anything. Such has life been, busy. I think busyness comes ...
30 years
December 23, 1989 is the most important day in my life. It is the day that bore this life, and generation, into existence. It is the day that ...
Real Men’s Conference
The other day, I attended a workshop for Real Men. That’s right, I was browsing the internet and came across an upcoming event for real ...
Gitura Chronicles Gitura 3 – Circumcision and Kabaine
Living in towns is depressing. You wake up at the same time in the morning, wear plain boring clothes, go to the same office or class, or job ...
Random Memories: Job Tarmacking was NOT a Joke
2011. I have just finished CPA, after years of struggle. If you know about CPA, you know it’s a struggle. And I’m not even a natural ...
Amerucan in America
On a certain night last month, I was playing hide and seek with Calla at JKIA to start the longest flight of my flying life. About 26 ...
Miraa Chronicles
I will tell you something we people of Maua don’t like hearing but is true. Miraa is a drug! That’s right and I’m saying it ...
Calla is 2!
Last Sunday, 19th May, we were braving the mud and cold of Limuru that I had started to somehow forget. Destination St. Anthony’s ...
What’s on your Mind?
The other day, I was taking Jeddy to hospital. Then, I also decided to have a small check up – mostly because it’s completely free in ...
Fatherhood Chronicles: Calla is All Grown Now
Children grow very fast. I mean, just the other day, we were struggling with holding and bathing Calla, because she was too small, too ...
Who Cursed my Farming Career?
I never wanted to be a farmer. I hated farming right from childhood despite my mother being an addicted farmer. Addicted to the level that only ...
GNLD, Forever Living and Other Stories
It’s many moons ago, and I am fresh in Nairobi (just after I had come into the city in search of education and proper initiation into the ...
Funniest Book I Read: The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish
If you have watched Girls Trip (yes, I have a feminine side), you know Tiffany Haddish. She was my favourite character in the movie, mostly ...
Addis Ababa I
There were many reasons why I was looking forward to my hastily prepared trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Let’s assume the beautiful women we ...
Fatherhood Chronicles 3: Meeting my Daughter for the First Time.
Where were we last time? Oh yes … I was crying myself to sleep when I heard the news that Calla, hear this, MY daughter had been born ...
Book I read: The Biography of Paulo Coelho – A Warrior’s Life
One fine morning, on my way to work, I found our estate watchman reading a huge book with a black cover and was curious. You see, I always found ...
Fatherhood Chronicles 2: Stubborn Calla is Born
Kids, when you see the little, cute babies, don’t think it’s an easy, cute thing. Giving birth is not your mother. 🙂 It’s a ...
Fatherhood Chronicles: Her name will be Calla.
On 19th May 2018, an event was going down at the Nairobi Children’s Home in Lower Kabete. There was food, games, lots of gifts, and cake. ...
Beating the Wife in the Name of the Lord.
Mary (not her real name) is a woman in a complicated situation. And she is so good an actor, you can’t tell what’s going on in her ...
Forget the Ps… It’s Time for the 4Cs of the Marketing Mix
Let’s talk about marketing a little… will we? When we went to school, we were taught about the 4 Ps of marketing: Product, Price, ...
You Quit Accounting to Spend your days on Facebook?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I was an accountant! That’s right, I was… Maybe I still have some accounting knowledge, but most of it ...
Job Interview
Like everyone who wasn’t born to big money, I have had my fair share of job interviews. I have attended a couple – though not as many ...
Talking to stones
Have you ever looked at stones and wondered if they communicate, if they have senses, if they have life in there? I mean, they can’t just ...
How I Became a Dating Pro.
I am demanding a Honorary Degree in dating. I have had so many dates, dating back many many years, that I want my place among the table of men. ...
My 2017 Report Card
How time flies. Just the other day, I was recapping 2016… and then just as I blinked, 2017 was gone and we were singing Feliz Navidad (or ...
The Night I Almost Became an Orphan
Last week. Tuesday 14th 2017. My dad had been complaining of a severe headache for a week. And it was getting worse by the day. He had been to ...
Love Story: When an Elderly Lady Truly Loves You
We met in very unconventional circumstances. While people nowadays meet on Social Media, we met on phone. Yes. She called the office line from ...
Nairobi Initiation 7: Fighting the Police
It’s a fine Sunday evening and I’m walking to Plot 10 from seeing my one of my hunnies at UoN Hall 5. We’ve been there since we ...
Celebrating the Death of “those people”
Last weekend was a dark weekend for our village and the surrounding villages. The dark cloud still hangs over us like a giant rock about to crash ...
Oh Shit… I love toilets!
Is there an award for the person who spends the most time in the toilet? I deserve that award – I’ve realized I spend insane amounts ...
A Man’s Guide to Being a Real Man
The other day I told you to Be A Man … but I did not tell you how. Today I will pass some wisdom over to you. Keep it in thine heart. HERE ...
An Angel Lives in Kibera
The night of December 31st, 2007, Kibera Deep inside Kibera Slums, an elderly lady sat alone in a huge, old brick, double roomed house. In Kibera ...
My 10 Badass Life Rules
Life is a journey… and to survive this journey, we all need some rules. Personal and universal life rules. Here are mine… that I ...
Am I a Writer? Naah!
I am a reader, that I know. And again, you cannot prove if I am a good reader or not. But writer? Bla blah blah. Let’s take it back ...
Medical May: Books I Read in May
In May, I decided to look for Medical books. Not those long, technically boring books with the difficult words that made me not join KMTC, but ...
Random Memories 6: My First Flight – Landing
Where did we leave it last time? Oh, I was getting high high in the sky on my very first flight. So, lets complete the flight and the landing, ...
A Letter to my Unborn Baby
Hello, baby. No matter how old you get, you will always be my baby. Wewe ni toto langu. And I will always be your father. I have seen a lot of ...
Random Memories 5: My First Flight
We had gotten ourselves a business trip to India, Julie and I, for an e-Commerce and Customer Loyalty conference… To travel, you need ...
Books I read in March (and the book that Changed Me)
The reading train continues! In March, I read 4 books (I am doing well, ain’t I?) One was kinda boring, even to my standards; the other was ...
Being Watch-ed
I got my very first watch a long long time ago. I think I was in Class 4 or 5. It was one of those fake Casios that went for like 25 Shillings ...
Yo! Yo! I am a Rapper.
I am a rapper. At heart, everywhere. And now, it’s time to roga you musically. How do I know that? That I am a super MCee, super lyric ...
When a Thika Prostitute Pins you to the Wall
I hate Thika! The first time I went to Thika was less than two years ago when Mfa passed on. I have since associated Thika with death and I only ...
Books I read in February
In January, I started my new journey of reading multiple books per month (btw, the picture above is of my growing third library). I did 2 ...
A Letter to the Women in my Life
Dear My Women, Being the International Women’s Day, I take this opportunity to appreciate you for being in my life. Being the strong ...
Be a Man, man!
Be a man and face your troubles. Actually, be a man and carry the burdens of the world. Be a man and sweat your ass out in the mjengo to feed ...
My Bad-ass Valentine’s Day Ideas
Last week, I was live on Radio Jambo, talking about Valentine’s Day and how to spend the least but make the best impression on ...