Yaay! I am achieving one of my New Year Resolutions – Reading. Last month started late and I promised myself to read two books, I finished ...
Posts by Frankline Mwenda Kibuacha
Bad Debt Chronicles: Musa
Everybody has encountered one, or many. Those people who, giving them a debt, under any circumstance, is like throwing your money into a pit ...
Taking a Cold Shower like a Ninja
Last week, Njaanuary sent me two messages, just a reminder that it exists. One, cooking gas went kaput, without warning as it always does- two ...
Miathene Mono – My First Day in High School
I have seen a few monos in the streets this week. You can tell a mono from a mile away, you can smell even a mono. You can see it in the clothes, ...
Things 2016 Taught Me
I can’t believe 2016 was the same 12 month-long year as every other one, it felt much much shorter. What happened to the good old days when ...
Get a Life! Live like you live for Social Media
We all know that one person who’s always sad about something, or angry at someone. Roll your mind…do you see someone? Sad Facebook ...
I Don’t Respect Women
And for this headline, the world will order for my stoning. The feminists will rise up and castigate me for saying the unthinkable. “How ...
Chronicles of my Village, Gitura 2
Due to public demand, let’s continue from where we left. About the great city of Gitura. Well, it’s a village, but there is a Pastor ...
Chronicles of my Village, Gitura
The other day I was told of a women group on Facebook rivalling Kilimani Mums… it’s called Vuteni Stool. When a woman says, ...
Hey, can we fight?
One day, my girlfriend (now ex) got into a fight with me because I didn’t fight her. Close your mouth… I also get girlfriends, I have ...
Boys and Dogs
It’s Sunday morning. It’s been a week since you had your last bath. Your legs are the real definition of mpararo – complete ...
If you are Circumcised
“Kama umetahiriwa nitusi tena.” I was in my village last week. And I took a walk around the village one fine evening inspecting ...
Be like my Great Great Grandfather, Switch off WhatsApp!
My great great grandfather’s name was Thamunyari. Don’t beat your head over the name because you have never heard it. It is extinct. He is the ...
Take that selfie!
I saw her every day, apart from Sundays, for two months. She came every morning, washed my utensils (how I hate that thing), washed the floor, ...
Random Memories 4: Slippery Nipples and a Blow Job
There is a common saying among my crew, “We belong to the clan of pigs. We eat anything.” Growing up, I have eaten anything I have ...
Random Memories 3: The Devil Did It
When I told you I was already a sexpert by Class 2, I know you said to yourself “this is one of those hopelessly spoilt brats.” No. I ...
Random Memories 2: The Sexpert
I was telling you the other day about my life with my grandparents. With the worms gone and a contract for the supply of mandazi signed with the ...
Random Memories 1: When I was a Soil Eating Beggar
Let’s start from the beginning. To as far as I can remember – when I was a beggar. Literally. I am my parents’ first born.We ...
Sad Letter From Sister: Mother Misses You
When is the last time you spoke to your mother? The graceful lady that brought you forth, and brought you up? Does she know what’s ...
Invest in Your Woman!
The past few weeks have been quite fast for me. Long nights, hard work (which I enjoy a lot, by the way), hours facing a screen of sorts and, ...
Hello – The Nonsense Cover
Hello Niaje How have you been? You liked 11 photos on my Instagram yesterday, Did you stop because my 12th pic is a #WCW? That made me think ...
Have You Seen This Idiot?
I hate Whatsapp! Let me rephrase that. I dislike some aspects of Whatsapp. Like the endless viral messages you receive from 69 people and in 13 ...
Goodbye 2015, that was a Rollercoaster!
How years move! Just the other day, we were in 2014….kufumba na kufumbua, I have a 2016 diary. Is it only me or are years running faster ...
THAT Year After High School
KCSE is over! I had forgotten about KCSE, it’s existence, and importance till this year. My brother, who has had a very difficult high ...
A Kenyan Man Goes to Buy Condoms
So the girl you have been eyeing for ages has finally accepted a sleepover and you have a feeling that this will be a good night. You had praised ...
Fat or Thin, you are Beautiful!
A girl friend of mine inboxes me on Facebook, “Frank, imagine someone called me fat today”. I ask her, “Who? Njoki ...
Norah: My Flame!
We all have those contacts in the phone that are just that-contacts! Numbers and emails we have no idea where they came from. Or, is it only me? ...
To My Teachers and all Teachers: I Love You!
I am who I am largely because of my teachers. I am even writing this blog, in part, because I don’t want to let my teachers down. They all ...
My Wife and I: I Will be a Perfect Husband
The other day, I I told you I am looking for a wife. I told you, candidly, what I am looking for in my wife. That turned out to be one of the ...
I am Looking for a Wife!
Have you slept hungry, not because you don’t have food in the house, but because cooking sucks, especially when you know you will eat it ...
Baite Inside! Yes, I am a Meru!
A few weeks ago, I was lazily scrolling my Facebook when I saw a beauty. Some of you will call me a fisi, but males are supposed to ...
Fare thee well, Mfa.
Two children, A and B are playing in ashes. You know, the game of smearing ash on each other’s face to make “Kamuithia”. Child ...
Nairobi Initiation 6: I Have Been Conned, and Mugged.
I am walking home from college. Remember, I am doing CPA at Vision and I live in Plot 10, Kirinyaga Road. Just past Globe Cinema, this guy meekly ...
Nairobi Initiation 5: Plot 10, the Sin City.
Have you ever lived in a remote control house? These are the houses, err, cubicles where a 6 by 3 ft bed fills the room. You can touch all four ...
Nairobi Initiation 4: “We Ate Bread With Sirua!”
If you are reading this,you must have read part 1-3. Thank you for sticking with me. This is a true story and I have evoked nostalgia in some of ...
The Nairobi Initiation 3: “I Swear I Didn’t Do It. Blame the Cat”
So I came to Nairobi… And did all manner of things, including walking all the way to Rongai and meeting my high school sweetheart, Makena. ...
The Nairobi Initiation 2: “I Walked to Rongai!”
I was telling you the other day of some villager’s(aka yours truly) ‘soft’ landing in the largest metropolis in Eastern ...
The Nairobi Initiation 1: “I Will Be Your Host Tonight!”
The year is 2008. It is first of July and I am at the bus office bidding my mum goodbye. I am going to the big city alone for the first time,for ...
Throwback: 1983’s Laptop
We were reminiscing about phones the other day with my friends. How mobile phones were huge just a few years ago, then started going smaller and ...
Blame these politicians for the terror
Bad things are happening to my country. …very bad things, of serious insecurity types. Kenya has been known as the island of peace and ...
A-Z: 26 Tips For Building Powerful Personal Brand Online
Everyone has a personal brand. Do you know what yours conveys to potential employers? When your name is Googled, what comes up? If you haven’t ...
10 Corporate Social Media Mistakes
You are likely well aware of how powerful social media channels have become for Corporates and Brands. When used correctly and mistake-free, you ...
KIDS AND THEIR CLASS ANSWERS
I adore babies, I really do. So, when my times comes, I will have a dozen. I dislike viral forwarded messages on email, text, WhatsApp and ...
50 Life Lessons: Be a Better You!
We should always work to be better people. We have the tools, and they shouldn’t be wasted. How you decide to become a better person is up to ...
40 Entrepreneurship Lessons From World’s Billionaires
Here is a collection of quotes from the World’s biggest entrepreneurs-Billionaires. Valuable advice for start ups: ...
MCashBook: The Ultimate M-Pesa Application.
In a world of hundreds of Thousands of Android applications, I have ‘discovered’ an Application that is actually relevant … ...
Witty & Intelligent HR Questions & Answers
Witty…funny…just as I like them. Had to share: Here are some of the typical HR questions asked to find out if the candidates have ...
Pledge to Plant a Tree – Twestival Nairobi 2013.
Warren Buffet once said : Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Let’s face it-The ...
7 Tips for Successful Business Social Media.
Last week, I commemorated (not really, just nominally) my year in Corporate Social Media. I now feel like a guru! I believe I now know a thing or ...
365 Ways of Becoming a Millionaire (Without being born one)
Some time ago, I used to attend one of those highly successful evangelical churches in Nairobi. One day, the Pastor gave an example of how he had ...