Category: african

Winter is here.


Grown ups could take a leaf out of student’s books; they have made their feelings known about the proposed rise in tuition fees. Every single Londoner has come to expect poor service from their council in winter, rather than pressuring them to use the money they collect in taxes to make life better.

Never too old to learn


Kimani N’gang’a Maruge made became the world’s oldest student in 2003. Great grandfather Kimani was a farmer in Western Kenya who inadvertently led the way in the fight for universal free education in that country. Kimani was given a belated chance to go to school in 2003 after Kenya abolished primary school fees. In 2005,…… Continue reading Never too old to learn

November brings a change


I’ve wrestled with the idea that most of these posts are somehow unfinished, incomplete in some way. There is an internal struggle about how to fix this; I like observing people and trying to record them in a few minutes as much as I like making people up in my head and really trying to…… Continue reading November brings a change

Reader


It seems like print is on the verge of extinction,in favour of profits and technology. It’s a shocking vision; perhaps we won’t see new books printed, only ‘pdf-ed’ or whatever other platform takes hold of us.  But while there are pages in a book and words to capture the imagination, let’s make merry and pray…… Continue reading Reader