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Trust in times of chaos 8 Jun 2010 | 09:31 pm
"Chaos is what happens when you're ready for a big change! Let the Universe do its work and #Trust" — tweeted by The Daily Love
Alien’s Burden 14 Feb 2010 | 01:25 am
For about the past 10 years of my life, I have lived outside my homeland as a categorical foreigner. This period has coincided with what I believe are considered my formative years. I wonder what has ...
Inroads to my Self, courtesy of art (and vice-versa) 3 Jan 2010 | 10:48 am
As a new year and decade begins, I can’t help but take this abstract transition as an opportunity to commit to making some tangible changes in my life. I won’t label these commitments as resolutions b...
Defining Afri-love 8 Sep 2009 | 12:37 am
Africa is in my veins … in my thoughts and in my actions. I don’t know how love for a continent is made. How the colours and rhythms from one far-off coast can resonate as loudly on the opposite side....
The art of reality 3 Sep 2009 | 09:21 pm
Visiting the Walking in my Mind exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre renewed for me a lot of thoughts around the act of artistic creation and the psyche. Who is it for? Just as they say “write wha...
For the love of a city 27 Aug 2009 | 08:00 pm
I have truly fallen in love with all the cities I've lived in. Nairobi, New York, London. They have all had a distinct energy and personality that has resonated with me. Nairobi: home, Africa, city u...
Birthday vows and congruent character 8 Aug 2009 | 04:13 am
Around my last birthday, I made a vow to myself that, by the time I turned 27, I would be in a different place. A mental space different to the stressful, overly time- and energy-consuming one in whic...
Kitchen Party Induction 22 Jun 2009 | 08:17 am
No reference to tupperware parties here. Yesterday I attended my first “kitchen party”. A Tanzanian tradition, its closest Western equivalent is the bridal shower but, this comparison is nowhere near ...
The body betrays the truth 27 Apr 2009 | 02:04 am
Last week I learned something very scary – I actually have a physical limit as to how busy I can be. People have often commented, in various degrees of wonder, at how many things I’m involved in, how ...
Work and the democratisation of art 10 Apr 2009 | 09:02 pm
Connecting art, class, work and happiness (image courtesy of Indigo Arts Gallery) "I cannot ever forget, nor should I, that I come from a blue collar, in fact in some cases no collar, background. By...
