STORIES FROM MY HEART

Just last week, a friend and I got a thirsty throat and our next stop was the inevitable Kengeles Koinange, right next to our office at Ambank House, and once the Rum and tusker malt started flowing, we got talking; on the men seated around us, to relationships, commitment, flowers, or lack of on valentines day, commercial properties of love, when is love really love, or what is the cost of love these days? It can be in the thousands…or better still millions so, when he, the one right across, whose attention I got while wrapping my fingers suggestively around my 100% human hair from the UK, tells me he runs a dairy farm, I ask him if it’s the family business. You see, if it’s not, its love in the thousands, and if it is the family business, and he is the adored son of the man who practically owns that town, centre of the great rift, it is love in the millions, with probability of growing, maturing, if with tender loving care, to love in the billions. Another double rum is placed on th...

Intellect? the faculty to reason objectively(oxford) To think, to see ahead, objectively, cleverly Such a little word Yet so ignored,and we think we are...intellectual. Intellect? Is that what will save Kenya from a sunken hole where some of our African Brothers and sisters have sunk into for many years? Afraid to come out even in starlight yet we seem to enjoy, the smooth slide into darkness we left intellect at home to sleep on the queen size oak Lamu bed in the mansion we live in when we are happy Intellect? is that what it's called when i talk about the FTSE as if I was born in the bourse? If I rise above the politics and settle with hoping that politics and economy can be oh so very different? Am I intellectual? Or am i just optimistic? and when I do not know my trivia, but I follow the resilience of the Kenyan markets after poll violence? is that intellect Or I am just being foolish? When I know, what's to buy, and what's to sell Stocks and shares that build the world...