The Kenyan Nomad

I’ll freely admit that I’m highly sceptical of programmes that target the ‘boy child’ or young men in a world that is still structurally sta...

If you asked someone who knows me well to describe me, chances are that somewhere in the first paragraph there’d be a reference to my love o...

 A few weeks ago, I sat down (virtually) with Semerian Sankori , founder of Patinaai Osim. It was the end of the day and I was suffering fro...

I remember walking in and looking around as my stomach slowly sank. The paint was peeling, the floorboards faded. The place was considerably...

  At the most basic level, humans want and need connection. And yet, when I’m lonely, I’m ashamed of expressing that need —a shame that does...

  My amazing sister,  Ranjeeta Walia , turned 42 yesterday. As a joke, I asked her for 42 lessons she'd learnt along the way. As soon as...

Noise.  It was there when I first emerged into the world. It's always there, I'm accustomed to it--to the point that when it's q...

                                   Quintessentially Kenyan 21 September 2013. A dark day in Kenya's history but one that also brought a ...

Roll your eyes at this title all you want, but I am absolutely giddy with glee at being able to use a click-baity headline that’s truthful! ...

  I first read Daniel Goleman’s ‘Social Intelligence’ in December 2015, on a year-end trip with my parents. I enjoyed it then, and have inte...

  If you’re here, I’ll assume you’re already aware that 2020 has been quite a shit-show. It seems as though every day, one wakes up to crazi...

Image by enriquelopezgarre from Pixabay This post has been building up in my mind for some time, and I finally felt like I was in the...

Photo by Simon Wilkes on Unsplash Expounding on my last article, where I talked about optimising for being at my best energy, and some ...

Over the past year and a bit, I've had a bit of a realisation around what's important to prioritise. This has been a lesson that...