MUNENE A MUTWIRI

  NESH PENDRAGON After a long, cold and rainy stay at home school is finally here again. I take this chance to wish you all a safe journey back to Narok and to those who were still around please remember to go say hello to mummy before you resume school this coming semester. Let me remind us that we have come a long way as an institution but a lot more has to be done not just for us now but for posterity. The enemy still remains the administration. Suspension of students based on weak allegations. The Non-functioning state of SOMMU and the general poor management of student affairs by the management are still thorny issues. A lot of new challenges await us, the large number of students who will be on session to the ‘new’ mabati classes that might be used by some of us if not all. Most of us have already travelled to Narok; having to go check on either their missing marks, to sit for a supplementary exam or the special exams. As you sit your exams I want to wi...

PROFESSOR MARY WALINGO Maybe some will love to call you ‘mother’ others our ‘mother’, but for me am not interested in giving you funky motherly titles that l think you do not deserve. I prefer to address you with your official name or title, Professor Mary Walingo, The Vice Chancellor Maasai Mara University. You happen not to know me so I take this chance to introduce myself. I’m Munene A Mutwiri a communications student in third year. With due respect Madame Vice Chancellor; I’m compelled to convey my sincere disappointments with your leadership style through this open letter. Let me start by highlighting why you do not deserve the name ‘mother’ of the school. The majority of the students in this university happen to have their own mothers. Those who are unfortunate not to have one, they have their guardians, those with non-have their girlfriends as their ‘mothers’. Those who don’t have either have God as their ‘mother’. And even those who are unfortunate enough not to ...

Maybe sometimes we get it wrong, or maybe no, maybe we always get it wrong, or maybe some people think we always get it wrong, or maybe it’s all just because we get it all wrong just because we think or were told we have gotten it wrong. Pride and ego is the enemy of one self. It will eat you up from the inside and destroy you but that’s the ego and pride inside a man. Wasn’t a man made to die or be destroyed by his own pride and ego? The worry and the new end or fallout of our society is the pride and ego of a woman. A woman is the true self of the society. A woman is the sole manifest of love, happiness, and success. A woman is the light from the darkness and the evil side of the world. The most painful evil and cruel thing to happen to out society is a woman with pride and an ego. Pride and an ego in a woman are more or same as betrayal. One should rather die than be betrayed there is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. What’s there for man ...

The Invisible Dragon I have a dragon inside of me He jumps in my mouth when I want to be free He grabs at my throat when I want to speak He makes me so scared that I feel very weak You can’t see my dragon coz he’s deep down inside But he makes me so nervous; all I want to do is hide I wish that I could speak to you – I wish I had the choice But the dragon inside of me has snatched away my voice When you ask a question and all l want to do is answer you When you call my name and make me think about   you I simply can’t answer – my throats too tight Coz my dragon says “BOO” and I jump with fright It really makes me sad; all I want to do is cry Coz I’d love to be your friend if I wasn’t so shy So if my face doesn’t smile when you ask me to play It’s because this pesky dragon just won’t go away

FREE THINKER Am sited with my laptop on my lap on a chilly Tuesday evening  trying to confirm the opening dates for my 2016 academic year, this thought crosses my mind: do we really know the true meaning of the phrase “institution of higher learning?”. I check my universities website and alas it has the same phrase. Then I ask myself; do the people or rather the students know the true meaning or the power in the phrase “institution of higher learning”. Am writing this blog in a somber and sorrowful mood.  Not to shame, insult or critics anybody but to acknowledge the challenges institutions of higher learning are facing. An important idea in the definition of “institution of higher learning” is the notion of academic freedom. I will not indulge myself in the whole notion of defining academic freedom but again l ask does anyone really acknowledge what academic freedom translates to? I happen to love my motherland country Kenya at the same time I happen to love my school too...

l have listened and heard people air their views concerning the issue and use of Jamii Bora smart id's in the institution. l am not a partisan party in this debate. I'm neither pro or against use of these smart id's. After all we claim we are in a digital era starting with the government to our tv signals in our house holds. l recently heard an old 'mzee' refer to the younger generation as 'hawa watoto digital' so why even argue on the use of smart cards when we claim its the digital era. For those of us debating and shouting on top of their voices about these smart id's were you not the first mongrels who were lined up at the ICT department to pick up the id's? when the notice went out weren't you one of the first people to comment how fancy you thought they looked and started urging other comrades to go and get an upgrade as you thought they were in to upgrade the image of the school.   Did you for once think what it ment when you read the t...

        As the rotors of the Kenya Air force black hawk starts slowing down producing a sharp   whiling sound signaling the final decent of the military helicopter I cork my American made M-16 rifle and let myself drift away in the reality of being shot dead in the battle field. I am a member of the elite 20 th paratroopers of the Special Forces in the Kenyan military. My country is at war and I am one of the first military personnel to land in the battle field. Behind I leave a girl am madly in love with. The thought of leaving her behind is clouding up my mind but I have to do this for the safety of my mother land. I pray that she will believe in my words, “I will be back soon love” but all this will be put into test if I make it to come back home crippled or if I end up with a bullet lodged in my chest. We will be trying to make it work as we made the promise before the night I left but man deep in my heart I can feel these days...