Wam Literature

Do we have enough space for children to play? Are we ready to let the children play? Can we sit down and enjoy the extra co-curricular activities of our kids? On Sunday, I was travelling to Nairobi. Just at Nyayo stadium, there was this huge traffic jam, which of course is a nightmare to parents on such a day when they are taking their kids on a stroll. This jam has of course created employment to a number of hawkers who brandish their wares on motorists. From peanuts to car spare parts and of course the very noble kids wares. So this couple is held by jam, and a hawker brandishes just the right product! A ball, we have peculiar behaviour though, the balls we buy are never for the foot or leg, but for water polo, anyway, the child demands to own one and the mother buys. Now the child has a football eer water polo ball, don’t ask me its name, all I know is the ball is meant to be kicked, the Kenya way. I remember when we were young; we kicked even the basketball, volleyball and the...

You know i would have much to say... First we need to define, redefine failure. The kid Kevin has already failed in being a citizen of the home (boring), to make it short, he should find it in himself to put some mmph in the home or read his books, at home. When i walk the streets @ 6 AM or @ 6:30 PM and see the kids on average walk home with no sense of urgency, with no sense of purpose as it were, i see failures. We are failing our children. Let the children play. We should be afraid when our children are not behaving like children That is the real fear  BY Bob Agevi Mulusa Via Facebook. “If you train a lion to sit and the lion sits perfectly, we never say the lion is well educated, we say the lion is well trained” (Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad, a character in the Indian movie 3 Idiots) In the past year, and this year, we have heard a series of teenage suicides. The suicides were such that they raised concern on everybody. Just the other day, primary school pupils ...

                 I am deeply concerned with the ban on holiday tuition. Holiday tuition as it has been known was introduced when there was need to raise education standards in the country. The extra tuition was in a way, extra classes where, in a country where the number of teachers is extremely low, students who had no teachers for the better part of the term got a chance to get some work done. The evolution has been so drastic that it became a punishment to weak student. In a country that everyone is trying to succeed, the tuition now became a trend to give an extra mileage to students.                   The ban comes as a shocker to Kenyans who had more than embraced it as a way of life. I have to confess that some students even find it awkward to stay at home. An eleven year old, standard six pupil confessed to me that, she does not really...

           Let us be realistic and not just face the lies of our realities. We are living in a highly volatile world, very wild indeed. It is true that Kenya needs peace and she needs it now, especially this time when we are headed for elections. As we lead and attend these workshops and conferences, the questions we fail to answer are: What is the cause of all these unrests we experience during the elections? How, in our very own way, have we tried to address the causes of upheavals in this country? Are we really serious that we yearn for peace? Are we in a state of peaceful coexistence before we scream for peace in other circles? How then are we going to call for peace and yet we are stepping on our brother’s toe?                These fundamental questions have no answers in my own point of view. Why?   Because we are not yet ready to answer them. Those of u...

As much as we are quick to blame our Team Kenya for abysmal performance in the London Olympics, there is one thing we should learn from them or teach them: Success is unity with individual input. There is more of being my brother’s keeper that our young brothers and sisters are doing out there. Whenever a race starts, you will see members of the Team Kenya converse as they strategize, on how to win the race. That is number one sin; “ thou shalt not plan for how to win the war during the battle you will definitely loose.”   Another thing that has discredited the Team Kenya is, waiting for the team counter part to come forth and be close behind. That is, they are eyeing for a double or a treble. That is fundamental good, impregnable and strategic plan. It boosts the teamwork and the unity that has forever been stronger. However, in the quest of strategizing for team victory, the athletes commit sin number two; “ Thou shalt not withdraw back when you have charged towards the en...