IN theory beekeeping was a money-spinner. My father owned 40 beehives in Kyamwame forest. I asked my old man one chilly evening as we sat around a bonfire why he kept all the hives in that distant forest, an hour’s walk away from our home.
over 10 years ago
I was at the salon the other day getting my maintenance on. I call it maintenance because that is exactly what it is. Maintenance is everything from getting hair done, eyebrows plucked and things nipped, so the distinction between human and animal is easy.
I CANNOT believe I did this. For the first time in I don’t know how long, I did not follow the live broadcast of the 2011/12 budget speech. I had enough of talk and promises of ghost achievements which not even the most optimistic socialist party cadre can believe in.
LET me take you back to last January when my column ran a headline on Almanac for the year 2011. The almanac reflected the real meaning of recording events that coloured the year.
In many parts of the world, people are celebrating father’s day Sunday, June 17th. This is a direct response to the celebration of mother’s day; in other words, it is a chance for many to pay tribute to the men who have raised children.
SUDDEN Infant Death Syndrome, also referred to as cot death, is a term used to describe the situation when a baby dies suddenly and unexpectedly for no apparent reason. Sudden death in infants (cot death) is a shocking incident that may occur at any time.
When God decided to settle Nyamwezi in Nyamwezi land and the Abakurya on the land that spreads from Suba Kuria in Migori District in Kenya to Rorya in North Mara in Tanzania, he was not mistaken.
MWALIMU Julius Nyerere warned Africans had no uncle. That being the case, there were only two options for them. Either they could stand on their feet and be counted among the global comity of nations or perish.
WATCHING Al-Jazeera television last week, I was struck by a news-report that even a blend of flowers found and unique to Iran cannot be exported out of that Persian country thanks to crippling massive sanctions in place imposed by the UN Security Council at the prodding of western powers.
After the publication of my numerous articles, one thing I can take it for granted that my avid readers must by now be conditioned to believe that most of the time I talk about saving money and seldom about spending it.