Wanjeri Gakuru

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It’s That Time

It's that time of year again, When toddlers beg for toys and new dresses, When parents remember the routes to their rural addresses, When chicken quiver and ...
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Love & Pizza

Falling in love is like having that first slice of pizza. Before you venture into the restaurant you've already given serious thought to finally eating pizz...
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Sometimes…

Their God is patient, Their God is kind, And thats why they speak to Him only Sometimes, Like those times when the storms are raging and they seek sturdy p...
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Mamaa

You see I barely even remember you, I try really hard but you slip behind the veils of my mind, and I feel as if im trying to catch the wind as it blows pas...
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Haterade Martini

Short and stout are my dimensions, And babe I have no objections, See I was fired in my mother's kiln and blessed with my father's wit, I am perfection, B...

Wanjeri Gakuru

Wanjeri Gakuru is a print journalist by profession and Associate Editor at UP Magazine. (a very cool, very funky Kenyan publication) She also moonlights as a poet and short fiction writer. She blogs at wanjeri.com