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Blackman is Whiteman’s Tool

By David Maillu Published December 12, 2024 Once upon a time President Reagan asked, “Why should we help Africans build their economy when they did not help us build our economy?” Now over 30,000 Kenyans who are undocumented in the US fear being targeted under the...

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Prayer Answered

By David Maillu Published December 3, 2024 Wakiki and Mbesa were not ordinarily girlfriends. They had been high schoolmates when they parted and Mbesa went to college while Wakiki went to Teacher Training. Both ended in being teachers because Mbesa studied Education...

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God or Nature?

By David Maillu Published September 28, 2023 I have just listened to a presenter on BBC talking about the diminishing glacier in Austria and its devastating consequences to the socio-economics of the community. Then another comment was made by another speaker...

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Do You Fear or Respect God?

By David Maillu Published September 12, 2023 I recently published a question on Facebook asking, “What criteria would you consider best qualities of a wife?” One of the first persons to answer was a man who said, “To me, the first qualification is that she be a...

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Sex and Religion

By David Maillu Published September 4, 2023 In Kikamba language there is a word, “wiu.” You hear in Akamba tradition that no burial in the family should take place during the “wiu” condition. Although the word means “blackness,” it refers to menstruation. That is, if...

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The ‘Bad Eye’ Witch

By David Maillu Published September 1, 2023 There are people born with special and deadly bodily attributes which qualify them to be given certain names. Stories abound that there are people who are, by fate design, misfortune causers. In scientific language, they are...

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