“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish a lot.” –Blaise Pascal The dimly lit City Hall Annex foyer was dusty and stuffy. The willy-nilly building, recently constructed next to the main City Hall building in Nairobi‘s central business district, already looked tired. It may have been partly due to the heavy traffic […]
Monthly archives for August, 2014
Reflections of A Former Cadet
“The hope of a secure and liveable world lies with disciplined nonconformists.” –Martin Luther King I had waited eighteen months to join the National Youth Service (NYS) as a cadet. Being accepted at the university had been a-dream-come true. In my days, there were only about 2,000 freshmen admissions per year in Kenyan universities. Like […]