One life lesson that my late mother imparted on me and which has always been my guiding light is to keep away from gossipers and social moles. By the latter I mean people who are always digging up issues about other peoples’ lives, including their spouses...

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Young Moses Annan is happy to be alive today.As he plays gleefully at his foster home at Mwakingali village in Voi, Taita-Taveta County, little Annan is oblivious of what fate could have befallen him after her mother gave birth and dumped the baby boy...

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Despite being a key foreign income earner for the country, sisal farming has remained a “sleeping giant” in Kenya’s agribusiness ventures, trailing behind tea, coffee and horticultural produce. The challenges facing the sisal sub-sector in Kenya hinge...

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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO President Barack Obama’s tour of Kenya as the first sitting American president to do so has no doubt gone into the annals of Kenyan history as a landmark event that we shall remember for many years to come. It is a legacy Obama has...

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Mzee Kera Mwashimba It’s early in the morning at Mabomani village in Voi, Taita –Taveta County. An elderly man with one arm laboriously uproots weeds which have encroached on his compound, almost to the doorstep. Once in a while he stretches out and yawns,...

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ECHOES OF INNOCENCE (A poem about my childhood days) The rocks and ridges rose Right out of our childhood mood; In awe they held us we young Watching them caressing the sky, And all we young in wonderment Always wondering why The landforms lay in wakeless...

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Mwazindika is a Taita traditional dance for the gods as well as celebrating life. Traditionally, the mwazindika was also used to exorcise evil spirits especially in women. In fact the dance has remained a cultural showcase of all times, and no public...

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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. And for the Voi based Wafuasi Theatre Group things are beginning to look up following their successful contract with a local TV station that will be showing their most popular...

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Taita-Taveta governor John Mruttu got a sobering experience when he came face to face with the illicit brew menace at the Maweni slums in Voi sub-county. The governor who led a team of security officers and local leaders from Voi sub-county during the...

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BY PASCAL MWANDAMBO For many years Jonathan Mwabili, a peasant farmer in Tausa village, Voi sub-county, Taita-Taveta County, has had to contend with poor yields of maize and green grams. At the worst, Mwabili recorded a failed crop, with the maize stalks...

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