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2 months ago | 
tnx.africa | Mbugua Ngunjiri |Manuel Ntoyai |Fay Ngina |Molly Chebet
When love says goodbye. (Courtesy)The love season is fast approaching. This coming week, the streets of Nairobi will be painted red as people display their expressions of love, never mind that some will be faking it. Didn’t they say that you can fake it till you make it? Now, a Kenyan publisher plans to usher this year’s lover’s day with a difference. How do you fancy a book-themed Valentine’s special?
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
tnx.africa | Mugambi Mbaabu |Mbugua Ngunjiri |Peter Muiruri |Jayne Rose Gacheri
A New Year is a chance to reflect on the past year and make new resolutions for guidance. This age old tradition acts both as a compass and a self-accountability tool for improved outcome. Every first Sunday of the year many Christians attend a ‘Covenant Sunday’ where the congregants get an opportunity to give themselves wholly to God. The service emphasises the need to live in a grateful covenant relationship.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
tnx.africa | Mbugua Ngunjiri |Mugambi Mbaabu |Peter Muiruri |Jayne Rose Gacheri
TITLE: A Pillar of HopeAUTHOR: Millicent Akoth OlooPUBLISHER: LonghornREVIEWER: Mbugua NgunjiriFrom a very young age, life dealt Millicent Akoth a very hard blow. Her mother died when she was only eight months old, leaving her and her siblings under the care of their father. At the age of four, while living under the care of an uncle and his wife, the man would routinely drag her into a sugarcane farm and rape her. The complications of the beastly act is that she cannot bear children of her own.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
tnx.africa | Jayne Rose Gacheri |Mugambi Mbaabu |Mbugua Ngunjiri |Peter Muiruri
The festive season is over, the dust has settled down, and the celebratory mood is wearing away. The reality is that everyday life is here with us, and it is time to get back to reality and routine—back to work, back to business, and back to hustling.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
tnx.africa | Manuel Ntoyai |Maryann Muganda |Mbugua Ngunjiri |Kenyatta Otieno
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI, has announced hikes in their DNA testing fees on paternity and family relationship testing. The announcement which has got the public buzzing, will see the price go up by Sh7,000, from the initial Sh20,000 to now Sh27,000. The Institute serves both private clients as well as those referred from courts.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
tnx.africa | Mbugua Ngunjiri |Kenyatta Otieno |Boniface Mithika |Manuel Ntoyai
Starting next year, Wendy Njoroge will play a key role in shaping literary trends in Kenya and East Africa, a development industry players should take note of. Njoroge, co-founder of Soma Nami Books — a chain of bookshops in Adams Arcade and Ngara, has partnered with Narrative Landscape Press (NLP), one of Nigeria’s top literary publishing houses, to establish Narrative Landscape Press East Africa (NLPEA).
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Mbugua Ngunjiri
During Empress Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki ‘s last book launch, a couple met for the first time, started dating and it is going well so far. Ciku tells us to expect a wedding soon. Now, Ciku, who has authored four books, will be launching her fifth book, NaiRobbery Cocktail, to coincide with her 50th birthday, next Saturday, November 30, at 910 James Gichuru. Ciku has written four other books. They are Nairobi Cocktail, Immigrant Cocktail, Cocktail from the Savannah and A Cocktail of Unlikely Tales.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Mbugua Ngunjiri
Nairobian columnist Empress Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki is set to launch her fifth book at the end of the month. The book set to be launched on November, coincides with her 50th birthday, hence the hashtag #The5thAt50. The book, whose title is still under wraps, will be published by Mvua Press, an imprint of E-kitabu. Ciku pushes boundaries by humanising the so-called pariahs of the society, by basing her love stories on them. In her books, prostitutes, as well as former criminals, have fallen in love.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tnx.africa | James Omoro |Mbugua Ngunjiri |Fay Ngina |Ronald Kipruto
Homa Bay Deputy Governor Oyugi Magwanga has advised young men and women not to have children if they do not participate in agriculture. Magwanga argues that every parent must participate actively in crop and livestock production to enable them to be food secure. Food insecurity is a problem facing many people in the contemporary society. But the only remedy is agriculture which entails crop production and rearing of livestock.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tnx.africa | Mbugua Ngunjiri |James Omoro |Fay Ngina |Ronald Kipruto
A girl goes to a party, without her mother’s permission, where she meets a boy and there is a ‘connection’. One thing leads to the other and the boy asks the girl to join him in his car. A day later, the mother is worried sick about the whereabouts of her daughter. Her phone is switched off and none of her friends knows where she is. Presently, the girl comes back home and assures her mother that she is okay and that she was only at a party. This sounds reassuring, right? Wrong.
