By JJ Mponye: I was completely sober when I went over to Pam's place that Friday evening. I refused to drink the red wine that she offered me. “Wine will weaken me,” I thought. I knew and felt that I was in control. I had actually convinced myself, before setting off from the office, that I was strong enough to […]
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By JJ Mponye: The transformation that happened in our house after the incident of Tricia landing on Nama's charms was unimaginable. Nama gave her life to Christ, thanks to Tricia's preaching and prayers. And in a very rare show of faith, the lukewarm Christian in Tricia shot to boiling point and asked Nama to let her burn the charms that […]
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By JJ Mponye: Everything had been going on well between Nama, Tricia and I until Tricia’s curiosity got the better of her. She was snooping around for some sort of evidence in Nama’s bedroom when she landed on some bizarre stuff. It sent her scampering into the sitting room in unimaginable shock and anger. One would have thought she had […]
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By JJ Mponye: I was initially unbothered about getting to know Nama and her life story. Why would I need to get the intricate details of a maid who is here today and gone tomorrow? But when I finally got to know more about her, her stories reminded me of my mum. The deep-seated hatred in my heart gradually melted […]
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By JJ Mponye: If you can love someone at first sight, then you surely can also afford to hate another at first sight. After all, both situations require the same approach: a very shallow and hasty decision making process. A process that disregards the need to first get to know and experience someone before making an informed decision about them. […]
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By JJ Mponye: If you have never gotten drunk before and done something silly or regrettable then you are most likely to argue when someone blames their mistakes on the juice. But despite the fact that one might say you simply lack experience in these matters, I have reason to believe that you could be right in a way. While […]
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By JJ Mponye: Allowing oneself to continually walk in a path littered with temptation is like trying to perfect salsa moves with the devil. He will step on you and drop you down because that is how he likes it best. I had heard about the new breed of liberated working class women who wanted to have babies without masculine […]
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By JJ Mponye: When Tricia declared “Well then, you'll just have to survive the Moscow way,” she must have meant that I needed to realize I had no more privileges and therefore needed to take personal responsibility. But to me the word Moscow also stirred up other memories. Moscow, in fact Russia, is like a scar that always reminds me […]
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By JJ Mponye: Going over last night's events reminds me of one popular English saying, “Never count your chickens before they hatch”. We had not been intimate for quite a while. A month perhaps. And frankly I was as hungry for it as a starved pregnant lioness would be for game. My appetite was roused by some cute little models […]
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By JJ Mponye: I have been stuck in this crazy early morning traffic jam along Jinja road for over thirty minutes. It is the beginning of the school term and almost everyone is taking their kids to school. Oh how I hate this season! Why can't parents just take their kids to boarding school and save us this perpetual morning […]
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