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5 men you won't miss at your 'local

  • Kenya is a drinking nation(so they say) and there are clubs and pubs in every centre.
  • If you walk into any ‘local’, there are some types of people you are bound to bounce in to.

Last Monday night, just after the presidential debate (that turned out to be NASA leader Raila giving a presentation to some television questions, now that the president had gone MIA on the media), I decided to pop down and out of my apartment to buy a takeaway bottle of something to quietly celebrate the salvation of the Press, which had been much maligned the week before when almost all the would-be running mates RAN away from the TV debates.

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