Blacked Out
I thought it was a bathroom, but as I took in my constrained surroundings, I realised it was not a friendly place. I shifted my body and got up. I…
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July 12, 2024
Dinner at the Hilton Hotel
You often don't get to have dinner at the Hilton Hotel, especially not on a student budget! In the final semester of our degree programme at the University of Nairobi,…
May 13, 2022
My 30 Years of AFCON
It just occurred to me that Kenya was once an African football powerhouse going by CAF records. For some reason, I thought the constant complaining about the state was our…
January 12, 2022
My Day in Moscow
She asked me which team I used to play for. I started to explain that I was not one of the legends, "I run The Football Foundation for Africa. It's an organisation.."
September 17, 2021
Foundation Seeks to Empower Players when they walk off the Football Pitch
By Odindo AyiekoWhen his friend, a former teammate at Strathmore University football club was gunned down by police five years ago in Tanzania on suspicion of engaging in criminal activities,…
October 28, 2020
The Sausages Analogy
Back when I was a boy, about eight or nine years old, video games were a rare spectacle. Few households owned a console, Atari, Nintendo or SEGA. Therefore, it was…
August 21, 2020
The Year of Return – Part Two
On July 21st 2009, I left my country for the first time in my life. I was bubbling with energy ready to take up an opportunity that had virtually fallen…
May 11, 2020
The Chairmen – Politicians, Administrators and Businessmen
Kenyans breathed a sigh of relief – “we are better off without international football, let’s get our house in order first”.
April 16, 2020
Photo by IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth
Farewell Balozi – Amb. Anthony Andanje
Such was the man — helpful, understanding, ready to listen (and TALK), efficient, DIPLOMATIC, forthright — Ambassador Anthony Andanje (Balozi).
February 18, 2020
The Year of Return – Part One
In Washington, D.C., in September 2018, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo declared and formally launched “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora, giving fresh impetus to the…
December 8, 2019