Opinion Planet Trump timing  got me in a fix Story   ||   B y Derrick Kubasu   My homie talked about anything and everything that night; From Melania’s dress to Michele’s weight, to Baron’s insanity and Kidero’s 200 million shillings saga. I  woke up on Saturday the 21 st  feeling empty and out-rightly fazed. The reason—I had a chance to listen to the groundbreaking and innocuous speech of the likely revolutionary business president but due to unlikely neighbors, I didn’t. I am a proud Luhya son and I honestly joyfully spasm when I see that great region concur. Like when a super Alliance attracts leaders from there and keeps them in one basket. Or when its iconic band is repeatedly crowned the country’s finest or better yet, when many more sons and daughters join lucrative institutions of higher studies and get social while at it. But yesterday, during Trump’s inauguration, I had my worst social encounter, yet. First, the inauguration timing c

Opinion Let’s Melba toast to a year of Disappointments 2016 Story || By Derrick Kubasu R ight now, it is 9:30pm and I am sited in a tiny bed-and-study-table-only college room chronicling the cheats and disappointments that have been the year 2016. Exactly five minutes ago, the power had universally gone out leaving me in a dark sport: more like a blind spot. A blind spot I now realize I’ve been in it for a year staring at promising prospects that have so far remained just that; promising prospects. Exactly 10 months ago, I was involved in a major project, alongside a friend, juggling Photoshop, Dream Weaver, Notepad and the internet trying to create our own website. We often argued over the font types, colors, content type and the right audience to target and even anticipated, at times, how big t he company ( this company ) was likely to turn out before publishing it on February first and raising a glass to that feat. Be