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Aal Is Vel
Aal Is Vel It is in an aircraft 28,000 feet in the air that I find out a COVID-19 test…
Daughters For Sale
When the first reports of Afghan families selling or marrying their adolescent daughters for food or debt settlement flashed up…
Who Cares / A Nightmare
Who Cares It’s Deepawali, or Diwali, the festival of lights for almost 1.5 billion people of the world population, almost…
Orphans Stories
Ulfat – Zanzibar I meet Ulfat some three years ago, in her grandmother’s pitiful house somewhere in Zanzibar. It has…
Have Sheesha, Will Smoke
Have Sheesha, Will Smoke Emirates flight EK 726 from Dar es Salaam to Dubai is almost full. The crew (most…
Yes, I Am Mad / I Give Up
Yes, I Am Mad The die is cast. The impossible has happened. My nightmare is real. I have navigated through…
Am I A Mshenzi? Or A Mjeenga?
Mshenzi – Uncivilized Mjeenga – Illiterate I’ve just finished my early morning exercise routine and am looking forward to a…
Kabul Trails
This Blog was published in 2018 – I rerun it now due to the current events in Afghanistan. It’ll give…
Sabah Wants A Divorce – An Update
I and fellow Trustees Shaida Hussain and Sohail are traveling to Sierra Leone, all the way to the west coast…
Our Twisted World…
There was a time in my adult life when I had to fret about keeping my travel itinerary straight. Where…
An Eventful Morning Walk / Meeting With The President
An Eventful Morning Walk I do a brisk seventy-five minutes (approximately four miles) walk after morning salaat four times a…
Khoja COVID19 Shots – Kuku Here, Kuku There, Kuku Everywhere
Mullah Mchungu is in a sour, combative mood. He sits on his ancient recliner provocatively clutching his walking cane, glaring…