Why I Bought the Newspaper Today?
A while back as I was walking with a group of friends along Kenyatta Avenue at the intersection to Kimathi Street, I stopped my friends and told them to check something out. It was not the occasional police chasing gangs. It was not a politicians passing by whom at times make people stop in their tracks to admire them for their capacity to build the nation, rather it was something substantial, something that more often we take for granted and never take a moment to think over. I had stopped at a newspaper vendor. Yes, he had lined all kinds of newspapers, journals, tabloids, magazines and anything that people look to buy. As I talked to the vendor on the latest news in the country, my friends were surprised that I was going to the depth of asking vendor what certain writers had penned for the day. They were amused that instead of buying a newspaper that says it’s the leading in the country, I was looking to see what the people who make it so had penned on that day. ...