Henry Ericks Art

 by Henry Onyango Unemployment rate in Kenya continues to beckon day by day  and  this has indeed created  instances  that has so far provoked many youth living in  slums as it is popularly known  look for an alternative  quick alternative lest things go out of hand. Many youths have restored to try singing even with croaking voices that no radio station or presenter would opt to hear play not even the listeners, perhaps this could deter listeners of the radios stations switch to another more serious station and never to tune in again . Consequently there is no money to shoot the videos to a formalized production house ending up shooting an unacceptable music video that may be cannot go beyond where it has been shot. Babior Newton, 20 must have heard all these factors in mind and said no not ever to music studios. He decided to put pen on  paper and enjoy what he loved most at Usenge High school in Kisumu county  back then-English compo...

By Henry Onyango In Kibiko estate at the foot of Ngong hills a woman is struggling to perform a role most  women will  shy away from. Her role is caring for the little children whose parents have either abandoned or are deceased. Dimina Khasiala Kahi, 52 left her house help job she did for 20 years before meeting the maiden role of taking care of the orphaned children .She is currently the director and founder of Tunza children’s center based in Ngong.  Mrs. Kahi says that she never planned to own a children’s home at any one time but it was only by fortune that she found herself into the activity that has helped many abandoned children in coming from several  parts of the country get a feeling of what their mother failed to offer.  She narrates how one early morning back in 1997 before going  to work in Westlands she saw and fetched a brown carton covered with polythene sheets all over at the dumping site near her place at Kibera’s  Makina estate. She...