Creative Writer, Copywriter & Storyteller

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What makes something memorable? Stories. Stories explain us. They connect us, reveal who we are. I look for the story behind the brand, the emotion behind the action and the why behind the what. Everything is a story and there are not enough storytellers. A Creative Writer, Copywriter and Storyteller from Kakamega, Eddy Ashioya prides himself in finding the face behind the façade.

Eddy Ashioya’s Achilles heel is his unrequited love for home-cooked, soft-peeling, eat-all-you-want chapatis.

the dead are born every day

Life, for the dead, is within reach of the marble headstones, the comfort in sleeping in friendly proximity to the living.

Nairobi, Nairoberry, KaNairo

If you find yourself 1-v-1 with an avocado and say, “Hii nitakula kesho.” You have already lost that war.

How I Lost My Faith in Church

Jesus has always been box-office. You can tell by how the church, and in extension, religious organisations have been serving popcornentertainment by falling over themselves, angling to frolic in...

Potential

To begin in the beginning, the signpost announced, Come in! Come in! The decision had been taken from me. So I went in. It was really a shebeen whose crevices were filled with shysters, gigolos,...

What a drink with a governor taught me about dreams

I asked him, the bartender, to make me the manliest drink he can, because you know how it is in this regime. You don’t want people calling you a soy boy, or an incel, or whatever the manosphere comes up with next. My order is: Something that would make the manliest man you know even more manly. And so he does. It tastes like donkey’s piss, which is what a manly drink should taste like, I guess.

Kampala ain’t no Kanairo

I’d been warned about the women in that district, their thunder thighs and 34DDD breasts. People told stories about them, threesomes and foursomes. I desperately wanted to believe them

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