by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 30, 2023 | Chinedu Tales
There is a certain routine of life and I’m willing to blur the lines at the end of it, because as I get older, I have learned that I could be quite rigid, but I understand there are such shades of grey in life as in fiction. For instance, having dreadlocks and running...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 23, 2023 | Chinedu Tales
Look, I like to consider myself a brave, bold and beautiful man. I have applied for jobs the only qualification I had was that I was breathing; I have been sad and still said no to drugs when furaha was kulewa na marafiki. Heck, I have even dated in Nairobi, which if...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 17, 2023 | Chinedu Tales
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 the corridors of power—from mashinani tomajuu. For a cleric, the hottest...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
It is now exactly *checks notes* nine years since I took someone’s daughter for a date at Java. I was fresh off the high school boat, a greenhorn in matters red. I had been saving up for several terms, three to be exact, because Sauti Sol had cooed that taking a girl...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Back when I was a highly impressionable young man with a sepia tinted view of the world, I always looked at things in twos. I loved dating, I still do, but I used to, too. I consider this our first date, and I know you are a bit nervous but I want you to know this; I...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
How To Advise A Man In Love: Do Not As the old romantic saying almost goes: if you love something, let it go – naturally while retaining a semblance of hope that it will come back. Is there anything left to say about that over-analysed institution, The Couple? What...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Look, I know what you are thinking. Another writer? Another guy to fill in the shoes in this high revolving door? And, what’s his name again? From where? And you are right. I no more want to bore you with primers than you want to count the stars. I feel like the new...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Sigh. Men, pull up a chair. We need to talk. Here’s how the end of days will come: The offensive, we are told, will take many forms. The first sign may be the constant niggling. The cracks will then appear in your fraught relationships. The rupture will be your...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
Let’s start with a confession: I have a fetish for older women. Let’s finish it with a disclaimer: but I’m not looking to date one. Yet. Now, I am not one to kiss and tell, because I am a gentleman—the opening door type, in fact—but I will go ahead and say that I...
by Eddy Ashioya | Mar 15, 2022 | ManTalk
My friends have been nitpicking what they are saying around me, a little too much on their guard, behaving as if they will now become themes of this revered Mantalk column. As if I am that kind of person. As if I would change their names and write about them. Me?...
