Najma Ismail

Illustration: Michael De Lucchi ‘I must admit, Jen, I never thought you’d go through with this.”Jennifer diverted her brown eyes away from her cellphone, the smile beneath her sun hat fading fast as Graeme’s words reached her as she was trekking up the hill behind him. “You didn’t?” she asked, unsettled. “To be honest,” he turned around and, despite the load tied to his back, was still as fresh as a cucumber, just as he was earlier that morning when they’d departed for the mountain.

The Lord Erroll Gourmet Restaurant has put Kenya on the list of destinations with top global luxury restaurants. This is after the restaurant won nine awards during the prestigious World Luxury Restaurant Awards, 2018. The awards ceremony held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the Galgorm Resort and Spa on July 14, saw 200 luxury restaurants and hotels from 42 countries around the world competing for the prestigious awards.

Poetry is our underappreciated art form. Jorge Luis Borges once said, “Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.” I once had the opportunity to read my favorite poem at an event in Houston hosted by Robert Pinsky, America’s Poet Laureate.