2012
The Pyramid of Identity: Of Birth Certificates, ID’s and Passports in Kenya – David Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailSome years back I went to apply for passport at immigrations. Now to apply for a passport you need two national identification documents. You need a Birth Certificate and your national identity card. All these documents [...]
2012
Traffic and Human Ambition – David Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailTraffic jams in Nairobi have now become part of the vital morning news on every FM station. Jams are a city’s bold way of social paralysis. It’s as if the city connives with its infrastructure to [...]
2012
Nancy, Power and Respect – David Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailThe New Year was supposed to be a good one for the CJ. Maybe a way forward to the ruling on the next election could have been a good start and a needed jab of justice [...]
2011
Nai Reloaded – David Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailThis story was written in the wee hours of 2003. It got published in Kwani Journal at a time when I was using the Pen Name Jambazi Fulani. It was given unusual reference by a personality [...]
2011
Asterix: A Political Satire by David Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailThis article was written in 2004 a alot of things have changed and others have mutated to just another level.Feel free to comment. I got a certain feeling and a little more suspicious of the graphic [...]
2011
On Matters Security Again – David Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailHarambee Avenue houses senior government officials’ offices. The Presidents ‘Rectangle Office’, The PM’s newly decked office, Vigilante House (Kenya Police), Foreign Affairs, Education, Treasury the list is endless. So you do not have to guess which [...]
2011
Losing Your Nationality for 30 min or Less – Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailHave you ever visited a friend in one of these security cautious buildings in the CBD. What do you surrender at the so often tired and miffed up receptionist on ground floor? Your Identity card! “Uneanda [...]
2011
Anko Anko! – Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailPrevious Scenes in the City It walks across the street, mucus drooping from its pair of nostrils, flies all over, scratching its bare bottoms with one hand and the other hand with a small bottle of [...]
2011
By Management – Paul Mavia
Share on TwitterShare via emailPrevious Scenes in the City “Usishuke kama Basi inatembea”, “No Hawkers and Preachers allowed in this Bus.” Typical signs you will find in the buses. Okoth picks a bus from TelePosta, a 46 heading to Kawangware. [...]
2011
Sane City
Share on TwitterShare via emailThis section will cover peculiar Nairobi cultural stuff. Sane City carries the philosophy optimism that in spite of the crazy unusual some funny witty good can be found in Nairobi. Share on TwitterShare via email
2011
THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD- Redeeming the African Thinker. David Paul Mavia.
Share on TwitterShare via emailWRITTEN IN THE WEE HOURS OF 2003 BASED ON AN INTERVIEW When your image and who you are, is informed by somebody who does not know you, it becomes very difficult to break away from that [...]
2011
Remembering an Artist: Simple ideas on Art and Activism in the life of Bantu Mwaura –Paul Mavia.
Share on TwitterShare via email Kenya lost one visible and determined artist. He was known to many as an activist. There is no telling whether that is how he wanted to be remembered. I interviewed Bantu three years ago at [...]
About David Paul Mavia
David Paul Mavia is a Content Strategist,
Creative Socio Cultural Critic and Writer/Blogger based in Nairobi,Kenya.