Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.