• Meet Soila & Curtis: Happily Married In Their 20s

    Meet Soila & Curtis: Happily Married In Their 20s

    The image painted of Marriage is that of a wedding gown, a ring worn, honeymoon or a paper signed. Signed to pronounce a life commitment and for others, a convenience drawn back before even the ink dries. Till death do us part, they say, assuming no other lifetimes after mortality. If you take this at…

  • Meet Santuella: The Wanderer Lost In Prose

    Meet Santuella: The Wanderer Lost In Prose

    This life is an adventure. The thing about it is, where we wander; none have walked before.  Our life is sacramental. Infact someone once wrote, ‘It is lived as a secret and told as a lie. Sure, we share bits and pieces of what happens throughout our days, or within our nights, but that’s all….

  • Meet Fidel Makatia: The Einstein from Kenyatta University

    Meet Fidel Makatia: The Einstein from Kenyatta University

    When Plato argued that ‘Necessity is the mother of all inventions’, he provoked a storm of ideas on who actually gives birth to inventions. Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead disagrees with this idea. In fact, he thinks this proverb is silly. He says, “Necessity is the mother of futile dodges” is much closer to the truth. ‘The…

  • Meet Rawder Kidula: Road to Radio and Christ, In Her Own Words

    Meet Rawder Kidula: Road to Radio and Christ, In Her Own Words

    I love my pieces articulate and declamatory. The kind that stirs your mind, leaves it in a trainwreck of thoughts and later buries it in a bubble. Tea or coffee. They are my companions in this quest. Today, I chose tea. And guess what my teabags reminded me of?… Women! “They are like teabags”, Eleanor…

  • Nostalgia is a nasty liar!

    Nostalgia is a nasty liar!

    Drinks bring back memories. But so do breaths. Every single one of them. At least for us teetotalers, who don’t need drinks to subject our minds to involuntary time travel. The year is 2015. I am in love, with a tender soul who smiles charitably and freely. Eyes are meant to see but hers speak,…

  • PART 2: Birthdays Are For Ladies and Maybe Short Men

    PART 2: Birthdays Are For Ladies and Maybe Short Men

    Who gets rejected and elated simultaneously on his birthday? That can only be a loser who doesn’t give a shilling about the basic rules of charm. That loser is me. I finally understood what it feels to be a Man U fan.  So for the past 22 years, I have successfully satisfied the inclination of…

This is how it all started…

I’ve always had a loud mind. Constantly shooting ideas, half-formed thoughts, questions I couldn’t ignore. Most of them didn’t need answers. They just needed somewhere to go.

For a long time, I carried them around. Let them pile up. That didn’t end well. Writing became the release. The pause button. A way to slow my thinking down enough to hear myself clearly. Not to impress. Not to perform. Just to empty the noise onto a page.

Babithoughts is personal. Unfiltered. Sometimes messy. Sometimes sharp. Often unfinished. It mirrors how my mind actually works, not how it’s supposed to sound.

I write here to make sense of things. Work. People. Ambition. Contradictions. Africa. Me.