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About - Owaahh
We are here for stories… Somewhere behind the stories you read here, and the wormholes you follow with us, there’s a team of self-absorbed smartasses who spend day and night refusing to write. But som...
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There was once a ship called SS Karanja - Owaahh
There were actually three ships by that name and no, none was owned by or named for a Kikuyu man. The first SS Karanja, a paddle steamer, was built in 1865. The second one was built in 1930 and the th...
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A Castle in Nyahururu - Owaahh
There's a castle in Nyahururu that look likes it has been transplanted through time and place. It's a rather imposing reminder that a night on Electric Avenue is not a proper break, and neither is goa...
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The Kenyan Spy Who Wrote A Book - Owaahh
In what is only the second book by a former Kenyan spy, Bart Kibati writes about the intrigues within Kenya and the Secret Branch during his 27 years there. Its an incomplete historical record even of...
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Profiles Archives - Owaahh
In life he fought harder than anyone else to wipe out the fact that he was not a good man. That his legacy was already stained and broken. In death, he must not be allowed to continue doing that. Or p...
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Features Archives - Owaahh
In May 2003, two men who didn’t know how to fly a Boeing 727-223 stole one from an Angolan airport. They have never been found, and neither has the plane. 15 years later, no one knows why they did it.