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OF FOUNTAIN PENS

  Of Fountain Pens What can we say about the devices that enable us write? Ca n they write a story of their own? These are the questions that plagued my 10 year old mind. It was the year ( You'd be able to calculate my age, Let me hide) . In class 5. I was in a day primary school where, I presume like in many other schools, progressing in class meant progress in one facet that is king in the world of learning. The white missionaries who harboured selfish and ulterior motives under the guise of spreading the gospel outright proclaimed the 3R’s: Reading, wRiting and Rithmetic. I’m talking about writing. If writing is king, then reading is queen. And rithmetic is the king’s side-dish. Sorry for that inappropriate TMI. I can’t remember the day I first wrote anything. However, I have parents who filed every exercise book and school report from 1994.  My father has been filing KCPE and KCSE results newspapers. I’m talking about the newspapers that show results of the national exams....