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Family matters: the special one
Jackson Biko considers the problem of the favourite child I always felt that my brother, my immediate follower, was favoured over me when we were growing up. There was the way our parents were always...
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A polite request
Jackson Biko appeals to other parents to follow his small pool etiquette This is a polite request for the adults with big elbows to please get out of the baby pool. Yes you, Baldy. Don’t look around,...
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Give me a break
Jackson Biko puts an ad out for anyone looking to take his two-year-old off his hands for a few years… I subscribe to the UK’s The Sunday Times, which is probably the best publication in the whole...
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For the love of chapatis
Jackson Biko talks about his favourite food and why he might need to walk away from it Hi, my name is Jackson Biko and I’m a chapati addict. There. It’s out. They say the first step to recovery is...
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Doing a detox
So what’s wrong with a paunch or a potbelly? Jackson Biko asks the question while he battles with the bulge this month I’m currently on day 7 of a 15-day detox programme. How it works is that some lady...
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Live for the day
Jackson Biko doesn’t have a Bucket List. He also doesn’t have an excuse for it. I can’t think of a single thing I want to do before I die. I don’t want to see the Great Wall of China. Or see the Inca...
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Great expectations?
Jackson Biko looks back on birthdays past… I’m sitting with a lady friend having a Dawa in a café. It’s raining outside. She asks me what I will do on my 40th birthday in two years. I tell her I will...
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Dolly mixture
Jackson Biko buys a perfectly innocent souvenir and can’t understand what all the fuss is about I bought a little doll at O.R. Tambo Airport. It’s a small, colourfully beaded doll with long dreadlocks...
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Out & about
Jackson Biko is Msafiri’s man about town Surfing sensation! In January 2017 a small group of kitesurfers and windsurfers will attempt a world first – to sail non-stop from Lamu to Zanzibar. This...
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The art of small talk
Cocktail functions are a necessary (and painful) evil, suggests Jackson Biko The swimming pool sparkles like a bed of diamonds. Someone blows a saxophone in a jazz band at the edge of the square, his...
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