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On the fourteenth of every month a new board goes up in Nairobi, and a city that did not write the numbers reads them the way a farmer reads the sky. For 15 October to 14 November 2026 the board says super petrol at KES 226.96 a litre, diesel at KES 227.76...
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · World War 3
World War 3
On the fourteenth of every month a new board goes up in Nairobi, and a city that did not write the numbers reads them the way a farmer reads the sky. For 15 October to 14 November 2026 the board says super petrol at KES 226.96 a litre, diesel at KES 227.76...
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · 5 min read
World War 3
Of the Hall, and Its Many Doors There is a refinery on the coast of Gujarat that can take in 1.4 million barrels of crude oil a day. Al Jazeera reports that the Jamnagar complex has processed more than 216 grades of crude, and that it was built to export....
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · 5 min read
World War 3
Imagine a container ship on a clear morning east of Taiwan. Its hull is heavy with boxes, its crew is at breakfast, and the engines hum on beneath the deck. Then a voice comes over the radio. It is a government voice, courteous and procedural, and it asks ...
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · 5 min read
World War 3
Imagine a ship at the mouth of the strait with its lamps switched off (the ship is imagined, and so is its captain). Its transponder is dark, its radar is silent, and it is feeling its way down a passage only one body wide. Its captain listens to the water...
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · 5 min read
World War 3
Reader, a ship went down in the last days of October, off the Bulgarian coast, while the rooms of Europe were busy with their communiqués. Imagine a long room of old walnut, a fire laid by someone who still believes in fires, and a table around which mini...
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · 5 min read
World War 3
Reader, you felt the draught before you saw the guest. The American room is warm with lamps and loud with clocks, but the cold came along the floor from the far side of the hall, under the door and round the legs of the chairs, as cold always enters a grea...
Mr. Derrick Macharia
October 30, 2026 · 5 min read
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