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13 November, 2018

UGANDAN PASSION, KENYAN FIRE

The final National Tournament before the African Championships in Kirinyaga County took place this past weekend in the Western lakeside City of Kisumu, the glorious land by Lake Victoria of mesmerizing Sunsets, graceful Impalas and a staggering 115 bird species!

April 14, 2018

LAST CHANCE QUALIFIER MAGIC

WESPAC kicked off with the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) for those people who for Business reasons got too busy to play all the local Qualifiers needed to make their National Teams proper for the Main Event. It was a one-dayer featuring 8 games of tension.

July 15, 2017

UGANDAN CAULDRON

The International boiling Scrabble crucible of the 5th WESPAC Nairobi Qualifier took place in Kampala at the end of May. These tough 18 matches were held at Makerere University Business School (MUBS).

27 April, 2017

PHENOMENON : LEGENDARY

Buried deep beneath my Company business files was this report I wrote weeks ago, lost, almost forever. 32 games from the African Scrabble Championships in Accra, Ghana. Its rediscovery had me wondering, should I release it, after all it contains unmitigated pain and suffering. Agony so intense that it couldn’t possibly exist on a Scrabble board.

8 August, 2016

Mysterious Wagadugu

A bead of sweat breaks out on your forehead. The dew of perspiration lingers on your upper lip. You take a deep breath to expel the air from your constricted lungs as a spine-tingling chill runs down your back. The air around you is charged, electric. The atmosphere is thick with the promise of excitement, of danger.

10 june, 2016

SULTAN OF MOMBASA, KING OF KENYA

The 18-game event in Mombasa, the Golden City in the Sun, doubled as a WSC Qualifier.