The Quiet in my head finds a way to jump out and grow bigger. The market pulsates with the familiar hum of hustle but the quiet augments itself, a behemoth on a mission. This short man with eyes begging for a pillow looks at me from head to toe and something about his body tightens, like a fist clen…
I dream of plains of skin; black velvet plains with horizontal perturbed scars when I look at my chest. I dream of a body not yet here. I dream of movement through bodies. Mut…
Most contemporary Muslims face a complex and ongoing struggle to reconcile their faith in God with the many different aspects of their lives in the modern world. And for rever…
Home can be a steady ground when your life is shifting sands. It is to me at least. Cutting lineages from your skin has consequences. It takes effort.…
As a Kenyan living in Kenya, the last few months have been difficult to say the least. Like many others, I have watched the prices of basic goods and …
We owe the people who produced us, our communities, more than just the Black tax we sometimes remit every end month. I, for one, owe my Mama a foot ma…
I am writing this after being deeply disappointed at the Boyz II Men concert held in Nairobi on Saturday, June 10. Deeply disappointed is the closest …
The Tragedy. 11 August 2017, Kisumu
Baby Samantha Pendo‘s life was short, her death abrupt and painful.
That way, Samantha Pendo became a metaphor of Kenya’s 2017 electoral violence.
Days after the 2017 general election, Pendo’s family was fast asleep in their Kisumu home, a one room …
Had Grace Monica Akech Onyango never joined politics, her contribution to society would already have been immense. Onyango was a teacher; the first woman assist…
I remember where I was on the day that the results of the Lamu Gubernatorial race were announced. Saturday 13 August 2022. I sat on the living room rug of my ch…
A few years later, the handwritten newspaper grew into something more concrete. Vidyarthi founded the Colonial Printing Works, a print media house focused on pu…
Why do some societies find it harder to wear masks, maintain social distancing and adhere to set curfews or lockdowns? It comes down to one simple but vital virtue that must be sha…
After a 10-month long break, its back to school for millions of pupils across the country. However, the resumption is far from normal as learners and
parents now mu…
The Rothschild giraffe, also known as the Baringo giraffe is a subspecies of the Northern giraffe. It was named after Lionel Walter Rothschild, a British zoologist, who first descr…
While sports is a matter of grit and gut, footballers from plush backgrounds find it hard to break even in the local scene. And even when they do, they face prejudice from coa…
Women continue spending hundreds of hours weekly in search of water, instead of investing that time in income-generating activities which can improve living standards.…
“Everywhere I went, there were two things: A mosque and a football field.”These have been Khalid Jumaan’s constants regardless of where he was in the world…
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