6 min read. I cannot count the number of times I was caned for speaking up against my father, or for behaving in a way that...
9 min read. We are still trying to understand who we are and how our society got here, and in doing so we reject the mantra...
7 min read. “Jamaa, si hukubali vitu nyingi sana sababu yaani society inatuforce tukubali.” – Nonini Once, not long ago, I was sitting on a bench...
13 min read. Progressive millennials should avoid the nationalistic approaches of their elders and focus their energies on undoing the exploitative colonial state rather than improving...
11 min read. There’s something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy. – Aminatta Forna Our parents...
13 min read. Falling fertility and mortality rates have put Kenya in line to reap the same demographic dividend that powered the rise of the Asian...
10 min read. If a doctor were to diagnose millennial marriages, he would find them diseased, plagued by forces of nature beyond their control. These three...
13 min read. The pent-up frustrations over the failures of previous generations, as expressed in the Elephant’s Millennial Edition, may signal the emergence of a new,...
8 min read. The problem with becoming a man is that no one really teaches you how to live it out, partly because everyone will do masculinity...
6 min read. Before I gave birth to my daughter I was probably what the embattled boy-child would today call a ‘toxic feminist’. My place was...
