16 min read. As Kenya’s forgotten mothers get worn out by the load of a nation’s collective misdeeds in pursuit of political power, a day shall...
1 min read. A podcast of Bulimu Chole's article "Red Earth: The Killing of Carilton David Maina" published on The Elephant
1 min read. Something happened on December 31st, 2011, and seemingly overnight, Kenyans began to religiously comply with the expanding security protocols. I was no exception....
6 min read. The “War on Terror” is a disruption, that makes normal, absurd reality, a privation of humanity, a shape-shifting enemy that yearns for innocent...
1 min read. The sound of the gun was so loud that we thought he had shot at us from inside the building, perhaps from the...
10 min read. I have been thinking about the old man who spoke to me on my way to work. Why me? Why did he follow...
5 min read. There has arisen a new security architecture mostly in the city that commodifies our fears, and develops surveillance products to monetise it. They promote an...
8 min read. After the Garissa massacre, universities became like military installations. Private security firms were deployed to man the gates and the buildings within universities....
5 min read. I. Some years ago, I forgot my national ID in a jeans pocket before a wash and it’s been steadily losing glue ever...
7 min read. Rather than destroying the colonial system, what Kenyan leaders desired at independence was to replace the coloniser. So they saw no need to...
