5 min read. Several years ago, I played host at the Nyungu Cultural Club Personalities evening to Wambui Otieno. The public’s enthusiasm to attend this event...
4 min read. We were young. We were exiled from a land we left when young or that we were not born in but that we...
8 min read. In December 2010, my mother was admitted to an established private hospital in Nairobi for what we considered a routine surgery. This surgical...
6 min read. In my country Kenya, being a ‘youth’ officially ends on attaining 35 years. Once one gets to this age, you are no longer...
6 min read. We cope with the oppressive system of Capitalism by eating our children’s futures before eating them alive. Grace Ogot captures us in her...
7 min read. The little girl, knees buckling, made it to the grass verge and set down her twenty-litre jerrycan. The year is 2016. Nothing says...
8 min read. The 2017 elections remain one of the most contested, memorable and divisive elections in the history of Kenya. The second elections under the...
9 min read. “Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent” ~ Glen Cook Before the Friday, March 9, 2018 famous handshake between President Uhuru...
5 min read. I wanted to write about sex. My theory was that Kenyans are having more of it. It is one of the ways we...
8 min read. So here you are, Too foreign for home, Too foreign for here, Never enough for both’ ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo When I acquiesced to...
