5 min read. Through writing, he is getting a second chance at life. Self-motivation. Self-education. This resonates loudly with many of us who have been let...
6 min read. What a brief wondrous life! What a moving force! What an acceleration! He moved so frantically through life, ideas and spaces that it...
9 min read. We cannot think of our continent as a hostile place. Too many of us have learnt to fear it. And I feel that...
7 min read. The Kenya I grew up in felt isolated from the rest of the continent and the world. Kenyan writers were dissidents who lived...
8 min read. I don’t yet know how to make peace with the fact that I had a hand in legitimising probably the worst administration this...
8 min read. Western governments tell their people the same lies that are told to Africans by their own administrations. We are just as blinded and...
9 min read. Kondele neighbourhood in Kisumu is famous and infamous. It is a place torn between its cultural richness and vibrancy, as well the lurking...
9 min read. While the public debate on mental health is welcome, as a person recovering from a mental disorder, there is need to push a...
8 min read. Women’s oppression is the original human sin and has been normalised by most societies. But even for women, change had to come. Now...
8 min read. I was hardly thirteen when I was hurriedly married off to a 50-year-old man. I do not remember feeling more betrayed in my...