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...
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. Erasure confines the work women do into a box which has nothing more than ‘women’s work’. Erasure makes us forget women who explicitly...
12 min read. The message was clear. If I wished to be treated right by a man, if I wanted pure unadulterated love and devotion, then...
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...
11 min read. Prior to Dr. Odhiambo Mbai’s death, the concept of being a Luo in Kenya, though occupying most of my early childhood, was abstract....
