Even for those who are educated, it is still uncomfortable as we are taught to regard parts of our bodies as ‘bad manners’. We grow up...
We wore our abuse as a badge: we were Maseno, meaning we were harder than you. We could take more beatings than you. Our school motto—‘Perseverance...
The hope and goodwill of poor Kenyans is the currency that has kept the criminally negligent government of Kenya afloat. And this hope cannot be allowed...
Our main mistake has been to believe that we are free and that the government and its horde of politicians work for the good of every...
There is an art dedicated to mending broken things. It mends broken things by filling the cracks and spaces with gold, silver, or platinum. The Japanese...
When we grow up in a religious nation, a huge part of our identity rests on religion/faith/God, whatever you wish to call it. When this is...
Trusting one’s body, and one’s experience of the world is not celebrated or even tolerated in the formal education forced on Africa through missionary and colonial...
My mind had failed me so many times I could no longer trust the ideas it put forth, no matter how brilliant or mundane they were....
To be Kenyan is to be constantly re-traumatized by the institutions and structures that we inhabit, and having been dehumanized we proceed to unleash low-grade terrors...
Queerness is found in the small, liberatory worlds we are creating even in this tyrannical here and now, not something far off and definitely never something...
It is so absurd, to the extent that without an ID, one cannot legally die, which is what happened to my father. He does not have...
When I thought about it, it dawned on me, that everyone was guilty of some offence. If you were driving and in motion, a traffic violation....