OYUNGA PALA mourns the loss of indigenous crops and farming methods that were buried by capitalist modes of production that focus mainly on high yields and...
It was the women of that time that intrigued me most and I was watching their lives with the impatient envy of a child. I wanted...
Too often we are willing to believe that if we are calm enough, if we are silent enough, polite enough, eloquent enough, poised enough, then the...
I want, like you, to steadily and surely offend anything that stands in the way of freedom, of liberation, of love, of justice, of truth, of...
Where do you start when you only went to school up to Class 5 and you belong to a culture where women have no right to...
In the Bible study I attend in one of the mega-churches in Nairobi, not once have I had instances where the Bible verses we discuss reflect...
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...
