Kiswahili has not meant the same thing to all Africans everywhere at all times and so the ultimate desired goal behind the drive to adopt it...
Africa’s literary greats come together at a festival that refocuses African writing to rememory, memorialisation and remembering histories, and curating futures.
As Kenyans, we need to understand what culture is if we are to understand the importance of Utamaduni Day in our lives, and the need to...
The aspiration for common ground and common values is merely a delusion of those of military might. The less powerful retain a great deal of agency...
In this episode, we quantify through numbers, narratives, and anecdotes what was lost, how it was lost and where they are or could be located. We...
Culture is at the centre of the quest to resolve identity issues in Kenya’s arts scene. Artists and experts continue to dialogue on whether we have...
Because erasure of memory and culture is a condition for successful assimilation, the burial of African languages by Africans themselves has ensured their total immersion into...
Culture – the collective lived experience of a community – should be the basis of the construction of a nation. The constitution avers to this fact...
Shirandula gently managed to almost single-handedly give voice, representation, and nuance to the talented, pragmatic, modest, blue-collar masculine sub-archetypes that work in the shadows of capital...
Kiswahili has the potential to forge strong trading ties between the people of eastern, central and southern Africa and to promote cultural cohesion. If widely promoted...
Recent case studies have revealed that the creative industry can be a significant earner to an economy. However, as ALEX ROBERTS argues, Kenya’s languishing creative industry...
