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If there’s one thing that Kenyans love it’s gossip, especially when that gossip is around a celebrity. Even better when that gossip is around something considered shameful or embarrassing. Is life even interesting if you didn’t hear that so and so did this…
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Today I am inserting my nose into married people’s business because I feel like if…
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It is mind-boggling that the Kenya Kwanza government believes it can get away with raiding…
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The Malindi doomsday cult is global news and the Kenyan Government is keen to catch…
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It is tragic that Mukami Kimathi, Dedan Kimathi’s widow, died last week aged 96 without…
You might have seen it. A sustained Twitter campaign by @HoneyFarsafi targeted at Nairobi County…
Nairobi has a long, complicated history with slums. Their origin, according to this handy inventory…
There’s a traffic accident reported every hour every day every year in Kenya. As a…
The tragic happenings at Mukumu Girls and Butere Boys schools in Kakamega have shed light…
The recent orchestrated “invasion” of land belonging to the Kenyatta family has once again highlighted…
It is a Sunday afternoon and the sun is playing hide and seek with a…
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The smell of Old Spice aftershave is one-of-a-kind. You could be dodging thieves and preachers…
My 20s were mostly employed on the political street beat with maandamanos that took place…
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On 20 April 2023, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk retired all legacy blue checkmarks. Musk…
A few months from now more than 1.5 million wildebeest will cross the crocodile-infested Mara…
In November 1978, James Warren Jones, an American preacher, orchestrated the mass murder by suicide…
As we engaged in unnecessary platitudes, it hit me; were it not for her distinguished…
The limits of free speech and political propaganda have just been made clearer in the…
It is unfortunate that Kenya lifted the ban on genetically modified (GMO) foods in October…
In November 2022, Akinyi, a domestic worker from Kariobangi, was thrown off the fourth floor…
Seven months after the 2022 general election, Kenyans are swimming in another deluge of misinformation.…
Raptors, the generic name for birds of prey, are hyper-carnivorous bird species that survive by…
The President of the Kenya Editors’ Guild recently called a press conference to allege that…
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Ever since Kenya was a republic, dominion, colony, or left alone the way its people…
My name is Soila Kenya and I have a confession. All the jokes you’ve just…
One of the ten demands made by the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader…
Among the demands that the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party (Azimio) made in…
I think it is quite disingenuous of opposition leader Raila Odinga and his supporters to…
15 years ago, in January 2007, Nairobi hosted the World Social Forum at the Moi…
I wasn’t always good at it, but now I’m good at being single. I know…
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Our history shows that mass action works where there is a generalised belief that the…
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A judgement by the Supreme Court of Kenya allowing members of the LGBTQ+ community in…
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“The state is not God. It has no right to give away that which it…
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I had a conversation with a friend recently. He wanted to start dating again. “I…
A former British politician once told me “Decoys and distractions are a government’s number one…
“The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.”…
Parents of young Black men in the United States live with constant fear, wondering whether…
We are living in strange times. Scrolling through the Twitter handle of Dr. David Ndii…
There are national subjects that require assemblage of evidence and closure. The land settlement deals…
I’ve been renting in Nairobi for nine years now, and in that time I have…
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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what…
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President William Ruto gave his first full media interview as head of state soon after…
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Over the last six years, data collected by the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) puts…
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Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai and a few social media influencers have started boosting an alleged…
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“The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” – Milan…
Clearly, there is an appetite for accountability for the riotous scenes at the Bomas of…
I have never been a fan of kiss-and-tell stories. I find them distasteful and dishonest.…
“Imagine a lawyer or doctor with dreadlocks.” – Peter Kaluma, MP Homa Bay Town Constituency. What…
Stop being rude. Stop asking people invasive questions and giving them unsolicited advice to their…
I don’t usually go home for Christmas. By home I mean Meru, to my mother’s…
And so, it is set to end. Finally the holidays are here, schools out and Kenyans are headed for a much needed break.
Recently, the two gentlemen at the top of Kenya’s executive have expressed contrasting views on…
The “So what are you doing for Christmas?” messages have started streaming in and my body is slowly clenching day by day.
I have lived in and travelled to various cities around the world since I was…
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In a previous incarnation, when I was a globe-trotting United Nations official, I was constantly…
Do you remember your parent ever warning you not to touch the cookie jar until…
Lee Njiru has written a memoir sprinkled with humour, full of personal insights into the…
How does the Kenyan mainstream hivemind treat people who are into comics and animation? Horribly.…
Our thirteenth Parliament has well and truly begun work, and whatever honeymoon period may have…
When I walked into my first class at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology…
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The World Cup is the football tournament I gladly set aside time for. It is…
Remember those multiple choice questions in school? Here is one for you. The difference is,…
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A few weeks ago, a Kenyan social media influencer advertised break up classes. Ms Lydia…
Almost every year, the United Nations and humanitarian agencies declare a ‘famine’ in Somalia. This…
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I shouldn’t be writing about this with such brevity – because it deserves a solid…
A riot of colorful hats and flags, exuberant dancing, and the Vuvuzelas, (those rasping, meter-long…
Instagram boutiques have me in a chokehold. I can’t help it, I spend an embarrassing…
Why does it seem like we have been here before? Students being given homework to…
The call by activists to throw Iran out of the upcoming World Cup finals in…
“There is no handbook for incoming first ladies… It’s not technically a job, nor is…
I know that former US President Barack Obama included Sampa the Great’s Energy in his…
To clarify, I mean a married woman who you are married to, and you’re trying…
Kenya’s Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen posted two 2014 loan contracts between Kenya and the Exim Bank of…
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PEOPLE
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I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression on 17 January 2020. The first two drugs…
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Guyana, 1974. Nearly a thousand worshippers at the People’s Temple Of The Disciples of Christ…
I slide and lean back on the leather seat watching my feet soak in a…
POLITICS
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For the second time since Raila Odinga chose to lead his supporters in street protests…
During Kenya’s darkest hour in 2007/2008 when Kenyans lived through the most devastating bout of…
Few things mesmerize Kenyan politicians the way religious gatherings do. During the one party state,…
In the last one month, former South African president Thabo Mbeki has done two things…
WOMEN
If I told you the lady stepping out of the Audi Q7 dressed in a…
Few things elicit sharp reactions like discussing a woman’s body and what she can or cannot do with it.
The World Health Organization reported in 2018 that every two minutes a woman dies of this preventable cancer…
Tea made from specific plants has traditionally been given to women for various vaginal ailments, and these same herbs are…
Gender-Based Violence is one of the most persistent violations of human rights across the globe and has been reported to be much higher within marginalized populations.
POP CULTURE
DEBUNKED
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Lake Baringo’s water levels have been rising over the past couple of months following heavy rainfall. Many residents have been left homeless, with businesses that once flourished now drowned slowly by the lake’s waters. Schools and hospitals, the very lifeline of this town, no longer in operation.
Between April and June 2020, 1.7 million Kenyans lost their jobs.
Are tectonic movements at the Rift Valley to blame for the lake’s rising water levels? How are the animals surviving these changes?
FACT CHECK
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A list circulating on Facebook purportedly showing 28 public secondary schools that are to be…
A digital card bearing KBC digital branding and quoting Archbishop Anthony Muheria seemingly criticizing President…
A tweet that claims the government has allocated KSh2.7 billion to the Higher Education Loans…
A digital card bearing the logo and social media template of Kamba Insights —a news…
A Twitter user posted a photo that he claimed showed police vehicles outside the former…
A video being shared on TikTok shows a convoy of motor vehicles moving past a…
A video circulating on Facebook that shows President William Ruto being rebuked at the African…
A video shared on TikTok showing President William Ruto lecturing Azimio coalition members of parliament…
Recently, President William Ruto told Kenyans that the country must find savings of KSh 300…
