Over the last six years, data collected by the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) puts…
Every Friday moon, the basement of The Mall in Westlands is transformed from plain unpainted walls & pipes to an underground watering hole for niche electronic and alternative music connoisseurs and artists titled ‘The Mist’. The Mist is a weekly basement rave providing…
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Over the last six years, data collected by the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) puts…
It’s the new year and for most people that means goal-setting time. Not me though,…
“Authority assigned to a State officer is a public trust…” Article 73 (1) of the…
Within weeks of President William Ruto taking office, there were reports of the police being…
In October 2022, shortly after he assumed office, President William Ruto told officials of the…
“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…
Football or soccer is a strange sport. Put two teams of eleven each and a…
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…
When the Goldenberg scandal was exposed in the early 1990s, Kenyans thought they had seen…
The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) surely need reprieve from constant violence…
As often happens, the collapse of a building in Kasarani was just another trending story,…
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,…
Since the commencement of the 13th Kenyan Parliament, it has been raining constitutional amendment bills.…
At the time of writing this, I have been in Kenya for 72 days. Contrary…
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…
Still remaining uncontroverted are grave allegations in sworn affidavits by soon to be retired (IEBC)…
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…
I just spent an idyllic three days in Homa Bay County by the shores of…
Much has been made of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Kenyan roots, with some comparing…
The Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides any Kenyan with the right to propose its rehabilitation.…
PEOPLE
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Traffic on Landhies Road is flowing smoothly when I cross at Nacico Plaza. I have…
On Google Images, Nairobi is a city with stories of a built environment. Occasionally the…
One problem with adulting, is that we forget what Christmas really meant to our younger selves. I remember Christmas as that time of the year when the sun
One of the holidays I will never forget is Christmas of 2015. It left me…
POLITICS
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The Sergeants-at-Arms is appointed by the President, and is usually recruited from senior ranks in security agencies and administration.
After the notification by the President, the Clerks of the Senate and National Assembly officially communicated the same to the elected representatives…
After Moses Wetangula was officially sworn in as the 8th Speaker in the history of…
On Thursday 8 September 2022, Moses Masika Wetangula became the 8th Speaker of the National…
WOMEN
“When the body is healthy, the vagina is healthy,” Dr Muthembwa explained. This means that maintaining your overall bodily health helps to maintain your vaginal health.
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
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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?
