Who Was Rasna Warah?
Ras Mengesha
From writing pithy op-eds to her wide ranging analysis, to her fiction and nonfiction, nothing will shine a light on who Rasna Warah was more than reading her writing.
From writing pithy op-eds to her wide ranging analysis, to her fiction and nonfiction, nothing will shine a light on who Rasna Warah was more than reading her writing.
For a brief moment in 2003, my favourite musician, E-Sir, would come back from the dead. It had been a
My mother’s answer leaves me disappointed when I ask her about the musician whose cassettes we listened to every Saturday morning. I want her to say Pastor Faustin Munishi because that is the story I have in my head: my mother, the weekend, chores, laughter, music, Munishi. But she says, blankly, as she goes about her business, Apostle Kyande. Her answer is correct, just not the one I wanted.
It’s the year 2003. We spend all our free time in [Redacted] Boys High School huddled up listening to Kiss
Every origin story has a soundtrack. This is mine. It’s the year 2000. I’ve just sat my KCPE and the
Late one July night in 2020, I clicked on a link that someone had shared on Twitter. I do not
I didn’t buy as many records as I should have until I moved to Colombia. The last record I bought was Reggae Greats: Gregory Isaacs Live at a flea market in Edinburgh. Records in Nairobi were too expensive for a broke, recently graduated writer. By 2020, I had about 22 records found almost accidentally on various trips. And then the pandemic was announced. By the time I was going to Pereira, one year later, I had over 100 records.
Reverence is recognisable. You see it when it is there, and here, as the MC does his best to calm
Writing letters to girls was a common ritual in my school. Unless you were a loser, everybody had those writing pads with pink flowers running around the margin, and perfume specifically picked for spritzing your letters before sending them out.
