Kabubu Mutua
Frank Njugi
Kabubu Mutua’s work reveals a writer who is keen on telling Kenyan stories. His work explores the nuances of life in Kenya through the lens
Kabubu Mutua’s work reveals a writer who is keen on telling Kenyan stories. His work explores the nuances of life in Kenya through the lens
On pranic healing and why alternative forms of treatment are gaining more traction globally.
Nike may have said it first, but I remember a friend saying these words to me one evening when I told her I was waiting for motivation before I adjusted a few things in my life…
In 1982, a young Irish priest arrived in Kenya to take up his first missionary posting in the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar in Turkana. FATHER
A stand-up comedian, comedy writer, filmmaker, and satirist proficient in dark and observational humor. She has been featured on prominent stand-up shows such as Nairobi International Comedy Festival, Spare My Ribs, Laugh Act To Follow, Comedy Riot, and Because You Said So! and has appeared on Showmax’s Roast House and Comedy Riot.
“Rebranding as an artist means that I get to take centre stage of the creative process and the art in projects I embark on.”
Home can be a steady ground when life shifts. Cutting ties has consequences and takes more effort than expected. Leaving felt like falling into a black hole, relentless in its purge. I’ve witnessed mothers hating their children and the ways people ask what they did wrong. But I am me. I see, I name. This community ignores its dark truths; they just don’t want them named. I want us to care.
On the state of politics and the economy in Kenya today from the “Iron Lady” of Kenyan Politics.
The word culture, as used and practiced by Hip Hop artists, shows me just how detached I am from the people who produced me, my fathers. It shows me the amount of debt I owe the people I have produced, my sons; my father calls me brother these days.As regards the incident I mentioned earlier; It gives me a perspective as to why my village folk, elegant in expression and strangers to verbosity, once in 2021 thought me a stranger and mistakenly branded me a child trafficker. I had used my father’s instead of my grandfather’s family name when asked about my identity after a teenager from my clan ran away from me while I was in an anxious state, a flight that almost cost me my life, had I not re-introduced myself as my grandfather’s son.
A series of interviews done over Instagram, voice notes and calls with beloved strangers. Each respondent is in conversation with Angel Lovely and in turn, in conversation with each other. This is a documentation of possibility and reality. Queer African folk on the continent mull on queer friendship and family. We get to live such lives. People like us can choose. You are dearly loved.
