I slide and lean back on the leather seat watching my feet soak in a pedicure massager. It is a few minutes past 2 p.m. My eyes pace around the room on the fourth floor of a building on Nairobi’s Moi …
The apartment block on State House Road in Milimani doesn’t just appear. It unfolds, slowly, revealing the prototypical colonial architecture; walls made of hand-carved stone, clay roofing tiles and l…
If I told you the lady stepping out of the Audi Q7 dressed in a floral sheer kimono and burnt orange palazzo pants is a survivor of FGM, you most probably won’t believe me. Like in Shakespeare’s Hamle…
The courtroom was empty. Gleaming wood-panelled walls, a black leather seat on the bench and a door leading to the judge's chamber stared back at me.
I stepped out to check if I was in the ri…
I have never been claustrophobic. But in the swell of humans and their earthly chattels on this morning bus, I felt anxiety rise inside my chest. Then I remembered. I was going home.
For buses, as …
“I know how to get cheap alcohol in Qatar,” Brian, my Uber driver said in response to my sympathies for those attending the dry World Cup in Qatar. “As for the quality of the booze, I will let you and…
The Tragedy. 11 August 2017, Kisumu
Baby Samantha Pendo‘s life was short, her death abrupt and painful.
That way, Samantha Pendo became a metaphor of Kenya’s 2017 electoral violence.
Da…
In one of his most categorical commitments since coming to power, President William Ruto has promised the National Police Service (NPS) complete autonomy, but first some changes.
The new gove…
