It is tragic that Mukami Kimathi, Dedan Kimathi’s widow, died last week aged 96 without knowing her husband’s grave. For the last 66 years of her life, Mukami longed to give her husband a decent buria…
When Jessica ‘Jess’ Olago (26) made an uncomfortable matatu commute from Donholm to Westlands to attend her first cosplay event at NAICCON back in 2014 dressed up as the DC supervillain Joker, s…
You might have seen it. A sustained Twitter campaign by @HoneyFarsafi targeted at Nairobi County governor Johnson Sakaja to fix drainage in Korogocho, an informal settlement to the east of the city. T…
To the children of families, you no longer call yours,
You made the right decision
Your family is whoever you say it is.
You are loved.
Stay free
This note was written to me by someon…
My generation came of age with ace Congolese rhythm guitarist Lokassa ya M’bongo, the man who taught us how to dance, seduce girls, have fun on moonlit December nights; how to wear silk and visc…
Nairobi has a long, complicated history with slums. Their origin, according to this handy inventory of slums by Irene Karanja and Jack Makau, can be traced back to the refusal by colonialists to permi…
ABDULLAHI BULLE dabbled in many business ventures before deciding to start an online bookshop in December 2015, at a time when paper books were being replaced by e-books. He founded NuriaStore, an onl…
There’s a traffic accident reported every hour every day every year in Kenya. As a result of these hourly accidents, between 9 and 11 people die each day. During the same 24 hour period, a further 14 …
For the second time since Raila Odinga chose to lead his supporters in street protests primarily challenging William Ruto’s ascendancy to the presidency, Odinga’s Azimio La Umoja One Kenya and Ruto’s …
The tragic happenings at Mukumu Girls and Butere Boys schools in Kakamega have shed light once again on the state of boarding schools in our country. They come more than five years after the Moi …
