In November 1978, James Warren Jones, an American preacher, orchestrated the mass murder by suicide of more than 900 people in a remote jungle commune in Guyana, South America. As founder of the Peopl…
As we engaged in unnecessary platitudes, it hit me; were it not for her distinguished raspy and deep voice, Fartuun would have been unrecognizable to me. Despite her calling me a nickname only privy t…
The limits of free speech and political propaganda have just been made clearer in the United States where Dominion, a vote machine manufacturer has just settled a defamation suit against Fox News for …
Most contemporary Muslims face a complex and ongoing struggle to reconcile their faith in God with the many different aspects of their lives in the modern world. And for reverts, it is an especially i…
Clang Clang
Every origin story has a soundtrack. This is mine.
It’s the year 2000. I’ve just sat my KCPE and the whole world is ahead of me. I spend a lot of time at the base where …
Before becoming a Muslim, I would cover my hair from time to time with headscarves - mostly on bad hair days or when I thought it looked good with my outfit of the day. So, when we started the new sem…
It is unfortunate that Kenya lifted the ban on genetically modified (GMO) foods in October last year without sufficient public participation (a constitutional requirement) or debate on whether the gro…
In November 2022, Akinyi, a domestic worker from Kariobangi, was thrown off the fourth floor of an apartment building in Kiamaiko by her employer after she accused her of having stolen KSh 20,000.&nbs…
In the last one month, former South African president Thabo Mbeki has done two things that have brought him back into the maelstrom that is his country’s politics, not as a rubble rouser but as that r…
