SITAWA NAMWALIE is a Kenyan poet, playwright, and performer known for her unique dramatised performances that combine poetry and traditional Kenyan music. Before she became a performance artist, she w…
I have never been a fan of kiss-and-tell stories. I find them distasteful and dishonest. I don’t understand how anybody can be intimate with someone one minute and tell the world about it the next. Wh…
A running joke in Kenya today is that if you have a one thousand shilling note you should not bother picking up a shopping cart, what you can afford can fit snugly in your hands. Fun as it is to crack…
Gossip
Stop being rude. Stop asking people invasive questions and giving them unsolicited advice to their faces. Instead, go over there and gossip about them with your friends. Dissect their choic…
2022 is coming to an end and the year’s comic conventions ushered it out with a bang.
Nairobi Comic Con on the 19th and 20th of November and Movie Jabber Expo on the 3rd of December came in r…
In the early 1970s, a group of women in Boston, USA, began sharing their stories around the ill-treatment they felt they had received from male doctors. Their stories ranged from being misdiagnosed to…
In 2014, while I was headed out to attend the first edition of the Nairobi Comic Con at the Village Market, my parents asked me where I was going and what I was going to do there. Now as this was my f…
It is easier for me to strike a football conversation with a total stranger across a bar table than with my next door neighbour, with whom I haven't had more than monosyllabic guttural acknowledgment …
Them Mushrooms band are arguably Kenya’s most iconic band who have placed the country on the global scene thanks to their catchy slogan ‘Hakuna Matata’ that originates from their smash hit ‘Jambo Bwan…
I don’t usually go home for Christmas. By home I mean Meru, to my mother’s house. I typically spend the holidays in Nairobi, enjoying the traffic-free streets, in a collective stupor with everyone els…
