Author: Wakìnì Njogu
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Kenya’s Mounting Crisis of Unemployment
Between April and June 2020, 1.7 million Kenyans lost their jobs.
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How Kenyan Workers are Trafficked Abroad.
Kenya is a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking. There have been many reports over the years about Kenyans migrant workers being mistreated in the Gulf States, especially those in the domestic sector. Debunk takes a look at how the recruitment agencies work, trafficking routes, and the government’s involvement in countering trafficking.
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Freedom too Far? Edgar Obare and the Era of Doxing
Kenyan vlogger Edgar Obare, popularly known as the ‘TeaMaster’ for the hot gossip he shares on his social media accounts, recently found himself on the receiving end of law enforcement after he shared travel visa details of Natalie Tewa, another vlogger. His arrest on July 30 caused public debate on the increasingly common habit of…
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Edgar Obare and the Era of Doxing
Kenyan vlogger Edgar Obare, popularly known as the ‘TeaMaster’ recently found himself on the receiving end of law enforcement after he shared travel visa details of Natalie Tewa, another vlogger. We explore this habit of sharing private information maliciously, referred to as doxing, and what the Kenyan law says.
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Policing The Virus
In the first weeks of Kenya’s dusk-to-dawn curfew against Coronavirus, police killed more people than the virus, and by the time we inched towards the second month marker the killings and brutality had become so brazen that President Uhuru Kenyatta had to step in and apologise to Kenyans. Wakini Njogu examines the relationship between poverty…