Last year, I happened to attend an anonymous music festival where I was a personal witness to the light-year speed at which jaba juice flew off the shelves. Despite the fact that jaba juice was ubiqui…
The first time I tried jaba juice, it was a green-pulpy mess in a shot glass that glued my buttcheeks to the toilet seat for what seemed like an eternity of diarrhea; no end in sight. Thereafter, I re…
This interview is one of a series where CHIA KAYANDA sits down with globally recognized Kenyan artists who have found success away from home yet tend to go rather underrecognized here, in Kenya. …
I remember where I was on the day that the results of the Lamu Gubernatorial race were announced. Saturday 13 August 2022. I sat on the living room rug of my childhood home in Mombasa watching the vot…
Every Friday moon, the basement of The Mall in Westlands is transformed from plain unpainted walls & pipes to an underground watering hole for niche electronic and alternative music connoisseurs a…
You should know, I listen to music in two very distinct ways. The first way is sponsored by the art of Crate Digging, to feed my DJ ears (I DJ under the moniker BBYY. On The Island, maybe I should hav…
2015 almost 2016: Follow Mowgli
My brother ran over a kid. That’s how our New Year season began. A baby goat though, I should clarify, not a human child.
Big brother was driving us to Kil…
Imagine this. A world where the physical realm and the virtual realm blend into one. Where the limitations of the mortal flesh and solid ground are erased in favour of the surrealist terrain of a 3D a…
Sunday evening. 11 November 2022. Jain Bhavan Auditorium, Loresho.
Par Can lights glimmer starkly above the cast standing hip to hip. Hand in hand. Crew members in a horizontal file behind th…
