Category: People
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Debunk Speaks To Kabubu Mutua
Kabubu Mutua’s work reveals a writer who is keen on telling Kenyan stories. His work explores the nuances of life in Kenya through the lens of characters inspired by his upbringing in Machakos County. In 2022, Kabubu was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Peters Fraser and Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize for his novel…
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Debunk Speaks To Ann McCreath
On pranic healing and why alternative forms of treatment are gaining more traction globally.
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This Is How I Ditched Procrastination
Nike may have said it first, but I remember a friend saying these words to me one evening when I told her I was waiting for motivation before I adjusted a few things in my life…
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Debunk Speaks To Gabriel Dolan
In 1982, a young Irish priest arrived in Kenya to take up his first missionary posting in the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar in Turkana. FATHER GABRIEL DOLAN couldn’t have come to the country at a more challenging time; President Daniel arap Moi was tightening the screws on all forms of opposition to his rule, and…
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Debunk Speaks To Justine Wanda
Justine Wanda is a stand-up comedian, comedy writer, filmmaker, and satirist proficient in dark and observational humor. She has been featured on prominent stand-up shows such as Nairobi International Comedy Festival, Spare My Ribs, Laugh Act To Follow, Comedy Riot, and Because You Said So! and has appeared on Showmax’s Roast House and Comedy Riot.…
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Debunk Speaks To Analo Kanga
Saxophonist & singer Analo Kanga shares her musical journey & the creation of her debut EP ‘Analogies’.
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My Home Buries Bodies
Home can be a steady ground when your life is shifting sands. It is to me at least. Cutting lineages from your skin has consequences. It takes effort. It takes more bleeding than you think possible. Takes ritualistic return to truths that sometimes feel like a lie. It sometimes means walking around with no ground…
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Debunk Speaks to Martha Karua
On the state of politics and the economy in Kenya today from the “Iron Lady” of Kenyan Politics.
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Idumi Irakuduma. Manhood Undoes Itself
We owe the people who produced us, our communities, more than just the Black tax we sometimes remit every end month. I, for one, owe my Mama a foot massage, my Guga home baked banana bread, my Baba a love poem, members of my age set a reunion, and the culture given to me, Tiriki,…
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Debunk Speaks To Beloved Strangers
(Koko, Udo, Karwitha, Mercy, Kabi and Waiyaki) Conversations With Queer Africans On Family and Friendship A series of interviews done over Instagram, voice notes and calls with beloved strangers. Each respondent is in conversation with Angel Lovely and in turn, in conversation with each other. This is a documentation of possibility and reality. Queer African…