Category: Profiles
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I can only say thank you to her
All you really want, when you get into the messy, highly guarded, ruthless world of writing, full of mostly unwarranted ego and an editor who hates you, is for someone to read you. Anyone, really. Of course you want to write for yourself, but you want someone else to agree with you. You want one…
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My Many Phone Calls With Rasna Warah
An unlikely sisterhood forms through hours-long phone calls.
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Finding and Losing Rasna Warah
Rasna Warah and her writing impacted generations. This is what she meant to Debunk.
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Who Was Rasna Warah?
From writing pithy op-eds to her wide ranging analysis, to her fiction and nonfiction, nothing will shine a light on who Rasna Warah was more than reading her writing.
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The One Thing You Should Read About Grace Onyango (1924-2023)
Had Grace Monica Akech Onyango never joined politics, her contribution to society would already have been immense. Onyango was a teacher; the first woman assistant commissioner of the Girl Guide Association; and chairperson of the Child Welfare Society’s Kisumu branch. But when she sauntered into politics, her impact became immeasurable. Reckoning with the magnitude of…
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Goodbye Big Flexa: Costa Titch (10 September 1995 – 12 March 2023)
Whenever she’s on leave from work, my cousin Amina will don a pair of Burberry sunglasses and jet set to the idyllic ocean city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her best friend is a DJ at a Billionaire’s club so she’s always guaranteed a great time. The minute her feet would land back on Kenyan…
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Chasing Umra: The Governor Lamu Almost Had
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 votes get counted on a TV that never saw darkness until the final votes were tallied and the…
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It’s Smokin, Not Smoking!
If you wish to be modest about your accomplishments, then that is well and good. But that isn’t Dr. Smokin Charles Wanjala’s portion…
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The Guy Who Went to Alliance
Justice Isaac Lenaola isn’t exactly your typical Alliance High School guy, the ones who never tire of reminding you that they went to Alliance.
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I Listen Louder
Ibrahim’s arrest shunted him deeper into the liberation movement and shaped his philosophy on working towards a just society.