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Kenyans Aren’t Making Love Anymore, Mr. President
“Wanawake saa hizi hata kushuka hatushuki . . . Hatuna muda hata wa kuenjoy na kina baba nyumbani, kwa ajili kila siku unawaza watoto watakula nini . . . kama baba ni dereva, mwenye gari ameuza (gari) kwa sababu mafuta imepanda bei. Kwa hivyo wewe mama ukabangaize ulete mboga, ukaokote mahindi yanayotoka border ya Tanzania…
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A Relentless Wave of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Is Here
For the third time now — 2014 being the first time a version of it was passed — Ugandan lawmakers have passed the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The bill in its 2023 form was first tabled in the country’s parliament on 9 March, and was passed nearly-unanimously (387 out of 389 MPs) on 22 March and…
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Family Is Plasticine. Do We Have A Choice?
To the children of families, you no longer call yours, This note was written to me by someone that held my heart with care. I never saw her again but it didn’t matter. They were one of the first people that would hold my truths as truths. Some of us know the violence born in…
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Maandamano As Political Mandamus (Misusing On The State Of The People And Their State)
“The revolution Will not be Televised” – Gill Scott Heron Inasmuch as I do not exactly consider myself a logophile, words and word play have always intrigued me. Perhaps that is where my love for poetry, rhyme, and real-HipHop, early 90s especially, comes from. I enjoy it especially when words from different languages with similar…
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Cults Flourish In Times Of Intellectual and Moral Collapse
In November 1978, James Warren Jones, an American preacher, orchestrated the mass murder by suicide of more than 900 people in a remote jungle commune in Guyana, South America. As founder of the People’s Temple, a doomsday cult, Jones managed to convince his followers to kill themselves by drinking punch laced with cyanide. About 70…
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Thinking of Education With Trio Mio
Late one July night in 2020, I clicked on a link that someone had shared on Twitter. I do not remember the contents of the tweet, but I remember that it was during the pandemic and I had been staying up late because we were on summer break and I was anxious about how the…