Tag: people-spotlight
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How My First Period Snuck Up On Me
It was a bright sunny Tuesday afternoon, and there I was, sitting for my KCPE 1Kiswahili paper. Time was ticking, literally, because I was sitting at the front row, with the classroom clock directly in front of me, emphasising the passing of every second with its ticking and tocking. That said, I was in no…
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Colonel Mustapha and the Case for Universal Healthcare
If there’s one thing that Kenyans love it’s gossip, especially when that gossip is around a celebrity. Even better when that gossip is around something considered shameful or embarrassing. Is life even interesting if you didn’t hear that so and so did this or that and there are pictures or videos to prove it? Tapping…
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Surviving Nairobi As An African Immigrant
I slide and lean back on the leather seat watching my feet soak in a pedicure massager. It is a few minutes past 2 p.m. My eyes pace around the room on the fourth floor of a building on Nairobi’s Moi Avenue. As it tends to happen, the place is a salon, a barbershop and…
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My Journey In Islam, And How The World Views Us (Ramy)
Most contemporary Muslims face a complex and ongoing struggle to reconcile their faith in God with the many different aspects of their lives in the modern world. And for reverts, it is an especially important fight as we navigate the complexities of life and the newness of the religion while remaining true to our beliefs.…
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Seven Stories Of Dating Across Seven Decades
L.O.V.E. The four letters of character development. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. But how does dating and infatuation change with the times? Is the passion my parents experienced in the 80s, before the advent of DMs and Instagram stories, the same infatuation Gen Z experience? This is an exploration of dating in Kenya through…
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The Politics of Sports TV Rights
It is easier for me to strike a football conversation with a total stranger across a bar table than with my next door neighbour, with whom I haven’t had more than monosyllabic guttural acknowledgment whenever we happen to see each other, which is rare. A bar conversation finds common ground quickly even as we support…
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The Rise and Fall of Machakos Bus Station
Traffic on Landhies Road is flowing smoothly when I cross at Nacico Plaza. I have to dash across at the bump, where vehicles are forced to slow down to avoid a gaping pothole. Mali-Mali shops are just opening, dusting off Christmas decorations that are in season, including plastic Christmas trees and lengths of blinking lights…
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Remembering Harambee Stars’ Talismanic Jujuman
For a man who brought colour and pomp to matches featuring the national team Harambee Stars and his favourite club from western Kenya, AFC Leopards, it was unfortunate that he had to lose his life so crudely and cheaply; hacked to death by a machete-wielding gang outside his house like a common criminal. Isaac Juma…