Shadow and Axed
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
The implications of the ICC dropping the cases against Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto and former journalist Joshua Arap Sang.
Kimati's image has long stood in, symbolically, for the ideals and lost hopes of revolutionary decolonization in Kenya.
The Mathare Social Justice Center's activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.
Kenyans choose to forget that the Kenya Land and Freedom army (also known as Mau Mau) did not fight for a monument. They fought for land.
Why US President Barack Obama blundered by speaking out on LGBTQ rights in Kenya.
The denial of a gay Kenyan existence is an affront to the Kenyan LGBTQ community, their talents, hopes and aspirations
A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.
The writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
April. The month of the long rains was upon us, and with its compulsive deluge flowed
Why the wall Kenya is building on its border with Somalia is a terrible idea.
For the past couple of months, I’ve only been able to get out posts on a
One week ago, one hundred and forty seven/147 young adults met their death at the hands
"I want to go to a place ... where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963."--Binyavanga Wainaina.
For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.
How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.
A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
“Twitter is going to change Kenya!” I declared in my presentation. We’d just set up a