We will send an insult to your mum
The Mathare Social Justice Center's activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.
Kenya
A Monument for the Mau Mau at last, but no land
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.
The politics of homophobia in Kenya
Why US President Barack Obama blundered by speaking out on LGBTQ rights in Kenya.
Kenyan gays want their rights
The denial of a gay Kenyan existence is an affront to the Kenyan LGBTQ community, their talents, hopes and aspirations
The Obama Sevens
A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.
Let Kenyan planes fly
The writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.
Africa, in a state of constant self-discovery
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
The Kenyan version of the war on terror
Why the wall Kenya is building on its border with Somalia is a terrible idea.
Memorializing all Kenya’s terror victims
"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.
How to make sense of #Garissa
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.
The Venice Hustle
How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.
On The Way to School
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.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Hawa Essuman
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
#MyDressMyChoice
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
Five Questions for: Filmmaker Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann
Filmmaker Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann sees film as a powerful tool to inspire compassion by briefly letting us live another’s life and expand our understanding.
Ali Mazrui and Me
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.