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How popular books ‘dull our minds’ instead of building resistance
Panellists shared how social media has made us have “brain rot”. It has shaped our perceptions and ideologies and made us rely on small talk and conversations that don’t…
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Book Reviews
Hints of Baba: Tendo’s ‘Rough Silk’ wins TBC runners-up award
Spanning 69 years, Rough Silk traces the life of George Auko—a man whose very birth feels steeped in myth. When Achieng Nyongalo gives birth beneath the Otho tree, her…
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Reclaiming memory: Women’s role in liberation struggle retold at Africa Forward Fest
In many ways, the festival became a space where women’s contributions to liberation movements were repositioned from the margins to the centre. Rather than appearing as…
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Kinama’s vow to act on his turbulent lifestyle
Perhaps, after all, he had been in love with her despite her loose life. Such a beautiful woman, he lamented. Her voice haunted him, Oh Jona, you’re such a wonderful man…
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Africa Forward Fest goes beyond the literary festival format
From 7 to 9 May, the Alliance Française de Nairobi will host the fifth edition of Africa Forward Fest, now expanded into a pan-African platform that brings together…
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Banking hall musings of a civil servant
Now I have become a man, he thought. Dear Eve, where is that Ema now so we can play darts together? But his mind could not dwell on one thought for a minute anymore. Why…
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Whose Right to Life? Reading Kenya’s Abortion Ruling Through Mad Women
Last week, while writing about Joan Thatiah’s Mad Women, I returned again and again to Zawadi, a young woman whose life ends after a clandestine abortion in a…
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Drugged or dumped? To keep the pregnancy or not, that is the question
These are not just stories, they are recognisable and lived realities. The topic of abortion remains a hushed one spoken in codes and euphemisms on platforms like…
Pushing the threat of immediate action between the jaws of death
The CS Interior had termed the exercise an internal affair, which was still at a premature stage, and claimed that bringing the matter to light would only help fan…
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'Rough Silk' launch turns out more of a cultural than literary extravaganza
In a region where loss, resilience, and survival are tightly interwoven, stories such as Rough Silk carry a particular weight. They speak not only to personal journeys…
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Bill’s determination to return home a dignified citizen and not as a fugitive
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights claimed it had received preliminary information from an anonymous witness that the Kenya Defence…
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UN accuses Kenya of covering up military injustices in El Adde, not compensating victim families
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights claimed it had received preliminary information from an anonymous witness that the Kenya Defence…