#DoctorsDiary: A Patient Walks into Hospital with a Black Snake at 2.00 AM
I have inserted one chest tube, two catheters and stitched four guys including one extremely drunk one who kept calling me mother’s buttocks. It...
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How Kenneth Kaunda made Zambia a ‘Christian’ Nation
Singing 'Tiyende pamodzi' conjures up in the Christian imagination, ideas of finding ‘the way’, ‘journeying’ and being on a ‘pilgrimage’.
The Snake
The kid saw it first. Everyone else was busy talking and sipping tea when the kid suddenly cried out,”Snake!” The father leapt up, swift,...
River Nyando Floods and Chinese Wars Over the Koru-Soin Dam Project
As the two Chinese firms fight over the Koru-Soin dam tender, taxpayers are suffering: their houses submerged, property destroyed, agricultural produce washed away, schools closed, learning disrupted, and thousands of households displaced, surviving under the mercy of emergency relief.
David Ndii’s Amnesty For Past Corruption Cases in Kenya is a Bad Idea
Amnesties for corruption will fuel impunity and undermine the rule of law. It is a bad idea and should be met with utmost resistance.
Young Love Puts Girl Behind Bars: Somaliland’s Juvenile Justice System
Mona Liban meets the children who are being locked up while government officials take their time trying to update Somaliland’s youth detention system.
Two Dead Chicks
A young boy joins his friends for what he hopes will be a random day of swimming and mischief. When events take a turn for the worse, everyone is on their own as the inevitable wrath of mothers threatens their very lives.
DMX, A Rap Legend, Dies at 50
In 1998 DMX released two albums in the same calendar year — both debuting at No.1 on the Billboard 2000, marking the start of a two-decade iconic career beset by struggles with drug addiction, legal troubles, and family troubles.
The Man Who Fishes Dead Bodies
She doesn’t walk to him to inquire what has happened. It is a taboo for pregnant women to see drowned bodies otherwise the spirits roaming the river would enter her womb and inhabit the unborn.
Khaligraph Jones and Emerging Hip Hop Futures in Kenya
Kenya’s hip hop scene has been nothing but a graveyard of mixtapes which – while offering a glimpse at the spirit and experimentation – deny listeners the beauty of intention, coherence, and completeness.
Ukoo Flani Mau Mau –The Disappearing Acts of a Hip Hop Dynasty
The hip hop group bequeathed Kenya a unique and identifiable hip hop soundscape, and their oeuvre remains the only most studied by urban music archaeologists, but what happened?
The Parkroad Boys
Parkroad Estate. This is where Maurice Odumbe and Steve Tikolo grew up, the greatest players in Kenya’s cricket history.
The Toll of Covid-19 and Glimpses of Progress in South Africa
Grieving the loss of a loved one during the Covid-19 pandemic became a curse and burden.
Dystopian Futures: Can Robots Be Moral?
Optimists talk of a future where instead of having human beings facing each other across a battlefield, belligerents in a battle will simply deploy their robotic troops to destroy one another.
