The Tectonic Shift in Kenya’s Creative Economy
The question is no longer whether you are gifted. The question is whether your creativity is organized enough to attract opportunity, partnerships, funding and long-term sustainability.
Notes on Slowing Down and Sipping Coffee
Greetings, friends, This week we are continuing our tradition of inviting members of our community to write from The Curator’s Desk, and […]
A Million Men’s Waste
The resilience that these Nairobians, even if they are surrounded by garbage, literally and figuratively, is something to be admired, even as we keep fighting for better waste management by the county government and better conditions for the workers.
Notes On Doing Your Part
The mission was never the hashtag. The mission was the shift from disengagement to participation.
I Exist And Therefore I Write
Words, as Maya Angelou reminds us live on in the spaces we leave behind and the ones we step into. This World Poetry Day, we celebrate the power of poetry to express and to connect us across cultures and communities.
Women-Proofing the Internet: The Need for More Robust Legal Protections for Women against TFGBV
Whenever a space presents hazards for vulnerable groups that are entitled to use and access a space, it is prudent to put in place measures to ensure that these vulnerable groups can navigate the space safely.
Reckoning With the Digital Economy of Misogyny
Some people don’t just dislike women; they monetise that dislike. I got on to the internet, especially social media, a little earlier […]
Art as Agency: Thayù on Creativity, GBV, and Community-Led Change
There is a problem with gender, and gendered power dynamics. You can call it sexism or patriarchy or entitlement or a male loneliness problem – the fact still remains, the imbalance or lack is stark.
FREE ME
Based on her own experience, FREE ME follows one woman from teenager to survivor, through a relationship that promised love, but delivered brutality – played by a sterling cast comprising Nungari Kiore, Renee Gichuki, Joan Cherono, Ella Maina, and Gathoni Maina. The original work that sparked this production was initially researched and written by Magunga Williams.
Being: By Almasi Eva
The fragility of art.
Perspective: By Stephen Ngoli
I promise your perspective is the narrative you buy Stories that you tell yourself to find some calm and get by
14 Men on a Journey: By William Ogutu
14 men on a journey On a tarred double lane To a journey far and beyond Where the sky and land meet […]