No One Is Talking About This
Greetings, friends:The New York Times last weekend published a front piece spread, “Haiti’s Lost Billions” (headlined in print as “The Ransom”) chronicling […]
Twitter Narratives
By Farah Khaleck Chaudry This week’s newsletter is continuing the tradition of inviting members of our community to write From The Curator’s […]
McMillan’s Missing Bits
When I was 17 years old and just out of high school, I had this fabulous idea that I would spend my […]
The Haunting Soul of Nairobi
by Eddy Ashioya Everything is a mess. And by everything, I mean Nairobi. And by a mess, I still mean Nairobi. I […]
Complications of PR
I started out in journalism (several!) years ago, and after a while it became apparent to me that there were basically two […]
Not Your Cheerleader
The 2022 general elections in Kenya are just months away, and there’s increasing talk of voter “apathy”, “, especially among the youth”. […]
Climate Hypocrisy
This week, I came across a blog post on the Center for Global Development that highlighted, in stark terms, the vast inequality […]
The Trauma Of Content Moderation
One of my all-time favourite TV shows is Black Mirror, that exquisite show exploring the disturbing side of technology set in a […]
Go To Work, Get Your Money, Go Home
I hope you’re having a good first week of the month. I’ve been thinking about an article I read in The New […]
New Year, New Things
Welcome to our first Barua Ya Baraza of 2022, and happy new year – I insist, the year is still new. I […]
Last One For 2021
The year is already over! It’s been a great year of big wins and humbling losses, but at the end of it, […]
Two Years of Baraza
It’s been two years already since we launched Baraza Media Lab! That December in 2019, it felt like both the culmination of […]