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.
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 […]
Beyond One Man: Raila Odinga and the Burden of Kenya’s Democracy
Kenya laid to rest Raila Amolo Odinga. Known to many as Baba, Agwambo, and Jakom, he was a figure who stirred the nation’s conscience and redefined its democratic journey. On this Mashujaa Day, we are reminded that leadership and accountability must never rest in one pair of hands. They belong to all of us.
Inside the Data Storytelling Fellowship: Reflections On Migration
We asked a few Fellows to share where they are, how they’re navigating Data Storytelling Fellowship, and what this experience is teaching them. Here’s what they had to say;
Nakuru Shutter Stories: World Photography Day 2025
In Nakuru, photography has found its definition in the most basic forms of existence: random street stories, Prince Loo-Rugby Seven’s game, Maandamano, fundis hammering away at their workshops, birds in their natural habitats and general cultural documentation.
Utajua Haujui – The Year Kenya Fought Back
Community has been the lifeblood of this movement, binding us in ways that go beyond political unrest. From memes that gave us relief amid despair to cultural events honoring the fallen, art became both a balm and a battle cry. Musicians turned grief into protest anthems, plays like Too Early for Birds rekindled our collective memory of resistance, and poets gave words to our shared frustrations.
People, Power, and Protests: Reflecting on the Kenyan Protests and the Political Landscape
And yet, caring even more is what we must continue to do, if any of this is to stop. The only way we knew who was being taken was because we were documenting it, and their names, online and offline, constantly. The only way we were writing against these bills, whether or not they were enforced and implemented, was caring enough to write templates and become our mothers and aunties, sending it to any WhatsApp group that would listen.
This Is How Nairobi Is Fed.
Tom looks like a man whom you’d trust to feed you. He has a warm welcoming smile, and a very calm manner about him, like someone who knows what he needs to know and he is okay with that. And what Tom knows, is onions. He has his set up at Marikiti Market, the source of most of the food that Nairobi and its close environs eat.
Ghetto Classics
When you walk into the compound where Ghetto Classics in Korogocho is located, an energetic joy hits you. It’s loud and lively, and a large number of people in the compound are young, aged between pre-teens to early adulthood.