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…