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…
The Scholarship Challenge
There’s a TikTok challenge that has me laughing out of my seat every time I come across it – for those uninitiated…
Pandora Papers Astroturfing
It’s been a month since the Pandora Papers story broke, drawing from a trove of 11.6 million documents obtained by the International Consortium…
Each Other’s Promises
By Wanjiru Nguhi This week’s newsletter is continuing the tradition of inviting members of our community to write From The Curator’s Desk,…
Nobel Prize Win
Greetings, friends: This week’s big news was that the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists, Maria Ressa co-founder…
Monkey Business
Greetings, friends: I’ve been thinking about that monkey that shut down the Kenya Power grid a few years ago. It’s strange, the way the…
Childlike Creativity
By Nepurko, Greetings, friends: This week’s newsletter is continuing the tradition of inviting members of our community to write From The Curator’s…
Elite Disorganization
Greetings, friends: This week, I’ve been thinking about the Court of Appeal’s ruling against the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in Kenya last…
Writing Police Stories
Greetings, friends: I’ve been thinking about the Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and their English composition department. If you’re on Twitter you’ve…
