When Community Shows Up, Change Begins.
Kenya's young people aren't disengaged from civic life, they're disconnected from formal democratic processes. For three weeks at Baraza Media Lab, we…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
FREE ME
Based on her own experience, FREE ME follows one woman from teenager to survivor, through a relationship that promised love, but delivered…
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…
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…
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…