EditorialIssue 22

Difficulties Behind, Now, and Ahead: Expressions of Rupture

2025 has been a year of difficult tidings. This year we lost Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the titan of African literature.…

Njuki Githethwa By Njuki Githethwa

Musa’s Rigid Timeline

At the foot of the famous Gikomba market, is a…

Articles Issue 22

Dynasty Loading: The Myth of Inherited Leadership

A throne inherited is a throne half-empty. True power is…

Articles Issue 22

Class Consciousness : A Year Later, What’s Ahead for Kenya?

In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Agent 47 is sent to…

Articles Issue 22

Duality of the Artist

Our African ancestors left cultures that attempted to impart Utu…

Articles Issue 22

Importance of Cooperatives in the Coffee Sector

The new plan by the Kenya Kwanza administration on the…

Articles Issue 22

Liberation Deferred: Kenya’s Cycles of Protest and Elite Betrayal

Over the past year, Kenya has witnessed a growing wave…

Articles Issue 22
Issue 22Poetry

 All Hell Had Broken Loose!

When they met to dance their pain away That musky…

Issue 22Poetry

WHAT THE NATION FORGOT: Voices Beneath the Flag

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission,…

Issue 22Poetry

This Fire Will Not Blow Out

‎You thought we would cower. ‎bow and break. ‎Scatter like…

Issue 22Poetry

We Will Not Bury the Light

‎for the fallen. for the living. for what lives on…

Issue 22Poetry

Mourning Njau 

Dear comrade Kinuthia, I read your painful piece first thing…

Issue 22Poetry

How To Talk About A Protest

I hear they were out protesting again These young people…

Issue 22Poetry

Feasting At The Palace!

The unloved hospital benches are full Scores of patients are…

Issue 22Poetry

A Country That Crucifies Life

If Mary were to give birth in Kenya today, There…

ArticlesIssue 21Mashujaa

Bildad Kaggia: A Legacy in Patriotic Courage

October 20th is an auspicious day on the national calendar for what it means for the freedom struggle Kenya. At…

By Njuki Githethwa
Issue 19Mashujaa

Syotune wa Kathuke

For as long as Kenya has existed, Kenyans have resisted oppression. Oppression from colonizers and…

By Mwende Kyalo
Mashujaa

MWAKENYA HOUSE: A Bastion of Revolution in the Heart of Kenya

On the outskirts of Nairobi, where the city's bustle fades into the quiet of Kiambu…

By Tafahri Munjatta
Issue 8Mashujaa

Profile of Field Marshall Mûthoni wa Kîrîma

Muthoni wa Kirima is a retired top-ranking female fighter in the Kenya Land and Freedom…

By Njuki Githethwa
Book ReviewIssue 21

Keeping the Anger Burning. A Review of Darius Okolla’s Generation #Occupy: The Anatomy of an Evolving Riot

Darius Okolla’s Generation #Occupy: The Anatomy of an Evolving Riot is brilliant, well written and delivered with sparkling clarity of thought.  Structured like an entry point into the abyss that the period between May and August 2024 was, each chapter…

By Kingwa Kamencu
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