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‘First Win the Mind’: The Need for a War of Position in Kenya

Towards the end of her lecture at the 2012 Mwalimu Nyerere Intellectual Festival in the University of Dar es Salaam,…

Mohamed Amin Abdishukri By Mohamed Amin Abdishukri

‘First Win the Mind’: The Need for a War of Position in Kenya

Towards the end of her lecture at the 2012 Mwalimu…

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Legacy Unbroken: The Oath of 2033

In the eerie silence that hung over Nairobi in 2033,…

Articles Issue 19

Mama Mboga Dialogue With Zakayo

(Inside a lavish office, arranged the same way as Mr.…

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The Struggle and Suffering of Writers

"The novelist struggles and the poet suffers." This pithy statement,…

Articles Issue 19

The Genz Revolution and the Centrifugal Forces Fueling Discontent in Kenya

In this article I compare the crisis in Kenya with…

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Reflections on the GEN-Zs Protests in Kenya: The Revolution was not Televised

Ukombozi (freedom or liberation) is more of a verb than…

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Issue 19Poetry

From Hand to Mouth

Kenya imekuwa a residence of evil.  The chief justice sleeps…

Issue 19Poetry

Times are Tough, na No One Can Stomach it

Wazee wamelose hope, nao watoi wanarun from home juu ya…

Issue 19Poetry

The Ruler of the Demons Will Flee

The ruler of the demons long possessed you! And gave…

Issue 19Poetry

The Litter We Treasure

Literature or literate treasure or literate erasure all lit little…

Issue 19Poetry

The Teetotaler

The son of our mothers once liked his tales He…

Issue 19Poetry

Let’s Create a Revolution

Rex Masai showed us the way Freedom has never been…

Issue 19Poetry

Homeland or Death, My Love.

Yesterday mothers cried They flocked the morgues Their children murdered…

Poetry

What Kind Of Times Are These?

Dedicated to the GEN Zs and fellow youth who took…

Issue 19Mashujaa

Syotune wa Kathuke

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

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
Issue 7Mashujaa

The Story of Yusuf bin Hassan aka Dom Jeronimo, the Last Swahili Sultan of Mombasa

By Judy Aldrick* In 1592, the island of Mombasa was divided between the Portuguese and…

By Judy Aldrick
Book ReviewIssue 19

A Review of “Cocktail From The Savannah”

If I were to describe "Cocktail from the Savannah" in a few words, I would call it a Kenyan made soap opera, complete with the rich man saves poor girl trope. Set in the background of Maasai Mara, with a…

By Mwende Kyalo

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