by Njuki Githethwa | Mar 7, 2022 | Issue 8, Mashujaa
Muthoni wa Kirima is a retired top-ranking female fighter in the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, popularly known as Mau Mau Movement in the 1950s. Few Mau Mau women became active fighters and the extraordinary roles of many others are often disregarded in what Professor...
by Lewis Maghanga | Mar 7, 2022 | Issue 8, Blog
Students constitute a critical section of the population in any country. Kenya is no exception. As a country, the progressive steps we have made as far as the opening up of democratic space is concerned have occurred as a result of the deep involvement of university...
by Gitura Mwaura | Mar 7, 2022 | Issue 8, Blog
Courtesy of the International Inventories Programme (IPP), we now know that Kenya’s cultural objects plundered during the colonial period amount to over 32,000 items, and this particular lot is held in just 30 institutions in North America and Europe. This IPP...
by Lena Grace Anyuolo | Mar 7, 2022 | Issue 8, Blog
On May 30th 2018, President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged to issue 100,000 title deeds to Embakasi residents at Jacaranda Grounds. In May 2019, the former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko halted the process for 50,000 plot owners. He reportedly did this to pave way for...
by Monaja | Mar 7, 2022 | Issue 8, Editor's Note
The paradox of “the struggle” – the phrase that some of my senior comrades use in reference to organizing – is that it is inspired by both hope and hopelessness. Often, people invest in the struggle through action with the hope that matters will change one day....
