by Njuki Githethwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Issue 4
Langston Hughes, the African – American poet, novelist and social activist wrote an engrossing poem during the Harlem Renaissance. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten...
by Njuki Githethwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Issue 4
Is there an emerging broad based social movement in Kenya that is coalescing around a single and urgent issue? Which is this issue that is uniting the social movement in Kenya at this time? Will it emerge? Will it hold? Will it give? These questions among others on...
by Monaja | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Issue 4
Katiba yetu, wakenya, wakenya, Katibu ye-tu wakenya tuitekeleze A line off a rendition of Wimbo wa mapambano that is usually sung by “political” artists and organisers at myriad events organised by formal and or informal civil society in Kenya. The line not only...
by Lena Grace Anyuolo | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Issue 4
When we began political mobilization for Saba Saba 2020, we thought constantly about merging theory with practice. Specifically, about the ways in which we can work collectively work towards communal living in small ways to strengthen oppressed communities to attain a...
by Njuki Githethwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Issue 4, Mashujaa
Moraa Ng’iti, like the famous Tanzanian Kinjekitile Ngwale, emerged as one of the seers and medicine woman in Kenya in the 19th and 20th Century in the advent of colonialism. Moraa is assumed to have been of middle age by 1900. She is identified as Moraa moka Ng’iti,...
by Lena Grace Anyuolo | Jan 19, 2021 | Issue 4, Poetry
Dawn breaks with the tears of Isis, Or purple light, Or the colour of royalty, In a concentration camp, There are too many unspoken words, And festering wounds on infected toes and injured hearts, Memory is formless, Slipping through the cracks of our lives, And in...
