Memento Mori: On Death, Dying and Revolutionary Urgency
Image By Pawel Janiak By Alieu BahI have known loss. I have known grief. Immense loss that makes you forget how to grieve because the sadness and helplessness in the…
GenZ: These Demonstrations go Beyond the Finance Bill
By Sungu Oyoo“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.” - Frantz FanonAn anti-people 2024 Finance Act currently before the Kenyan Parliament has…
Reject the Finance Bill: Young Kenya Rises in a Summer of Revolt
By Alieu BahThis essay is dedicated to the defiant memory of Rex Kanyike Masai, a martyr of our times.A historical moment has been unleashed on the streets and highways of…
Water for Life, not Profit: Conversations in Azania
image by Nawawie Mathews By Ruth MumbiIn April 2024, I embarked on a transformative journey to Cape Town for the ‘Bridging Waters’ exchange program organised by the Africa Water Justice…
Floods and Demolitions in Kenya: A Method to the Madness
Sungu Oyoo and Andrew Karamagi | May 2024 Background Recent floods in Kenya, marked by the highest rainfall in decades, have left at least 270 people dead, over 200,000 displaced,…
May Day and other Proletarian blues
Alieu BahIn the seemingly eternal rains of Nairobi, sitting in a seat that’s newly acquired by my comrade who seems to be pretty excited about it, I enter into those…
The Climate Crisis as Collective Struggle: Dispatch from a Flooding Nairobi
Kinuthia Ndung’u & Nicholas Mwangi.This essay is dedicated to the memory of Mama Victor (pictured in above image) and Jacinta Adhiambo. Despite both being trapped in a cycle of poverty…
Murder on a Festive Occasion for our People
Kinuthia Ndung’u & Alieu BahLast year, tragedy struck on one of the holiest and merriest of times for the Christian faithful in Kenya after the discovery of four bodies near…
Surviving on the Fringes: Deception of Social Housing
‘Maendeleo ni watu, si vitu(Development should focus on people, not things)’ - Julius Nyerere The tailor who operates a small tailoring shop a few metres from my house, likely in…
You Cannot Fence Freedom
I am in Nairobi, seated in close proximity to the Nairobi Arboretum. I’m in deep thought about recent proposals to impose entry charges to Nairobi’s largest park, Uhuru Park. This…