Takeover Alert: Police Station Occupied!
June has been a revolutionary month in Kenya. What started as an online fury train against the Finance Bill 2024 blew up into a revolt in 35 out of the 47 counties in the country. What started as an outcry against the punitive taxes impo....
The Soweto Youth Uprising of June 16th 1976
The past week has been a heated one in Kenya. Streets have been thronged like never before. Not even the election campaigns saw these many people out at once. The streets of the Nairobi CBD were full from one end to the other. But it was....
Simp of the millennium
What’s the most you’ve done for the person you love? And no, I don’t mean for a person whom you are already engaged or married to, but to someone you’re trying to win over.
Remember in the Bible when Jacob....
History of Trans-African channels during the colonial period
Back in 2018, FIFA opened the floor for countries interested in hosting the 2026 Football World Cup to submit their bids. Two bids were received: one from Morocco, and the second as a united bid between the United States of America, Cana....
Forget US and UK Rock. Here's Zambian Rock
How many African presidents do you know who are musicians?
Those from Uganda know that President Yoweri Museveni has sung more than 5 songs, the most famous being his debut song. Released in November 2010, You Want Another Rap? w....
Forget the Astronauts and Cosmonauts. Here are the Afronauts
I’m sure we all know about the Space Race that happened in the mid-20th Century, during the Cold War, between the US and the USSR. It all started with the publication of a caricature by a Soviet youth magazine in 1951, a....
The Bongos
Every Sunday night, I tuned in to a show on NTV called #TWENDE, where Elshaphan Njora, the main character, goes hiking in different places and documents them. Last Sunday, he visited the Mt Kenya Forest, and to hike around the area, he h....