Cover Story: Feminism
The Constitutional Erosion of the 2/3rds Gender Principle and the Rule of Law
I remember well the pomp and celebration that accompanied the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. The 27th of August 2010 marked a day that signified the turning of a new page, a new page to begin to rewrite...
Just Not Sorry
I recently downloaded a browser extension called Just not sorry. It underlines in red, like a spell checker, words and phrases in my emails that are self-demeaning or qualifying. ‘I’m just writing to say…’ ‘I’m sorry…’ ‘I think…’ ‘I’m no...
Me too: speaking out for the first time in Gaza
Omnia, 20, was born and raised in United Arab Emirates and moved to Gaza on 2013. She is a fourth-year student at the Islamic University of Gaza, where she is majoring in English literature. She uses writing to express her...
Kenya Association of Manufactures (KAM)
1. Women are multidimensional and dynamic, and in this sense, who is P...
Zarika’s journey: Fists of hope
THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY NATION ON FRIDAY OCTOBER...
Drawing Strength from our Ancestors
Bertha Cáceres was only 25 years old when her mother, Berta, a world-r...
Engaging Norms that Undermine Gender and Human Rights in Kenya
In the year 2000, during a protest by Muslim women against the equalit...
It Is Still Not Too Late. Speak Up!
By Wanjeri #AmKenyan Today I had an official meeting with a known sex...
The campaign to end the silence
How best do you speak about the same thing over and over again? What m...
Spotlight on Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LBTQ) Women
Kenya’s women’s rights movement has been one of the most vibrant, well...
Let A Thousand Flowers Blossom
As a response to the wind of change that was blowing in the 80’s hera...
The Need to Belong, When Faith Turn to Harm
I have a hairy chin. Being a woman, this is not something I am suppose...
#52 - Bigger Than a Hashtag
Not too long ago, online campaigns got a bad rap for being, well, onli...
Regular Columns
Feminine or Feminist?
It is purely incidental that the person who inspired this article happened to have been a South Asian woman, encountered via a facebook post, as manifestations of the phenomenon...
Men`s mea culpa!
Men Behaving Badly was a highly successful tv sit-com that dominated the light entertainment scene in Britain all through the 1990s. It was even exported to the US and remade...
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Footsteps
Ken Wafula (1973 - 2018)
Ken Wafula first came to be known to many pro-democracy leaders in 1997 at the NCEC Ufun...
Njuguna Mutonya (2017)
On 24 December 2017, Njuguna Mutonya breathed his last and with his death the liberal cl...
Professor Calestous Juma, FAAS, FRS, EBS (1953-2018)
Calestous Juma was born on 9 June 1953, in Bunyala location, Kenya to Clementina Okhubed...
Gabriel Omollo (1939-2018)
‘Lunch time’ hit song maker Gabriel Omollo died on 4 January 2018 at the age of 79 at th...
Ratanshaw (Rati) Rustomji (1928 – 2017)
In 1904, a Parsi watch repairer known as Jehangirji Rustomji travelled from India to Eas...
John Cato Nottigham - The Final Journey of A Good Man
For the millions of Kenyans who were living under the sweltering yoke of British Colonia...