AwaaZ Magazine - Volume 12, Issue 1

Cover Story: Freedom of Expression - Our basic right

Wagalla is Waziristan is Westgate, Garissa is Kismayo is Nairobi

the morning after a massacre a country wakes nauseous no food stays down no chai comforts on the roads they drag crosses blood is given...

One Forty Seven

I want to Cry But have no Tears. I want to pray But have no knees. I want to hope But can’t find tomorrow. I want to be angry But have no heart...

Of Expression, and Its Control

‘What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceas...

Satire Should Spear The Powerful

The savage killing of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journalists by...

Nothing Wrong in Dissension

In this article, I want to caution against not dissenting. Dissension ...

Freedom of Expression

Every person has the right to freedom of expression, which includes— ...

Shades of Grey

Three films have been banned in Kenya in the past year, raising questi...

Emergence of the Super Surveillance State

That the intelligence agencies of the US and UK, the National Security...

Not Funny

Rape cartoons are funny if it’s inconceivable to you that you could ev...

Why Has Digital Migration Become So Complicated?

It was meant to be simple. Broadcasters were supposed to change to tra...

Regular Column

Who's Charlie?

When the Charlie Hebdo killings happened, western liberals - writers, commentators, activi...

Blame It On Them. Ok?

Very rarely do minorities, like South As...

Special Feature

One Nation: Pio’s dream for Kenya

IF THERE is a single beacon alight, many, many decades from now, to evoke the name of Pio ...

Emma Gama Pinto Remembers

TRANSCRIPT OF BENEGAL PEREIRA IN CONVERS...

Pinto knew of plot to kill him

February 24, 2015 marks the 50th anniver...

Memorials are more about the future than about the past

Tribute to Pio Gama A few years ago, I...

New Book!

Available in Nairobi at:

- Bookstop, Yaya Centre
- Prestige Book Shop, Mama Ngina Street
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Department of Literature and Awaaz Colloquium

Corporate Support

Supported [in part] by a grant

Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa of the Open Society Foundations

Friends of Awaaz

Yash and Jill Ghai, Mohez Karmali, Gijsbert Oonk, Vijoo Rattansi, Victoria Commercial Bank Charitable Trust, I& M Bank, Willy Mutunga, Chandaria Foundation, Asian Foundation

About Awaaz

Awaaz is a magazine published tri-annually out of Nairobi, Kenya. It aims to provide a broad platform for debate and reflection on issues of both contemporary and historical interest. What started off in 2002 as a focus on the role of the South Asian community in the historical, political and socio-economic spheres of Kenya; has now broadened to cover the larger debates on diversity, democracy, human rights and social justice. The magazine also critically examines the role of minorities both as communities in Kenya and East Africa; as well as a concept of human rights in a society be they ethnic, racial, gender based, sexual or political.