Lewis Kobatek is a worried twelve-year-old. Since March this year, COVID-19 has suspended learning for him and his classmates. The time in between has been spent trying to catch up with schoolwork, attending to chores, and stressing about what now seems like a wasted year.
I’m loading bottles of drinking water into the Hino bus at 5:45 AM when Korir eases his car into 4th Ngong Avenue. As the Nairobi City Stars CEO, I am headed to Kakamega with the team because he had said Read more…
Gilgil. Kenya. 14. 09. 2022 Towns fly past as the bus speeds by. Kinungi, Morendati, Gilgil, Kanyawa. I tug at my seatbelt, as the lights in the distance keep me fascinated. Vibrant towns during the day, they are white dots Read more…
As posted on the KCB blog here KASARANI Thursday, 23rd June 2022. I find Wango near the arc where Nkrumah Avenue joins Moi Avenue, at the ATMs on KenCom House. The 70s-style, beige-coloured building, is one of Nairobi’s most distinct landmarks Read more…
WHATSAPP | 11TH JULY 2022, 21:50 The first time I talked to Tony was after a game they had at Impala in January. I took photos of him and Robin, his teammate, and I had to take his number so Read more…
I remember what breakfast was on the morning of March 4th, 2013. Hot mandazi that needed to be pinched carefully to avoid searing my fingers, and over-sugared, black tea. Like a lot of my agemates, it was my first time Read more…
In the early afternoon of 29th December 2002, Uhuru Kenyatta read a concession speech in a packed hall, at the Serena Hotel, a few minutes from State House Nairobi. It was a formal, written acceptance of a resounding loss at Read more…
I was nine the first time I was caught up in a corruption scandal . Mother sent me to the British Petroleum filling point near Ndurarua Primary to buy paraffin and I let myself be used by the forces of Read more…
In a dimly lit alley in Dandora, a young woman walks nervously. She’s carrying a baby on her back, and the bag she is half-carrying, half-dragging is clearly heavy. She keeps looking behind her, like she is running from something Read more…
There’s a sexual revolution happening in Kenya. For the first time in ages, sex toy shops, which were barely breaking even, are making profits; big, veiny dildos are selling out as fast as whips and handcuffs are (btw you might Read more…
It’s a thirty-minute commute from Nairobi’s CBD to Ruiru, but the traffic makes it forty-five. I’m meeting Blaze, stylized as @B3laze on Twitter, to talk to him on his de facto role as one of Kenyan Twitter’s most prominent young, Read more…