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Reflections from a Christmas road trip

Reflecting on December travel, exploring how festive journeys, whether to ancestral homes or quiet retreats, reconnect us with memory, family, grief and belonging.

By Jayne Rose Gacheri 2025-12-21 10:46:27

World Photography Day: Celebrating the lens that holds our memories

By Faith Oyoo 2025-08-19 12:18:19

Nairobi on lockdown: A journalist's tense journey through police barricades during Saba Saba

A journalist recounts his harrowing and costly morning journey through a militarised Nairobi, facing roadblocks, cold officers, and a city on lockdown.

By Manuel Ntoyai 2025-07-12 15:46:52

Albert Ojwang: Death digs up echoes of police brutality

The death of Albert Ojwang highlights a disturbing pattern of extrajudicial killings in Kenya and raises urgent questions about systemic police impunity despite past high-profile convictions.

By George Njunge 2025-06-15 11:55:40

Albert Ojwang: Death digs up echoes of police brutality

The never-dying relationship between Kenyan politics and music takes new turn

In Kenya, music and politics deeply tie, with musicians playing key roles in political campaigns, but recent backlash against artists supporting unpopular leaders reveals the risks of this alliance.

By George Njunge 2025-06-01 13:37:42

The never-dying relationship between Kenyan politics and music takes new turn

Why be a good mum when you can be a deadbeat parent?

The society we live in actively protects irresponsible fathers and it is evident in the way the phrase “daddy issues” is an insult used to shame fatherless women.

By La Patrona
Jul. 22, 2022

Why be a good mum when you can be a deadbeat parent?

My wife dresses sexy to work but not for me

If you want to go all-natural, do it at home and at work. If your husband gets to enjoy your pimples, don’t deny your colleagues the honour.

By Brian Guserwa
Jul. 21, 2022

My wife dresses sexy to work but not for me

Rich men don't marry ghetto girls

In the real world, the rich or wealthy marry among their gilded circles since they’re part of the power elite.

By Ojiambo Ainea
Jul. 21, 2022

For men, hot is way better than smart

This is why a lowly placed housemaid might just marry the pilot who lives next door.

By Awuor Omino
Jul. 21, 2022

We need to talk: Every man's worst nightmare

Apparently, those words can cause a heart attack.

By Diana Makokha
Jul. 20, 2022

We need to talk: Every man's worst nightmare

In cold July, 3 are better than one

Tom now wants to have both Mary and Caren at the same time. A gathering of three people is no longer a surety that the word of God is being spoken even if Mary said she was going for kesha.

By Awuor Omino
Jul. 16, 2022

Only industries will rev up Kenya's economy

Economic policies that increase taxes to finance welfare programmes without feeding the goose that lays the golden egg, which is industry, will fail flat.

By Auscar Wambiya
Jul. 14, 2022