April 29, 2018
Veon Ngugi, a Nairobi based blogger shares her thoughts on To Be A Man, a poetry anthology published by Kwani? In 2007, Kwani Trust – a […]
April 28, 2018
Ngugi wa Thiong’o put together a story of Matigari, originally authored in Kikuyu before it’s translation to English and thereafter published in 1987. Film producer Ruby […]
April 27, 2018
Michael Odhiambo examines Kenya @ 50: Trends, Identities, and the Politics of Belonging, by Joyce Nyairo. Kenya at 50 is a collection of petit recit (little […]
April 26, 2018
Anne Moraa on Migritude by Shailja Patel. Shailja Patel weaves her life’s journey moving between continents with our own history as Kenyans and as women. A […]
April 21, 2018
Leading into one of the busiest sections of Nairobi Central business District was Duke Strret, so named like many of Nairobi’s early streets for English royalty. […]
April 20, 2018
This street was non existent during the pre independence period but when a newly independent Kenya’s capital expanded, there was need for more roads. Argwings Kodhek […]
April 19, 2018
The Kenyatta International Conference Centre was built in 1973, shortly after Coronation Avenue was renamed. Initially planned to have four storeys, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta requested for […]
April 18, 2018
When Nairobi was growing into a city one of the outlying borders was Ainsworth Bridge. Along this route lay a dirt track and almost parallel, the […]
April 18, 2018
Many of Nairobi’s current street names were named after individuals who moved mountains during the road to Kenya’s independence. KANU was one of Kenya’s most active […]