Stuck in Nairobi on a random Saturday, Gloria Mari explores Kenya National Archives and meets Ferdinand. Continue reading…
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A City Without A Hero
Nairobi is a city without a hero, but not in Tuko Macho. In this vigilante story, our hero wears a hoodie. Continue reading…
Nairobi was Never Meant to be a City
By John Kamau and Owaahh
More than a century ago, a brash and racist decision bore a small tin shack town in the middle of the swamp. Then the town became unstoppable. Continue reading…
AM Jeevanjee: The Man Who Built Nairobi
Although the only thing that still bears his name in Nairobi today is a public park, Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee’s (AMJ) story is closely interwoven with the story of Nairobi’s beginnings. Jeevanjee was a businessman, politician, and philanthropist all packed into one stocky, curious, and illustrious immigrant who made Kenya his home. Continue reading…
The Three Curious Bombings that Rocked Nairobi in 1975
In the span of five weeks in early 1975, three explosions hit Kenya’s capital. Continue reading…
The man who saved Nairobi from the Bubonic Plague
Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro is the zebra-riding octor who saved Nairobi from the Bubonic Plague. He did so because it was his job, but he rode a zebra because he could. Continue reading…
Are We Denying Turere his Childhood?
It is no secret, we are all learning from children, and childhood to be specific; the mind of the child is unbridled with the worries of life that stop us from taking risks and following our impulses.
7 Most Intriguing Kenyan Innovations
If you hear the words ‘Kenyan inventions’, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the successful, overly-analyzed and praised MPesa, which is more of an innovation than an invention…and whose success is wrongly directed-similar innovations have been attempted but failed because of low adoption. How does Kenya fair on the tech- and engineering feats though?
Hell’s Academy: A Review
A group of people find themselves in hell and they need to know why they got there. So the play is made as a series flashbacks for the main characters. For a play lasting about three hours and about 25 people in the cast, it was quite a show.
Of Phone Thieves, and the Student who kept a Pet Snake
If you are reading this and you have ever had your phone stolen, grabbed even, in this (used-to-be) city in the sun, then you are either smiling to yourself or holding your chin. A phone is not an easy thing to lose, never has been. The Kenyan phone thief is proof that Darwin was right. First, let us agree that there are no absolutes in science, there are no facts, and there is no proof. Everything depends…
The Beautiful Lady and the House of the Dead
The fact that you have read the title and decided to read this post implies that you find it intriguing that a beautiful girl can have a connection to the house of the dead, what we mortals call a morgue or Mortuary. Well, let me be the first one to tell you this, the beautiful girls die too…I hear beauty actually rots faster too… Continue reading…