Musings • Promoted Content

The Sister Right

May 12, 2018 • ‘I’m pregnant,’ she answered. It was supposed to be the end of ends. I didn’t get...

Features

The Women Who Went to War

May 7, 2018 • Of all the women who fought in the Mau Mau war, only a few are known, and even fewer...

Musings • Promoted Content

Sex, Ed and Dread

May 2, 2018 • How did you first learn about sex and family planning? ...

Adventures • Features

A Nairobi Pedestrian Goes to Archives

March 20, 2018 • Stuck in Nairobi on a random Saturday waiting for her mum, Gloria Mari explores Kenya...

Listicles

7 More Absurd Stories from Kenyan History

March 13, 2018 • In the original draft of this listicle, this entry was specifically about that time Fai...

Listicles

7 Most Bizarre Things Banned By African Dictators

March 13, 2018 • The most subversive thing you can do in Burundi today is jog without a permit. You might...

Listicles • Quick Reads

7 ‘Lost’ African Countries

December 30, 2017 • In the last fifty years alone, the independence of the Republic of Ambazonia has been...

Features

The Three-Year Bank Heist

December 18, 2017 • It started like all scams do, with a hook. From there it just escalated for three...

Features

We Won’t Forget

October 16, 2017 • "We Won't Forget" is an interrogation of domestic and imported terrorism that has faced...

Musings

Viewer Discretion is Ill-Advised

September 23, 2017 • In her first musings for Owaahh.com, Mari Gloria talks about why censorship has no place...

Musings • Promoted Content

The Sister Right

May 12, 2018 •

‘I’m pregnant,’ she answered. It was supposed to be the end of ends. I didn’t get the seriousness of it. ‘Congratulations.’ I rushed to hug her.

| May 12, 2018

The Women Who Went to War

May 7, 2018 • Of all the women who fought in the Mau Mau war, only a few are known, and even fewer remembered.

Sex, Ed and Dread

May 2, 2018 • How did you first learn about sex and family planning?

A Nairobi Pedestrian Goes to Archives

March 20, 2018 • Stuck in Nairobi on a random Saturday waiting for her mum, Gloria Mari explores Kenya National Archives and meets Ferdinand.

Listicles • Quick Reads

7 ‘Lost’ African Countries

December 30, 2017 • In the last fifty years alone, the independence of the Republic of Ambazonia has been declared thrice. The fight to get it recognised is still ongoing.

| December 30, 2017

Listicles

7 Most Interesting But Obscure Kenyan Laws

January 24, 2017 • There's only one building in Kenya protected by a specific law, although there was once a bridge too. Back when it was illegal to be broke and unemployed. You could still, then, get your own coat of arms for your banners.

| January 24, 2017

Adventures

Rusinga Festival: A Photo Essay

December 27, 2016 • The Rusinga Festival celebrates the colorful history of the Subanese, descendants of a dynastic war for the Buganda throne.

| December 27, 2016

Listicles • Projects

Roughly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Kenyan Journalism

June 18, 2016 • A reading list of some of the best works of Kenyan journalism available online. And a chance for you to join this curation project.

| June 18, 2016

Features

The First Computers in East Africa –and what became of them

July 6, 2015 • One of them ended up at the bottom of the ocean, because of a snake, a gun, and bureaucracy. Another ended up in China, somehow.

| July 6, 2015

Profiles • Quick Reads

Monica Njeri’s Killer Killed Again

November 20, 2014 • In August 1980, Kenya arrested a US sailor for the murder of Monica Njeri in a drunken brawl. 32 years later, he killed three more women.

| November 20, 2014

Adventures • Features

A Nairobi Pedestrian Goes to Archives

March 20, 2018 • Stuck in Nairobi on a random Saturday waiting for her mum, Gloria Mari explores Kenya National Archives and meets Ferdinand.

| March 20, 2018

Listicles

7 More Absurd Stories from Kenyan History

March 13, 2018 • In the original draft of this listicle, this entry was specifically about that time Fai Amario, in 2000, placed an ad in the dailies that he was searching for a wife. But every single story about this highly intelligent psychopath and brewer is just batshit crazy.

| March 13, 2018

Listicles

7 Most Bizarre Things Banned By African Dictators

March 13, 2018 • The most subversive thing you can do in Burundi today is jog without a permit. You might also not want to rough up the president, who's a striker, in a football match. Unless you don't value your freedom.

| March 13, 2018

Features

The Three-Year Bank Heist

December 18, 2017 • It started like all scams do, with a hook. From there it just escalated for three straight years, losing the bank $242 million in what is considered the third largest bank heist in history.

| December 18, 2017

Features

We Won’t Forget

October 16, 2017 • "We Won't Forget" is an interrogation of domestic and imported terrorism that has faced Kenya in the last decade-through poetry, monologues, and dance.

| October 16, 2017

Musings

Viewer Discretion is Ill-Advised

September 23, 2017 • In her first musings for Owaahh.com, Mari Gloria talks about why censorship has no place in modern society. 

| September 23, 2017

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