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Interesting Lives, Part Two

1st March 2025 Always Worth Saying 2378 Comments

When Aga Khan III died, it was a difficult act to follow, especially since the title skipped a generation and found itself resting upon the shoulders of 19-year-old Prince Karim Al Husseini, who we know [more…]

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Interesting Lives

15th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 2317 Comments

After happening upon some sad news at the breakfast table the other morning, I sighed, folded my newspaper and gazed wistfully out of the window across the frost-pinched meadows of my native Debatable Lands. Beyond [more…]

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Uprising in Kenya

11th December 2024 Going Postal 2269 Comments

Broadcasted for the world to see through TikTok live stream before quickly going viral across several other social media platforms, a video shared early Tuesday, 25 June 2024, by a young Kenyan TikTok user showed [more…]

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First Came The Floods…

20th November 2024 Going Postal 2799 Comments

First came the floods that washed away people’s homes, then came the bulldozers that destroyed everything that was left. Before the mass revolt in Kenya spread countrywide in June, it had already started in the [more…]

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The Problem Is Systemic

30th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 3635 Comments

October 15, 2024 If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse Kenya, only [more…]

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Macron & Ruto, Part Two

9th October 2024 Going Postal 2874 Comments

Dark clouds gather over Paris and Nairobi as the administrations of France’s President Macron and Kenya’s William Ruto become increasingly authoritarian. Noé Michalon and Syo Ivia take up the story… A growing accountability deficit The [more…]

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A Distant Monument to Unrequited Love

5th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 1764 Comments

If breaking a journey between Nairobi and Kampala, gentlemen and lady travellers might like to give the city of Nakuru a chance. If it becomes tiresome you can always take a tuk-tuk for a day [more…]

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Macron & Ruto

2nd October 2024 Going Postal 2616 Comments

The parallels between France and Kenya, and between Emmanuel Macron and William Ruto, lead us to question what fundamental trends brought both countries to experience quite similar crises, to which both leaders responded in a [more…]

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Teargassing a Baddie

25th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 2552 Comments

September, 2024 The log had fallen from my eye. It was time to come from behind the screen and take action. If you were to ask 16-year-old me whether a day would come when I’d [more…]

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