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I can hear my blood moving as I camouflage. Is this how people get murdered?

Tonny M.K

March 4, 2026

What Substack Taught Me About Kenyan Youth

Online, it is easy to confuse visibility with conviction. Once people realise that certain postures are rewarded with readership, affirmation and a sense of belonging, writing quietly turns into a market. You begin to see essays written not because the writer is wrestling with a question, but because the moment demands content.

Nyamani Marwa Matiko

March 2, 2026

a kenyan tongue in japan

a kenyan tongue in japan realizes speech fillers like aa, mm, nini, poa, or lakini are native to its city

Sheila Ngei

November 29, 2025

Nyumbani Ni Wapi

Nyumbani Ni Wapi is a visual archive of women we've lost and the families left behind due to femicide and gender based violence. The painting Series turned comic sheds light on the growing crisis of femicide and gender-based violence in Kenya.

Leasebeth Kisemba

November 10, 2025

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Don Birhange

September 8, 2025

Sambaza

"According to article 37 of the Constitution of Kenya,’ I heaved, “every person has the right, peaceably and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket, and to-”, I was interrupted by the crack of a baton on my upper arm which saw me fall to the ground with the smirking policeman staring down at me in distaste. ‘Madam, untaka nikubebe juu juu pia wewe uende na boyfriend?”

Tonny M.K

September 8, 2025

Kanairo and Other Poems

we kowtow to the complicated mouth of memory, genuflect before its jeweled spine, kneel before its brass, to its salt hinges, how it opens only to call our names in a city that blushes at the sight of lovers –

Frank Njugi

September 2, 2025

Was It My Time ?

A man crosses over

Tonny M.K

August 7, 2025

Ngũgĩ, I Never Got to Shake Your Hand

Decolonising the Mind was my first rebellion. Dreams in a Time of War taught me to hope.

Benard Hargreaves Ouma

July 10, 2025

Rant of the Times

Chances are, if you’re reading this and living within this regime, you don’t have eight million either. And even if you did, I trust you wouldn’t spend it all on a shitting strap of leather.

Ũũmbi

July 2, 2025

Finding Our Fire Again

Passion without precision is not revolution, it is noise.

Nyamani Marwa Matiko

June 16, 2025

A Tribute to a Kenyan Philosopher

In his memory, may we never fall for the fatalistic logic of abandoning our mother tongues as Africans for someone else’s. Our tongues carry tomorrow's freedom. Aluta continua, Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Rest in peace.

Renny Kipkorir

June 9, 2025