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‘Too Good to be a Woman’: The Deliberate Targeting of Caster Semenya

“It’s weird…in regular life, I’d go to bat for Caster to have every single right. But on the track, we need to have a clear, objective…

May 2, 2019

‘Too Good to be a Woman’: The Deliberate Targeting of Caster Semenya

May 2, 2019

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Cynthia Mbuthia

Symphonies and Stars: On Stephen Hawking, Classical Music and Wonder

This week the world lost one of its brightest minds. To myself and countless others, Stephen Hawking was the subject of reverence and that…

Mar 17, 2018

Symphonies and Stars: On Stephen Hawking, Classical Music and Wonder

Mar 17, 2018

Cynthia Mbuthia

Fire on the Mountain

There is fire on the mountaintop, and no one is running.

Sep 10, 2020

Fire on the Mountain

Sep 10, 2020

Cynthia Mbuthia

The Jeremy Kyle show was funded by the British government- why?

As the dust settles on the set of the Jeremy Kyle show, important conversations about the underlying issues of this type of TV — where…

May 22, 2019

The Jeremy Kyle show was funded by the British government- why?

May 22, 2019

Cynthia Mbuthia

‘Too Good to be a Woman’: The Deliberate Targeting of Caster Semenya

“It’s weird…in regular life, I’d go to bat for Caster to have every single right. But on the track, we need to have a clear, objective…

May 2, 2019

‘Too Good to be a Woman’: The Deliberate Targeting of Caster Semenya

May 2, 2019

Cynthia Mbuthia

Monuments, Presidents and Gods: No More Bowing to the Big Men of African Politics

Departments of African Studies love to talk about the ‘Big Man’ theory. They love to explain how charismatic nationalist leaders of…

Jul 10, 2018

Monuments, Presidents and Gods: No More Bowing to the Big Men of African Politics

Jul 10, 2018

Cynthia Mbuthia

Trophy Hunting- Carnal Desires and the Legacies of Colonial Exploitation

Once upon a time, European men landed on the continent of Africa. They studied the land, mapped it, catalogued various exotic species, set…

Nov 18, 2017

Trophy Hunting- Carnal Desires and the Legacies of Colonial Exploitation

Nov 18, 2017

Cynthia Mbuthia

Cynthia Mbuthia

I like semicolons and semiquavers. Writing mainly about politics, music and their intersections | Nairobi/London |

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