PinnedM.Seeing Vintage Nairobi through Black Emanuelle, Two ’70s Porn Films10 years before Out of Africa, an Italian film titled “Black Emanuelle” put Kenya on the map. It was a porn film. It even had a sequel.Mar 28, 2018Mar 28, 2018
M.‘If Gays Didn’t Exist’: Inside Kenya’s Dalleys with HomophobiaIn November 1999, Dr. Margaret Ogola, a renowned Kenyan author and paediatrician, walked onto a podium in Geneva, Switzerland. She was…Mar 30Mar 30
M.The Republics Were Built on NewsOnce, while on a reporting trip in northern Tanzania, my colleagues and I almost got lynched by a mob of one man and tens of women. The…Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020
M.The Republic? Definitely CakeFive years ago, while writing for BAKE to commemorate that year’s Human Rights Day, I covered the familiar mid-election topic of why we…Jul 24, 2020Jul 24, 2020
M.The Rise and Fall of the State House BoysInside the intrigues that built and destroyed the President’s comms team. A story of blind ambition, unfettered ego, and utter destruction…Oct 26, 2018Oct 26, 2018
M.The Man Who Sold a Country…and the people who let it happen (simply, us).Sep 28, 20181Sep 28, 20181
M.A Story About StoriesI don’t know why anyone of us writes. It is hard. It is opening your own chest and ripping your heart out string by string until words…Aug 28, 2018Aug 28, 2018
M.That Naked Guy in BEAST OF NO NATIONRead the full story on Too Late for Worms. [LINK]Oct 30, 2015Oct 30, 2015