Busia Senator and activist lawyer Okiya Omtatah recently declared his intent to run for president of Kenya in 2027. Over his career, Omtatah has sued multinationals, government, politicians, and many others on behalf of the public interest and promises to focus on “anti-corruption measures” and executing the Constitution. We’ve spent many hours helping people understand […]
Minoo Kyaa, Gathanga Ndung’u and Gacheke Gachihi, Brian Mathenge, and Wangina Wahome talk to Firoze Manji, Daraja Press, about the civic uprisings and the killings of unarmed civilians by the police in Kenya in recent days and the role of Raila Odinga, the leader of the opposition party, the AZIMIO coalition. Minoo Kyaa is a […]
I will be talking with Samuel Gathanga Ndung’u, author of Mathare: MATHARE: An Urban Bastion of Anti-Oppression Struggle in Kenya, as well as Gacheke Gachihi, Faith Kasina, and Afrofeminist Wairimu Gathimba from the Social Justice Centres in Kenya.
I talk with April Zhu and Stoneface Bombaa about archiving lost/erased histories of resistance in Kenya through the production of podcasts and radio in Sheng, the alternate language of the informal settlements. April Zhu is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, where she has written on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya as seen from the margin. While […]
Ruth Nyambura is a feminist political ecologist and activist from Kenya working on the intersections of gender, economy and ecological justice. Ruth is a founding member and the convener of the African Ecofeminists Collective and also works with several regional agrarian and climate justice movements to track and challenge the privatization of the agrarian commons. […]
An enlightening discussion with Gacheke Gachi from the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, about the situation facing shack-dwellers in the face of COVID-19.
