Our people, our art, our culture and our countries. We have them. What is the problem? We still have to fight for them. That is the problem. And now we have a…
Music has always been an efficacious tool for galvanizing communities, educating the masses, or just preserving its historical gems and tragedy in societies. This is certainly the case with Octopizzo’s new track…
Crocodile hunting was very profitable in the 1800-1900s. The skin was used to make shoes, bags, belts, and other items. However, white hunters often lost their arms and sometimes their lives as…
When you think of African music, a common visual may come to mind; a circle of dancing men and women smiling, someone in a mask playing a drum rhythm, and an eruption…
Celebrated writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s controversial play ‘I Will Marry When I Want (Ngaahika Ndeenda)’ is set to make a comeback to the Kenyan theatres more than 30 years after it…
Kenya’s first Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga attained a near-mythical status in Kenyan politics while alive, especially among his native Luo community. It is true that Jaramogi’s left hand was shorter than…
The world only knows about the Holocaust, where 6 million Jews were slaughtered by German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1945. However, before Hitler, 10 million Africans were brutally butchered in Africa, something…
His nickname was Gor Mahia ( Mahia being the Luo word for “magic, wonder, or mystery”) but his full name was Gor Wuod Ogada Nyakwar Ogalo, which can be directly translated to…