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Friday, August 20, 2021
Beliefs and Bullshit - Confessions of a Miseducated African
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I made this confession during a symposium on Pan-Africanism this past Tuesday. What did religion teach you that you later came to know was a...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
African Grief on an American Ballot
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So we all know the Kubler-Ross 5 stages of grief-- shock/denial, anger, bargaining, grief/depression, acceptance. In politics, seeing people...
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Love and Half a Side of History
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When I was 11-and-a-half I fancied a boy. I remember exactly why. He was the only one with a book bag that was graffitied. I did not know ...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
Death Of A Milkman
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So Kenya's retired 24-years-a-dictator president is dead. Daniel arap Moi. From my observation of the people getting caught up in a str...
Friday, November 15, 2019
Kenyan Diaspora's Eyes On The Prize
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On November 14 th , Kenyans in the diaspora woke up to the sweet sound of good news. One of us, Mwende Mwinzi, had won a battle fought har...
Monday, October 21, 2019
The Black-and-White of American Belonging
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We got there and weren’t sure which of the two houses was the “last on your left” as per instructions we got. They both occupied that same ...
Monday, September 02, 2019
Mythologies Of Labor
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In Christian mythology, labor is a curse. A punishment to humans for disobedience. Deity curses the land so that men shall forever toil in ...
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