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Jan 17, 2025 | 
debunk.media | Isaac Otidi Amuke |Ras Mengesha |Bobby Mkangi |Chia Kayanda |Soila Kenya
William Ruto’s Grand Hustle Whether he ascends to Kenya’s presidency on August 9 or not, at 55, deputy president William Samoei Ruto has done the impossible.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
debunk.media | Chia Kayanda |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Lilian Mutinda
My father loved to retweet Rasna Warah. I think in her, he believed he’d found a kindred political spirit. Someone who saw all the injustice for what it was and had the courage to scream, “For crying out loud!” But my father, being the parastatal man that he was, born during colonialism and adulting through the Jomo Kenyatta to Daniel arap Moi eras, was imbued with The Fear. The fear of arbitrary arrest. The fear of abduction. The fear of torture. The fear of death.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Ras Mengesha |Lilian Mutinda |Chia Kayanda |Bobby Mkangi
Dear Mr Odinga,As someone who prides themselves as being an avid student of history – at least that’s the impression we get from your perpetual recitation of this or that bit of Kenyan history whenever you get an opportunity to speak, you must beware that across the breadth of history, in Kenya and elsewhere, change in any society is always driven by the youth.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Ras Mengesha |Chia Kayanda |Bobby Mkangi
At 79, Raila Odinga may just have made his worst political blunder. Across his chequered political career spanning over five decades, both friend and foe agree that Odinga has made significant strides and sacrifices for the struggle for Kenya’s liberation, just as he has unilaterally cut under-the-table-deals with the devil for his own personal advancement in the pretext of making tactical compromises for the benefit of the peoples’ struggles.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Stanley Gazemba |Ras Mengesha |Wairimu Kagichu |Chia Kayanda
When I was eight years old, I visited my favourite barber Boni’s shop at least once a month. This was the only way I could get the latest issue of Supa Strikaz. Back then, when you could get a clean shave for 20twenty bob and the blue notes were still in circulation (xxx), Boni would buy the Sunday Nationnewspaper, pull out the comic, and give it to me for free when I arrived. For a long time, he was my hero.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Stanley Gazemba |Ras Mengesha |Wairimu Kagichu |Chia Kayanda
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Pete Larson (of the Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band), an epidemiologist, nyatiti player, and founder of Dagoretti Records, approached the late Grandmaster Masese (real name Dennis Dancan Mosiere) about doing a project on the Obokanomusic of the Kisii people from the Nyanza region of Western Kenya. Masese was a master of the Obokano, a traditional eight-stringed lyre similar to the Nyatitiof the Luo and the Litunguof the Luhyia.
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May 29, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Chia Kayanda
Guyana, 1974. Nearly a thousand worshippers at the People’s Temple Of The Disciples of Christ follow their leader, the charismatic Preacher Jim Jones, from the boardwalks of California to a 3,800 acre parcel of Guyanese forest. Those who migrated were promised a land of paradise, free from the racial and capitalist injustices of continental USA. This settlement is informally dubbed ‘Jonestown’. Kilifi, 2019.
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May 19, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Chia Kayanda
“Aki mum, it wasn’t even that short…”This is how I found myself being my own defense lawyer, on a Sunday afternoon phone call with my mother. You see, my mother doesn’t watch her WhatsApp stories, but my father does. And in a good marriage, there are no secrets. As my father swiped through the collected memories from my DJ set at the first anniversary of The WhineDown; being the proud father that he is, he decided to share his beaming joy with his partner through parenthood – my mother.
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May 17, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Chia Kayanda
I’ve been watching Boiler Room since I was a teenager. Through the wormhole of Youtube, I would be transported to the glistening dancefloors of Paris, London, New York, and Berlin, among other far flung locales. Vicariously sampling their underground music scenes. Boiler Room is an online music broadcast which hosts dance music events, with a focus on underground music scenes, all across the globe.
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May 17, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Chia Kayanda
For my formative years, my scope of music was defined by, and limited to, the risquè conversations of 88.4 KISS 100, the faint English accents of Capital FM, the smooth jams of Easy FM, the throwbacks of Classic FM, not to forget the urban dancefloor hits of Channel O and MTV Base. This was the world of music that I, and most other children, occupied. The radio was the judge and jury of what constituted good music. Trendy music was good music, they were synonymous to each other.
