Jack Denton
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Epistemologist @NYmag Writing: @Pitchfork, @Harpers, @nprmusic, @RollingStone, @PacificStand (rip), @VICE, @Outline, @thefader, @MotherJones, @nytimes
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thetimes.com | Jack Denton
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gazettextra.com | Jack Denton |Desmond Tiro
By JACK DENTON and DESMOND TIRO - Associated Press MATHARE, Kenya (AP) - Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the "gangster life" in Nairobi's Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot dead by police, the young men took stock. "We said, 'We cannot live like this. We are going to lose our lives.' Many of our friends had died," said Kariaga, now 27. "I reflected on my life. I had to change."Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.
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thecanadianpressnews.ca | Jack Denton |Desmond Tiro
MATHARE, Kenya (AP) - Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the "gangster life" in Nairobi's Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot dead by police, the young men took stock. "We said, 'We cannot live like this. We are going to lose our lives.' Many of our friends had died," said Kariaga, now 27. "I reflected on my life. I had to change."Now the men are farmers with a social mission.
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whec.com | Jack Denton |Desmond Tiro
MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga’s brother was shot dead by police, the young men took stock. “We said, ‘We cannot live like this. We are going to lose our lives.’ Many of our friends had died,” said Kariaga, now 27. “I reflected on my life. I had to change.”Now the men are farmers with a social mission.
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abcnews.go.com | Jack Denton |Desmond Tiro
Young men who once lived the “gangster life” in Kenya's capital have become farmers with a social missionByJACK DENTON Associated Press and DESMOND TIRO Associated PressReformed gangsters and members of Vision Bearerz Youth Group feed fish at a fish pond in the Mathare informal settlement of the capital Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, April 5, 2025.
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Aside from all the more important ways that twitter has degraded, it's clear there's been a severe comedy brain drain. In, say, 2019, this wouldn't have cracked 15 likes, given the quality of competing Italophobic and/or nyc tourist-hating jokes being churned out back then https://t.co/H7EpZDocip
