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Mar 6, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | JACQUELINE KUBANIA
As dusk fell on Valentine’s Day, a few hundred young people gathered in the graduation square at the University of Nairobi. Dressed in black t-shirts for an event dubbed “Dark Valentine,” they performed a solemn vigil in honor of Kenyan women and girls who have lost their lives to gender-based violence in the last several years.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Eddy Ashioya
Growing up in a deeply patriarchal society does something to you. You come to expect violence, either the explicit physical kind that leaves women dead, or the more subtle emotional and psychological kind that takes a lifetime to undo. Still, when Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza stood before the Senate last week to defend herself from impeachment, even those of us who grew up in Meru were shocked by the recordings of the egregious misogynistic attacks that have characterised her term.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Mwalimu Mati |JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Vincent Ng'Ethe |Mwende Ngao
Last week, Kenya’s Controller of Budget Dr Margarat Nyakang’o, revealed on national TV that her official salary has been inflated (by up to three times) in the books kept by the National Treasury. According to Dr Nyakang’o a triple provision of her actual salary has been programmed into the IFMIS payment portal, which state of affairs makes it possible to draw the funds at will.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe |JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Mwalimu Mati |Mwende Ngao
What does public participation in Nairobi look like? The Constitution of Kenya 2010 requires the government – whether national or county – to facilitate and engage in public participation whenever making laws. However, the form such civic undertakings take depends on who is doing it, and why.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Mwalimu Mati |Vincent Ng'Ethe
I have fantasies of being enrolled in a boot camp. In them, a sadistic trainer kicks me out of bed every morning at 4 a.m., putting me through hours of such punishing physical exercise that it makes me weep. But there’s no time to cry because right afterwards I have to attend French classes with a militant teacher who takes no prisoners, and then go swimming, and then be forced to sit in a chair for three hours straight until I produce 3,000 words of writing every single day.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe |Rasna Warah |JACQUELINE KUBANIA
When times are tough, governments declare they will slash spending and Kenyan ones are no different. Kenyans will remember when Uhuru Kenyatta, as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, declared that government ministers would have to be driven in Volkswagen Passat vehicles because the customary Mercedes Benz limousines were fuel guzzlers. It’s not clear what that decision did to the lumbar health of our leaders, but the natural order of things was soon restored.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA
A few months ago I took my friends’ children to the cinema to watch The Little Mermaid but we left before we even heard Ariel’s first song. The girls, aged 6 and 5, found the movie too scary so we walked out after just 10 minutes. We spent the rest of the morning in a play park where they jumped on trampolines, dived into ball-pits and scaled obstacle courses to their hearts’ content.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA
Any week you don’t see this column on your feed, it is mostly because I haven’t submitted it. I tell myself that I am too busy to write it, or I don’t know what to write about. But the truth is that when I hold back from submitting a piece to my editors, it is mostly because I was too paralysed by the fear of it sucking that I simply did not write it.
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May 19, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA
Today I am inserting my nose into married people’s business because I feel like if you (married folk 😀) put your business out there, then it becomes fair game for hot takes. Hollywood superstar Gabrielle Union recently went on the record saying she splits bills 50-50 with her hotshot basketballer husband Dwayne Wayde. Like everyone else on the internet, I have an opinion. And my opinion is that Ms Union is getting a raw deal.
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May 17, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA
A three year old has just moved in with me. Her name is Rosie. She has orange hair, a spicy attitude and startling gold eyes. Rosie is a ginger cat with a healthy suspicion of people – unsurprising, given her difficult beginnings in this world. She was rescued from Mombasa two years ago after some nasty people broke her hind legs and left her for dead. She has had to get surgery and lots of physio-therapy to restore her legs to full function.
