Keith Ang'ana

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KEITH ANG'ANA - To Build up or to Build Away? – Nairobi’s Housing Crisis - The Elephant

Dec 18, 2024 | theelephant.info | Keith Ang'ana

“At the end of this century, Kenya will have a population of about 35 million people, 78% more than lived in Kenya in 1984. That population will include a workforce of 14 million people, 6.5 million more than in 1984. These future workers have already been born. To accommodate that workforce without a rise in the rate of unemployment, it will be necessary in the next 15 years almost to double the number of jobs in Kenya.
Gen Z, Riggy G, and the Kenyan pornocracy

Dec 4, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kari Mugo |Keith Ang'ana

Five months since the leaderless, anti-tax, pro-good-governance “Gen Z” protests roiled Kenya in June and July 2024, their vanguardism inspiring young people in other African countries to stage their own, the uprising has been eclipsed by the dizzying fallout of a tectonic political shift.
What’s in a Street Name?

Nov 22, 2024 | theelephant.info | Keith Ang'ana

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. I’m a flâneur. Every time I visit a new town, I like to take a walk, a run, and cycle around the area. I walk to discover the various points of interest – the smocha guy for example, the dispensary, the retail shop… To find out if the non-motorised transport lanes in the area are pedestrian-friendly, I run. A bike ride helps me map out the whole area in a short time.
Ruto’s Kenya

Nov 14, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kari Mugo |Keith Ang'ana

Ruto’s government is abducting people every day. Literally. There is not one day that has passed since the anti–finance bill protests started in June when Kenyans are not being bundled into unmarked Subaru cars by unidentified persons understood as plainclothes police officers (in all of their shades of vigilantism). While the president and his acolytes deny these events, which are often captured on city CCTV cameras or by citizen phones, these state kidnappings continue.
Harambee! Harambee Tena!

Oct 1, 2024 | theelephant.info | Keith Ang'ana

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. The year is 1926. Kenya is under colonial rule. Natives in the region around Mt Kenya are, just like those elsewhere, aggrieved by the loss of their land to the colonialists, who have formed a “Lands Board” which will hold all native land in trust “for each tribal group”. This particular tribe, the Agĩkũyũ, have formed their own political party.
‘Waiting Room’ a healthy satire on hospital services

Sep 19, 2024 | the-star.co.ke | Keith Ang'ana

Depending on the hospital that each of us visits, we must all have a memory of an annoying experience. An instance where you dragged yourself to the hospital, sick to the bone, and when you tried to explain your condition to the receptionist, she simply referred you to the waiting bench as she kept scrolling through her phone. And when she finally decided to lend you an ear, you struggled to explain your symptoms while she chewed her gum loudly and pressed her keyboard noisily.
KEITH ANG'ANA - Nairobi – A City Modelled Using the Second Law of Thermodynamics - The Elephant

Sep 13, 2024 | theelephant.info | Keith Ang'ana

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. The year is 1927. The British Colonial Office has just put out an advertisement in the papers that says, “Come to the brightest jewel in the crown of the British Empire – Kenya.” In the 19th century, the term “Jewel in the crown”would be used by Britain in reference to India.
Too early for birds but not too late for Mboya

Aug 7, 2024 | the-star.co.ke | Keith Ang'ana

If we’re to rank theatre groups as if they were national schools, then the theatre group Too Early For Birds would definitely be Alliance or Mang’u, seated at the top, completely clear of the rest. ‘Too Early For Birds’, for those not familiar, is a theatre group that was started in 2017 by Abu Sense and Ngartia to stage diverse stories from Kenyan history.
Ruto the Flying Mantis Has Been Grounded

Aug 2, 2024 | theelephant.info | Keith Ang'ana

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. When we were children, my friends and I loved hanging out every evening after school on the grass field near our homes. With our backs bent over the ground as if in harvest, passers-by would have been forgiven for mistaking us for wheat farmers. Well, we were actually in the process of harvesting, not plants but grasshoppers.
The creative holding the hands of peers

Aug 1, 2024 | the-star.co.ke | Keith Ang'ana

On July 7 last year, I walked into Nairobi Street Kitchen at around 8pm. It was Saba Saba Day and Raila had organised some maandamano protests in the Nairobi CBD. As I approached town from Kipande Road (I had just left Banana), we were forced by the traffic police to alight at the Globe Roundabout, since nobody was allowed to go into town. Since my destination was Mpaka Road on Westlands, I decided that I might as well walk. By the time I got there, a queue had formed at the entrance.