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Jun 24, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Rasna Warah |Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Lilian Mutinda |Ras Mengesha
Dear Gen Z,Please allow us to start off this epistle by referring to you by your proper epithet at this monumental juncture in our country’s history: our leaders. Yes, you are our leaders, and we write to you this love letter to express our love ❤️, solidarity ✊🏿 and pure admiration 🤗.
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May 29, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Ras Mengesha |Lilian Mutinda |Mwalimu Mati
Today, one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s most important countries goes to the polls. Dubbed the most important election since the 1994 general election in which Black South Africans voted for the first time, giving the then Nelson Mandela-led African National Congress (ANC) a 62 percent majority, the 2024 election hugely mirrors 1994 in that 1994 was about political liberation, and 2024 is (hopefully) about economic liberation.
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May 28, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Ras Mengesha |Lilian Mutinda |Mwalimu Mati
During his spirited campaign to be president, William Ruto’s main refrain was that he was the son of a nobody – that his father was a nobody, which therefore made him a nobody.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
theelephant.info | Lewis-Miller Kaphira
Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. The curtains part to reveal an empty makeshift theatre stage. The lights from the PAR cans illuminating the stage flicker uncertainly, before shining steadily and then going off abruptly. Pitch darkness.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
theelephant.info | Lewis-Miller Kaphira
Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. You’ll wake up hungry and thirsty on one very random day, your shoulders slouched from the weight of immeasurable fatigue. Outside it will be all dark and gloomy and it will feel as though the sky is caving in on you. Your breathing will be dangerously laboured as a palpable pressure threatens to crush you.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Mwalimu Mati |Lorna Likiza |Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Isaac Otidi Amuke
Getting a National ID, the universal Kenyan rite of passage, has just been tapped as a money-earner by the Kenya Kwanza government. According to a (revoked after public outcry) error-filled Gazette Notice signed by Prof. Kithure Kindiki, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, the State Department for Immigration and Citizenship Services intended to charge Kenyans who have turned 18, KSh 1,000 for a national identity (ID) card (now reversed downwards to KSh 300).
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Stanley Gazemba |Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Lorna Likiza |Isaac Otidi Amuke
It is a Friday afternoon and we are parking our bags on the roof rack of a tour bus outside The Heron Hotel in Milimani, preparing to go spend the weekend in the bush like proper tourists sans the ‘Hakuna Matata’ t-shirts and tan Safari boots. I am excited because we are leaving the city and its maddening traffic and noise. Much as I love to stay in Nairobi for the work and business opportunities it presents, I know that it is not the friendliest city to live in.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Lorna Likiza |Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Eddy Ashioya
As a young woman, being able to go out (at night) without needing permission from my parents was one coming-of-age privilege I deeply longed for. And so when the time came for me to explore nightlife, I relished in the freedom that came with it. Luckily for me, I am the youngest of all my female maternal cousins, with a nine year age gap between myself and the sister I follow. Naturally, this guaranteed lots of great advice when I started clubbing.
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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 14, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Kiprop Kimutai |Lilian Mutinda |Bobby Mkangi
I am not sure whether I am awake or I am dreaming. I am also not sure what day of the week it is, but since we are having mukimo for supper, it must be Saturday. I am seven years old. My old man fishes out a video tape and pushes it into the mouth of the JVC video cassette recorder. The JVC swallows the video tape, gurgles for a bit, pretends to choke and then belches. After some manyunyu, images start to appear on our black kisogo Sony TV.
