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Articles

How data journalists are uncovering the scale and patterns of femicide in Kenya

1 month ago | ijnet.org | Soila Kenya

In July 2024, Everlyn Namai dreamed that her missing cousin, 26-year-old Josephine Owino, came to her for help. “I’m here in the cold, in the water. Why have you left me here? Come get me,” Namai recounted Owino saying in the dream. This and other dreams reportedly experienced by Owino’s family members led to the shocking discovery of 10 sacks filled with dismembered body parts of at least eight Kenyan women.
Estas tiktokers nigerianas desafían la misoginia y los estereotipos de género

2 months ago | ijnet.org | Soila Kenya

Cada 10 minutos muere una mujer. No por accidentes de tránsito o al parir. Mueren asesinadas por su pareja o un familiar. Este tipo de violencia, conocida como feminicidio, ha recibido mayor atención en los últimos años debido al reconocimiento de su escalada. Es un foco de interés tan reciente que no fue hasta 2022 que ONU Mujeres, en colaboración con la ONUDD, creó un marco estadístico para medirlo. De acuerdo con los últimos datos, África tiene la mayor tasa de feminicidios del mundo.
These Nigerian women TikTokers are challenging harmful gender norms. Here's how.

2 months ago | ijnet.org | Soila Kenya

One woman is killed every 10 minutes. Not by road accidents or childbirth. But by an intimate partner or family member. This phenomenon, known as femicide, has gained more recognition in recent years due to an acknowledgement of its escalation. It is such a new point of interest that only in 2022 did UN Women in collaboration with UNODC create a statistical framework for measuring it. According to the latest data from UN Women, Africa is home to the highest rate of femicide.
A Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V

Jan 31, 2025 | jaylit.com | Soila Kenya

Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V narrates the current generation’s fears, hopes, and dreams, and presents them wrapped up within tales of the fantastical like banana leaves. The first Kenyan science fiction and fantasy literary journal Will This Be A Problem? has remained criminally underrated for the past 10 years of its existence.
For Rasna, From the Comrades

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.
Pen on in eternal power!

Jan 17, 2025 | debunk.media | Bobby Mkangi |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Lilian Mutinda |Soila Kenya

Although I never got to meet Rasna Warah in person, I feel like I knew her very well. This is because of her open, forthright, and provocative style of writing. I met her through her words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, tweets, and books, through which she effectively weaved and curated her thoughts and emotions. Her oeuvre was sincere, engaging and generous, to the extent that interacting with it over the years left me feeling like I personally knew her.
Go well, Rasna Warah

Jan 17, 2025 | debunk.media | Frank Njugi |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Soila Kenya |Lilian Mutinda

No account in regards to Kenyan letters and writing can be credibly written in which Rasna Warah won’t feature. As one of the central markers of Kenyan Journalism, here was one whose style of commentary on issues was arresting, and will always remain original to me. When I became a journalist, Rasna Warah was not just a source of inspiration, but someone who helped me find my journalistic voice.
Her work says we are possible, we are worthy

Jan 17, 2025 | debunk.media | Angel Lovely |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Soila Kenya |Lilian Mutinda

Rasna Warah was a bold African writer. I purposefully don’t use the term fearless as I doubt most people are. She wrote and she shared her work, and her portfolio is something to be proud of. I hope that as she passed, she was proud and content with her work. It is something to be admired especially because of the conditions under which she wrote. Bold. Admirable. I am happy and relieved that writers like her exist.
I’ll never forget her empathy

Jan 17, 2025 | debunk.media | Soila Kenya |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Lilian Mutinda |Eddy Ashioya

I didn’t know Rasna Warah personally, but our sole interaction gave me a glimpse into her kind soul. After writing an article on my struggles with anxiety on Debunk Media’s Public Square, Rasna, as a fellow writer on the platform, expressed her compassion and understanding to me on Twitter. She went ahead to suggest I try Ashwagandha. I never got to tell her I did and that I’ll never forget her empathy. As a journalist, I’ve known of Rasna’s work for years.
I can only say thank you to her

Jan 17, 2025 | debunk.media | Abigail Arunga |Isaac Otidi Amuke |Lilian Mutinda |Soila Kenya

All you really want, when you get into the messy, highly guarded, ruthless world of writing, full of mostly unwarranted ego and an editor who hates you, is for someone to read you. Anyone, really. Of course you want to write for yourself, but you want someone else to agree with you. You want one person to read you and change their mind because of your logic, or your wit, or even by chance, you know? Anyway, it happens.