Field Notes: The Dutch, Holy Bicycles, Unwritten Laws, and the Crime They All Agree to Ignore
Field Notes: The Dutch, Holy Bicycles, Unwritten Laws, and the Crime They All Agree to Ignore
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The Sex Museum
We now live in a world where the driving force of technologies that define everyday life are pioneered by the military and the porn industry. Pornsites are able to accumulate data that helps them create content that appeals to precise tastes. To put things in perspective, 125 million people visit Pornhub daily and its not even the pornographic site with the most traffic.
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Ruud Gullit’s Barber
Stadhouderskade is a teeming thoroughfare in the heart of Amsterdam, part of the city centre ring connecting Amsterdam-West to Amsterdam-South. It begins at a bridge over the Amstel river snakes…
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Benjamin Ayimba: The Making of a Rugby Great
On April 17th 2016, the Kenyan rugby fraternity was ecstatic. It felt good to be Kenyan. We had finally arrived. The impossible had been achieved. Kenya 7s had won the…
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The Making Of Fatherless Nation
In reality, the Fathers of our Nation are more often than not tragic hero figures consumed by hubris, drunk on power, and entrapped by personality flaws. The result is the persistent violence and brutalization of a nation of children who might dare to challenge their legitimacy.
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Slay Queens, Socialites And Sponsors: Sexual Violence in Kenyan Society
As a society we have to move from this narrow idea of only demanding justice when it directly benefits us. Sexual violence is not a woman’s problem. It is a societal problem and demands the active participation of men as conscious allies in the struggle for a just society for all.
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Children Of A Revolution That Never Was
When I name my defining Kenyan traumas, I start with ’82, the year that I first experienced the existential angst of Kenya’s middle class.
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Let’s Talk About Sex Shaming
Sexual education has been outsourced to the porn industry and framed within religious and morality codes, which has neutered the notion of sex for pleasure.
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Sex, Power And The Culture Of Silence It Thrives In
“A great man once said, everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power”.
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Of Friendships Lost And Found
The intriguing thing about old friendships is that people can grow separately without growing apart. For true friendships can be resuscitated after 20 years with something as little as two worded whatsapp message.
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