Arts & Culture
Love, lies, TikTok take centre stage in Luo comedy ‘Nyuka Onge Kwero’ Nyuka Onge Kwero (Pok Imetho?), a Luo comedy play by Abila Production, addresses love triangles. Staged at the Nairobi Cinema on Valentine’s Day, the play begins with Nyakablack…
The ‘Matatu Musical’ cast during their rehearsals. [Courtesy] Wangarĩ Maathai Too Early for Birds returns in April with the staging of its ninth show at the Jain Bhavan Auditorium in Loresho. Fifteen years after her passing, the collective…
Art: Ian Gichohi reimagines how photographs can exist on paper Ian Gichohi’s first solo photography exhibition,…
‘Landscapes from Home’ exhibition brings Kenyan stories to London Landscapes from Home, a group exhibition bringing…
An entrance at the Little Theatre Club in Mombasa County on Friday 5th November 2021. [Kelvin…
Parenting burnout: The new silent crisis in families Mary Kaimuri is a working mother who loves her children fiercely. The mother of two plans their meals, tracks homework on WhatsApp groups, remembers PE days, dentist appointments, and birthdays. She also…
Grok: How bikini photo manipulation by Musk’s AI sparked worldwide crackdown The global tech landscape was, in the early days of 2026, rocked by a…
Arts & Culture Weekly Round Up
Beyond the classroom: How teachers sexually prey on innocent learners In June, a court in Murang’a handed down a 30-year sentence to Edward Kamau,…
Poet turns pain into art in second book ‘In the Absence of Presence’ J.O. Bernard’s In the Absence of Presence, a collection of poems,…
Lilly Ajarova [Courtesy] At a recent launch event in Nairobi’s leafy suburb, the air was thick with excitement. Guests mingled over glasses of wine…
2025: Kenyan theatre beams with new voices, return of classics This year saw the re-staging of several classic works by theatre veterans, introducing a…