Arts & Culture
John Katana, Suzanne Gachukia Opembe, Eric Musyoka and Angela Ndambuki (photo by Bernard Orwongo) Kenya’s rich and ever-evolving music story is finally getting the spotlight it deserves and it is loud, proud and unapologetically Kenyan. The Recording Industry of Kenya…
Artist Adlan Yousif explores loss through fragmented sculptures Adlan Yousif explores deprivation through fragmented sculptures, rebuilding discarded materials into human figures. His subjects are never whole. The bodies are deliberately incomplete, reflecting fragmentation both in material and lived…
Kenyan literary giants face off in 2026 TBC Penmanship Awards The deadline to vote for your…
Artists rally to support veteran Patrick Mukabi’s medical care with benefit exhibition Two exhibitions are running…
Shangwe T. Khalwale explores endometriosis, identity in debut novel ‘Journey Through Her Twenties’
Journey Through Her Twenties, a debut novel by Shangwe T. Khalwale (R) Joeni thought her twenties…
Nalani Njeri Ngunyi, who plays Sarafina in a collaboration between Igiza Arts Production and Kirawa Road School. [Courtesy] The seminal musical Sarafina! returns to the stage this April in a school production by Igiza Arts Production in collaboration with Kirawa…
Amina Hamisi had spent most of her married life raising children and supporting her husband’s fishing business in Mombasa. When her last-born left for university, the silence…
Arts & Culture Weekly Round Up
Co-Founder picha museum Joel Lukhovi during the picha museum preview at the cinema rooftop Unseen Nairobi along 623 woodavenue , NairobI on 19th June 2025 [David Gichuru,Standard]…
Rita Paulsen and run under Benchmark Production 360 (photo courtesy) For years, Kenya has been Bongo flava’s second home. Long before streaming and TikTok…
The late Papa Wemba performs at a past event [File/Standard] On April 24, 2016, the sun set on an illustrious son of Africa and…
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,…
