Kilifi residents march during a community sensitisation campaign against GBV and femicide at Bofa youths’ grounds. [File, Standard] One of the ways I marked the recently ended 16 Days Against Violence was by drawing out a strategy outlining five routes to bring about the vision of a Kenya that works for women, for a local women’s rights organisation. Ruminating on it after, I realised that despite fleshing out the five key pathways towards this (in summary, harnessing the realms of politics, business, culture, security, and community) one crucial feature was missing. This feature was the question of how to enable…
Author: By Kingwa Kamencu
Police keep vigil during Saba Saba protests in Kitengela, on July 7, 2025. [Collins Oduor, Standard] July 20 was pivotal day in the history of the world. It was the date of birth of Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary Martiniquian psychologist who chronicled the psychology of post-colonial people’s in classic texts including Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He is perhaps most known for his quote: “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.” In his work, Fanon dealt with how unhealed trauma acted as a block for post-colonial people’s transformation. Black…