Books

The art of listening eludes our leaders

President’s interview with the media left a lot to be desired

How Ruto can tame ire of Gen Z

Listening to the people rather than imposing tax vision is the way to go

Parable of an African child named X

E student succeeded in life, treated teachers to chapati and tea

How to tame young Kenyan men

Marriage sobers up care-free men who would assault police officers

Celebrating audiobooks as a rising literary innovation

They allow for multitasking and passive listening on transit

Book tells all about the ‘upside-down tree’

The baobab tree is suspected to live for up to 2,000 years

The day Wanga-Bukusu war broke out

It was inevitable after the Bukusu rejected call to surrender

How Bukusu fell afoul of divide-and-rule

Thomson’s travels led to him to the realise regional rivalries

Scholars advocate for local solutions in African integration

Seek unity over division, scholars advise

How Maasai invasion pushed the Luhya

They displaced the Bukusu who in turn displaced the Sabaots

13 decades of anticolonial memory

Wanga power was real at the time the Mzungu came to Kenya

Fiction tapped in climate change advocacy

Cli-fi depicts degrading habitat and prompts action to save it

Performing arts through radio on the rise

It is a beacon of infotainment amid sensational talk shows

Folk music and masculinity in Western

Micah Wanyenje is shining as folk songs usher in initiation season

Petals of the Sun: Tribute to the comrades KU lost

The university is grappling with profound sorrow and disbelief

Happy Good Friday and death of Lenten tales

There is no love lost when would-be lovers have a fatal embrace

Lent nights and the road to Damascus

Mhesh suffers a moment of weakness at a dim pub in Githurai