The Issue is set against the backdrop of the 2007/2008 post-election violence. Bringing together images from The Earth Festival :AQVA, works from celebrated ceramicist Magdalene Odundo, an excerpt from Wole Soyinka, poetry from Shailja Patel and pieces from other contributions.
Editorial Board
Bantu Mwaura, Pat Kamau, Mueni Lundi, Kwamchetsi Makokha, Kimani Njogu, Joyce Njoki Kimani, G. Oluoch-Olunya
Issue Editor: Garnette Oluoch-Olunya
Design & Layout: Victor Gitonga Twenty Twenty Design
Cover Photo: Dickson Migiro Back Cover: Courtesy Kuki Gallman
Contents
Watered with Blood by Mshaï Mwangola
Migritude by JKS Makokha
When Saris Speak by Shailja Patel
Pavement Democracy by Tom Odhiambo
All Kenyan… All The Time –K24 by D. N. Kimotho
Tamthilia by Enock Matundura
Nairobi Theatre Academy/Alliance Française by Harsita Waters
Nollywood by Abdalla Uba Adamu
‘Pale Pale’: Sexual Healing by Mbugua Wa Mungai
The Monologues by Mumbi Kaigwa
The Gender Roundtable by Godwin Murunga
Making Music, Changing Lives by Atigala Luvai
‘Colonising’ Space by C. J. Odhiambo
Tamasha la Nchi za Jahazi by Yvonne A. Owuor
The Murumbi Collection by Kwamchetsi Makokha
Retreat to Moral Space: Radio Theatre by Dina Ligaga
Speaking in Images: GenerationKenya by Wambui Mwangi
An Encomium for Aimé Césaire by Stephen Partington
Book Review: Swahili Beyond Boundaries – Kimani Njogu