A story of how my dearest friend, Lillian, and I grew up with the Busia Malaba road. It all begins in our childhood when as girls we would race cars whilst ridding her dad’s black mamba bicycle. Growing up, I had a friend from Alupe, a university town neighborhood in the vicinity of Busia town. … Read more
This section of Part 1 of our three part series that honors the memory of the heroes of the Chetambe war, remembers freedom fighter Wakoli khwa Mukisu. Wakoli is a shujaa who modern Kenya criminally chooses to forget. He was the mastermind of the first phase of the BaBukusu resistance that culminated in victory for … Read more
The aim of this article is to teleport the reader back to a struggle for emancipation in colonial Kenya that, in our view, has been criminally forgotten. Our objective is that by the series end we would have done justice to the remembrance of the shujaas of Chetambe war. To realize our goal, we will … Read more
