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The Tide Malindi Didn't Order: A Beach Festival, a Moral Panic, and the Question of Who the Coast Is For

Summertides brought thousands of spending young Kenyans to Malindi — and a clergy-led call to ban it. Beneath the morality row sits a harder question about the coast's economy.

2 months ago4 min

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The Mother Tongue in the Machine: How an AI Gamble Over Kiswahili Could Decide What the Diaspora's Children Inherit

As East Africa marks World Kiswahili Language Day in Bujumbura, a bet on artificial intelligence may decide whether Kenyan families abroad keep the language at all.

2 months ago5 min

The Radcliffe Camera and Oxford's historic skyline under a blue sky, host city of the Kenyans in UK Festival

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The Long Afternoon at Horspath: Oxford Counts Down to the Day Kenyan Britain Comes Home to Itself

2 months ago5 min

Workers picking tea on the green rolling hills of Nandi County in Kenya's Rift Valley

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Seven Bedrooms and a Money Cake: The Surprise an Australia-Based Daughter Carried Home to Nandi

2 months ago4 min

The terminal building at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, where bodies of Kenyans who die abroad arrive home.

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The Price of the Last Flight Home: Zack Apella's Family Faces a KSh 4 Million Bill to Bury Him in Kenya

2 months ago5 min

Ginger-coated Tamworth pigs foraging on open pasture, the traditional breed Flavian Obiero raises on his Hampshire farm

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The Farmer They Didn't Expect: How a Teenager From Kilifi Became Britain's Kenyan Pig Farmer

2 months ago5 min

A festival crowd with hands raised at dusk, celebrating live music together

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The Song That Crossed the Sea: How a Kikuyu Homecoming Festival Keeps Britain's Kenyans Rooted

2 months ago5 min

Close-up of vivid, multicoloured paint strokes evoking a painter's creative process and palette

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Born at Night: How a Kenyan-German Painter Made the Los Angeles Art World Look Twice

2 months ago5 min

A home recording studio with a microphone and pop shield, mixing gear, keyboard and electric bass guitar.

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The Scholarship He Set Aside: How a Nairobi Singer's Gamble Found a Home on Apple's Platoon

2 months ago6 min

Visitors viewing framed paintings on white walls inside a contemporary art gallery with wood flooring

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The Wine Bar That Became a Gallery: How Two Kenyan Painters Are Carrying Home to a London Street

2 months ago6 min

A person holds a smartphone with a glowing screen in the dark at night

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Goodbye on a Live Feed: How a Kenyan TikTok Star's Death in Philadelphia Bound a Diaspora in Grief

2 months ago5 min

Visitors stand together looking at framed paintings on the wall at an art gallery exhibition

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The Wine Bar on Kingsland Road: How Two Kenyan Painters Are Turning a Hackney Corner Into a Map of Belonging

2 months ago6 min

Wide view of Jumeirah Beach in Dubai with calm Persian Gulf waters under a clear sky

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The Beach That Took Skullchrusher: How One Kenyan Creator's Death in Dubai Shook the Diaspora's Online Family

2 months ago5 min

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o at the 2024 Berlinale film festival in Berlin, where she served as jury president.

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Dreams Are Valid: How Lupita Nyong'o Turned One Oscar Into a Map for Kenya's Creative Diaspora

3 months ago5 min

A live music performance on a lit stage with a crowd silhouetted in front

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The Train From Central Kenya Now Stops in America: How Mugithi Became the Sound of a Diaspora Summer

3 months ago4 min