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Latest culture stories.
Eric Omondi spent a weekend in custody over 120 empty water containers. For Kenyans abroad who grew up on his comedy, the case is about more than traffic.
A Cameroonian-German novelist came to Nairobi to talk about being Black in Germany — and to hug a tree planted by the Kenyan laureate who first taught her she was not a victim.
From Spokane to Seattle, Jose Gatutura's summer tour is using a Kikuyu guitar tradition to gather a scattered diaspora — one sold-out night at a time.
Pamela Mburo sits eighth in a national online cooking contest with a $25,000 prize — and a plan to put Kenyan street food on American streets.
A winger born in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp has made Australia's World Cup squad — and from Fed Square to Darling Harbour, East Africans across Australia are organising to watch together.
Mang'u sent its boys home at dawn, Alliance lost a store to fire, and sixteen girls died in Gilgil. For diaspora parents wiring fees home, a school term is unravelling an ocean away.
US Customs and Border Protection has reminded travellers that bushmeat, most meat products and undeclared produce cannot cross its borders — a list that reads differently when a suitcase carries the taste of home.
Mulamwah's quiet graduation from a state-funded course in Liaoning lifts the curtain on how Kenya's creative class is being courted, trained and tracked by Beijing.
Every June, a single Saturday in a Stockholm park draws Kenyans from five Nordic countries. This year, the politics of diaspora voting and a presidential visit to Helsinki have raised the stakes.
A women's rugby coach who took Kenya's Lionesses to Tokyo was killed on Interstate 405. A month later, a flat in Everett and two volunteers from Seattle walked his coffin to JKIA and on toward Siaya.