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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.

17 days ago4 min

A teacher leans over students working on laptops in a classroom, guiding their learning

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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.

18 days 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

18 days 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

21 days 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

23 days 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

23 days 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

24 days 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

25 days 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

25 days 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

25 days 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

25 days 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

27 days 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

28 days 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

about 1 month 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

about 1 month ago4 min