What I have been enjoying this week. Some articles… Some books… Some music… I can be hopelessly cliche when it comes to my music taste, as you will soon find. I haven’t listened to music much this week, but here’s three songs I have on repeat, and a bonus playlist
The Kenya DCI twitter account is copaganda
Police glorification in media is now an ordinary part of the zeitgeist, so much so that there’s an every-day word for it: copaganda. Copaganda is ubiquitous and comes in varied forms, with its most recognizable, virulent and studied form being television cop shows. It is not by accident that of the five longest running US…
Javier Marias’ A Heart So White is a book about nothing and everything
During the Christmas holidays I randomly asked a friend to read the first chapter of A Heart So White. I was interested in observing how this person who is not in any book spaces at all, and certainly has no idea who Javier Marias is would react to a neutral introduction to him. They read…
Thomas Sankara Speaks, 35 Years On
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The 15 October 2022, about a month from now, will mark exactly 35 years since Thomas Sankara, the Burkinabe revolutionary, was murdered. It is another opportunity for Pan-Africanists, socialists and admirers of Sankara to commemorate and reflect on his legacy. This is necessary, at a time when the continental problems he illuminated are particularly devastating…
The Politics of Debt Part 1: Student Debt and Why it Must be Abolished
Earlier this week, the High Court of Kenya issued a judgement stopping the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) from imposing interest rates and penalties that are double the principal loan to beneficiaries. This judgement found that HELB was acting in contravention of Article 27 and sections of Article 43 of the constitution and extended the…