Category: commentary
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Creative Industries and Development in Africa
Last month, musician, producer and DJ Blinky Bill tweeted “You go to Joburg, Lagos, Accra it’s very rare to hear Kenyan music and it’s a big disservice to the artists doing the work here to not be at the forefront pushing the sounds.” This is not the first time that I had come across this…
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Expectations & Acceptance
For almost 2 years we’ve all been scrambling, in one way or another, to grasp onto a sliver of the normal we knew, but this moment is the closest we will be to normal ever. The world will never be the same again.
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I’m spending a lot of time online
How much time do you think you spent online this year? I feel like I spent an obscene amount and I honestly can’t tell you where the year went. I’m convinced that we live in some version of the Truman Show and someone’s revved this up to 2.5x speed.
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Voice is the Next Marketing Frontier
Despite what the past decade has tried to convince us of branding is not new. It is the same principles that mass media conglomerates used to use, that has now been repurposed for the age of social media. I guess what most companies weren’t anticipating was that gaming videos from a teenager in Jakarta could…
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Why You Need To Own Your Platform
In the past couple of months I have been spending time gathering all of my work online – my photography, writing , digital content etc – and housing them on this site, which has always been home to my blog and a little photography but it wasn’t an accurate and detailed representation of what I…
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Decriminalising Drugs
Often times when the topic of decriminalisation of drugs come up, many debates are rooted in our own experiences and less so the detrimental effects that criminalisation has on marginalised communities, women, young people, farmers etc, not to mention that addiction is a real disorder and should be treated as such.
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The Surprising Reason Why Some Women Choose to Dress Modestly
I came across a clip from The Real, where the hosts are discussing whether they’ve ever found themselves dressing more modestly in order to avoid being judged by other women. The discussion was kicked off by the findings of a study found in the Social Psychological and Personality Science Journal, which aimed to explore women’s…
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The Concept of Virginity Needs to Disappear…Expeditiously
Next week (12-14 Nov) is the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, which is the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development which was held in Cairo in the 90s, which brought together 179 governments to put together and action plan on how to “set out to empower women and girls for their sake,…
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