Westlands Rd in the Nairobi’s conurbation is fast becoming New York’s 5th Ave. New money. GTC, JW Marriott, tall and sleek apartment buildings coming up on both sides of the street. Everywhere you look– Kilimani, Upper Hill, Ngara… the smell of opulence and its skyward rising is jostling for space with human traffic in a…
Seeing Mark Smith’s “Emerging” in person was an absolute treat. Inspiring is an understatement. Two things set my mind on fire as I stood there transfixed: 1- the revolution underway in the land of my birth as the sounds and images stream in; 2- the fresh reminder of the shocking scourge of homelessness in cities…
When someone with inherited privileged chooses to experience the struggles of those the privileged class looks down upon, it is called class appropriation. Especially if that person proceeds to make that experience part of their public story. They create an imaginary “hustler glory”, and they do so for their own strategic gain. It is like…