nairobi min(e)d

bonus - 420 ten year challenge 25.11.2024 4:20 ↓

love

ep 24: I am here 05.05.2024 2:17 ↓

beginning my 5th decade around the sun, and I am grateful, may the wind always beneath our wings

ep 23: i wish my parents loved me 05.05.2024 2:00 ↓

i think they really love me, for real but sometimes, it feels like this.. thank you mom and dad

ep 22: about rich dad 19.09.2023 2:49 ↓

living with rich dad has been learning about race and racism, something that rarely bothers me when I am with poor dad

ep 21: Passe-port aka I wish our father loved us 14.06.2023 4:51 ↓

Will I be stuck here foré? Will daddy stop beating us?

ep 20: into the woods 28.03.2023 2:42 ↓

quitting, again gnawing feels, this isn't it have to listen to the journey

ep 19: fem danger (t-o-w longbeard) 15.03.2023 3:29 ↓

women are carrying a beautiful, but dangerous femininity it puts you in trouble even when you're just trying to go about your day.. In honour of International Women's Day 2023

ep 18: ghost 👻 09.02.2023 2:04 ↓

I went away, now I'm back. I still don't know a lot.

ep 17: you don't have to be nice 09.11.2022 9:13 ↓

notes about "niceness" to my younger self. mentions of street harassment and nairoberry, the beautiful cruel city.

episode 16: grinding, but so empty 02.12.2021 2:33 ↓

In the end, it's just the sheer emptiness that is defeating. I want my time back, all of it..

episode 15: me, I fear Kenyan men 1 23.11.2021 2:38 ↓

cases of femicide put the unholy fear in my heart. stay safe.

episode 14: If Immigrants Told No Lies.. 22.11.2021 3:29 ↓

what a thought!

episode 13: (Kiswahili) Learning to be broke 19.11.2021 2:49 ↓

Brokeness 101, lesson muhimu kaNairo. You might need to have a freezer, but then you'd no longer be broke, haha.. (:

episode 12: (Kiswahili) Kenyans are so warm 19.11.2021 5:25 ↓

"Kenyans are so friendly!!" I have heard this a lot and living in Kenya I must admit I didn't really understand what I was being told. In other words, kutembea majuu ndio kujua wakenya tunakuaga warm, maisha majuu ni coooold!!

episode 11: the burden of explanation 19.11.2021 5:50 ↓

It is heavy. And sometimes insurmountable. I am learning..

episode 10: the burden of privilege 16.09.2021 1:56 ↓

Title really speaks for itself..

episode 09: decolonising the Nairobi mind 21.08.2021 3:17 ↓

Welcome to season 2. This episode is about decolonisation as a personal experience.

ep. 08: deserted spaces 02.02.2021 3:59 ↓

you're walking down a crowded street, you make a turn and all of a sudden, there is no one in sight. you're all alone walking this street. what goes through your mind?

ep. 07: african time 02.02.2021 3:52 ↓

you are an african timer, you never keep time, you're just an african timer, unapenda kuchelewa.. the recording in the beginning is from a Radiolab podcast about the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) - aka The Mau Mau, a pro-independence force active during the state of emergency in the 1950s in colonial Kenya. all material belongs to Radiolab, i own none of that. in case you'd like to hear the e...

ep. 06: speaking English 31.01.2021 3:11 ↓

aka International Appeal, is it weird for an African to speak so much English?

ep. 05: living outside nairobi 30.01.2021 4:52 ↓

aka rich kid problems? nilitoka mtaani nikadevelop some first world problems, haha..

ep. 04: ugali 30.01.2021 3:47 ↓

foreigners always hatin', but they don't get it, ugali is a lifestyle!!

ep. 03: i miss fruits 30.01.2021 1:43 ↓

masaibu ya maisha ya majuu

ep. 02: it's not safe for women 29.01.2021 4:25 ↓

it really isn't..

ep. 01: 1997 29.01.2021 3:14 ↓

thoughts on 1997, Moi, NARC, Nairobi, Kenya