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Avant Cinema, is an initiative of Diaspora Media, managed and curated by Danni Karanja. Danni is an active filmmaker in both fiction and documentary genres. He comes with his previous repertoire of projects that have spanned his modest 8 years of filmmaking, starting at first as a dishwasher turned renegade guerrilla filmmaker in the streets of Montreal, Canada, to

By: Nivi Sharma, President of BRCK Education, co-founder of e-Limu As the tiny bubble on Ngong Road we call “Silicon Savannah” basks in the warm afterglow of Mark Zuckerberg’s visit, an important question is being echoed: is technology truly making a difference in Kenya? In my even smaller “EdTech” bubble, we are constantly being asked

By Andreas Hansen (First published for Addis Rumble, September 2013) Driving north from Nairobi on the new ‘super highway’ the Kilimambogo hills rise slowly ahead of us. My co-driver is Emmanuel Mwendwa who has spent the past two years researching, licensing, collecting old photos and doing liner notes for the Kenya Special compilation recently released

By Rand Pearson Imagine sitting on your phone during the up-coming Kenya elections and looking at an application mapping voting wards and districts; within each district map are the candidates running for office; click on the candidate and a profile pops up with every detail imaginable on that person, including financial records, wealth declaration forms,

  by Millicent Muthoni (Music Africa) On a breezy Thursday evening in August, I find myself strolling along Aga Khan Walk in Nairobi’s CBD. The streets and avenues are too congested with evening traffic and this major pedestrian spine offers a less headache-inducing alternative. Aga Khan Walk is exciting, because it could throw anything at you