Culture

A graffiti primer from back in the day…look for our piece on Nairobi graffiti coming in the July issue of UP Nairobi

Tell UP: how do we define AFRO anything?

“Eye in the Sky” is another example of the whitewashing and black tar brushing that Hollywood loves to use to control the narrative about the “other”. Katy Fentress reviews the film and challenges these underhanded tactics.

Davina Leonard performed the final showing of her international, sensational one woman play: Making It!

The 10 most important stories you need to know from the first week of June, 2016

I can still remember the first time I read an X-Men comic. I was eleven, it was a battered copy of The X-Men #1 from my uncle’s collection, the very first appearance of Jean Grey -who evolved from Marvel Girl to the Phoenix and finally into the Dark Phoenix.