AO: decolonization emerged several times - “decolonize our writing” (to make them accessible to broader publics); questioning the benefits of research and how to make research more...Read more
TM: The global COVID 19 pandemic has sliced the lives of people like a hot knife to butter. During times like these it is the most vulnerable in the society that often times bear the brunt. This has been the reality for the residents of Kibera who despite knowing the threat that COVID 19...Read more
AO: This article proposes that Nairobi's nickname of "Silicon Savanna" stems from "Kenya's love for IT." The author then goes on to suggest that the moniker "neatly...Read more
Kim asked the group: "What do you worry about related to open data in Kenya... Tell me a little bit about what would be a disappointing result, 10 years from now with open data...Read more
I find it interesting that in the entire article, which includes descriptions about tech helping to fill voids on the "dark continent", race is not mentioned once. In the...Read more
Transcript from Focus Group Discussion
October 29, 2019
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Social Hall in Kibera
Participants: 3 men and 2 women who reside in Kibera and have regularly participated (as both subjects and also enumerators) in various research projects; 1...Read more
Transcript from one-on-one interview
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
10:16 AM – 11:44 AM
Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)
Participant: Non-Kenyan woman with kinship ties to the...Read more
This blog post builds on ongoing discussions in the Nairobi tech space where race-based privilege is being increasingly articulated to describe the unequal playing ground that black Kenyan founders and white expatriate founders face when looking for start-up capital. This post focuses on the 30...Read more
AO: Mike Sonko responded to the COVID-19 crisis in Kenya by distributing care packages to hospitals and the controversial aspect was that he included alcohol in the packages.Read more
This article written in July 2008 is particularly interesting to me because of when it was written. It predates the slew of international media coverage on tech development in Nairobi (most of which was written in 2010 - 2012) and the article also touches on some of the cultural orientations...Read more