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Abigail Arunga

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As seen in: Elite Daily, Daily Nation, Nation Africa, AllAfrica, The Citizen (Tanzania), This Is Africa (ZA), Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, Debunk.media, Sinema Focus
Author: Akello, a side of raunch. Editor. Publicist. MC. Columnist. Scriptwriter. @ruganobooks COO. Quizmeister. Culture Writer @debunkdotmedia. Adulting?

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Abigail Arunga is a writer, author (Akello, A Side of Raunch, The Mysteries of Jabali and Sauti, Siri ya Mwezi) editor, columnist, moderator, scriptwriter, influencer, publicist, poet, copywriter, bookstore owner, quizmaster, podcaster, and MC. She’s passionate about the arts, pop culture, current affairs, and social justice. Abigail is invested in how to sleep more, anti-capitalism, virulent feminism, and good fiction.

You can read her writing on the Daily Nation, Nation Online, Akoroko, Sine…

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Opinion: Honouring the legacy of Wangari Maathai

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By Abigail Arunga Verified
| Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Verified
Too Early For Birds is putting on yet another masterpiece in the month of April, and this time, the historical retelling is focused on Wangarĩ Maathai. For those who are somehow not familiar, Dr Wangarĩ Maathai was the first Kenyan to win a Nobel Peace Prize – first Kenyan to win a Nobel anything, really, and there hasn’t been another since.
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I can only say thank you to her

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By Abigail Arunga Verified, Isaac Otidi Amuke, Lilian Mutinda
| Debunk.media Verified
All you really want, when you get into the messy, highly guarded, ruthless world of writing, full of mostly unwarranted ego and an editor who hates you, is for someone to read you. Anyone, really. Of course you want to write for yourself, but you want someone else to agree with you. You want one person to read you and change their mind because of your logic, or your wit, or even by chance, you know? Anyway, it happens.
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Our Land, Our Freedom: the unabridged review

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By Abigail Arunga Verified
| akello.co.ke
Our Land, Our Freedom, is the seminal documentary of the year on post-colonial Kenya, and its relationship to those who fought for it. In other words, this is a movie that will move you, anger you, and potentially even radicalize you – as is the case with any movie about Kenya’s fraught history. This is your official trigger warning (this review’s summarized version is on sinemafocus.com).
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