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The Joys of Commentary

The Joys of Commentary

It's stoppage time of this World Cup quarter-final match. Argentina the Dutch have been slugging it out for t…

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The Train of Uhuru

The Train of Uhuru

A few months ago, my grandfather and I were in a colonial-era Nairobi hotel talking about Oginga Odinga, the …

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BARAKA - Homo Nairobi Mobilae: Walking in the city as a young man | The Elephant

BARAKA - Homo Nairobi Mobilae: Walking in the city as a young man | The Elephant

"Jamaa, si hukubali vitu nyingi sana sababu yaani society inatuforce tukubali." - Nonini Once, not long ago, …

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CAREY BARAKA - Forget Al Shabaab, the Police Are the Real Terrorists in Kenya | The Elephant

CAREY BARAKA - Forget Al Shabaab, the Police Are the Real Terrorists in Kenya | The Elephant

Rather than destroying the colonial system, what Kenyan leaders desired at independence was to replace the co…

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CAREY BARAKA - Religion and Politics: The Devil Is in the Details | The Elephant

CAREY BARAKA - Religion and Politics: The Devil Is in the Details | The Elephant

From the dawn of independence, the same old script of religious manipulation has thrived, writes CAREY BARAKA…

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BARAKA - Structural Adjustment, Revisionist History and Revelations from a Forgotten Past | The E...

BARAKA - Structural Adjustment, Revisionist History and Revelations from a Forgotten Past | The E...

1. "Sap? Ahh in full pls? Yohhh I'm legit outttttt."- Sandra, 23. I spent Mashujaa Day in a gallery in Kibera…

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Seven Literary Sins - The Dial

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By Carey Baraka Verified, Sabrina Jaszi, Anna Juul
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At the age of 13, I became addicted to stealing from other writers. It is what I call literary kleptomania. It started after I fell in love for the first time. She had green eyes, and I didn’t know what to do with the hungry fire inside me, so I fell ill with a fever. My grades were declining. My grandfather visited me, checked my temperature, and left a small book next to my bed. It was a study of Abu Nuwas, an Arabic poet (c.
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J.M. Coetzee and Language — The Dial

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By Carey Baraka Verified
| The Dial
And so Coetzee decided that El polaco would be his bludgeon against the dominance of English. The novel itself explores the complexities of language. Its two main characters — a Polish man and a Spanish woman — speak English to each other, since that is the language they have in common. But because both speak it as a foreign language, their conversation is often — deliberately — flat and flavorless.
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“The Sound of the Waves” by Carey Baraka — The Dial

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By Carey Baraka Verified
| The Dial
When I think of America, I remember the flags. They were everywhere — the national flag, state flags, college flags, and flags that indicated the flag bearer’s political beliefs: BLM flags, and ALM flags, and LGBTQI flags. I didn’t know people could care so much about flags. And, because it was the fall, the wind was brisk, and the flags all flew vigorously, so they looked very serious, whether on official flagpoles, or hung from people’s houses, or on their bumpers.
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