INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Nikita Kering
Singer-songwriter
Nikita Kering, a two-time All Africa Music Award (AFRIMA) winner and the youngest person ever to win the Best Female Artist in Eastern Africa award at just 17 years old, has taken the country by storm with her soulful vocals and talent for songwriting. Her singing career, which she started as a child, has allowed her to tour the world and granted her a scholarship to one of the most prestigious and exclusive schools in Kenya.
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Beth Koigi
InventorBy 2025, 1.85 billion people in the world will be living in water scarcity. Countries will be going to war for water. But some people don't have to wait until 2025 to experience this reality of water scarcity; lack of water is a reality that Beth Koigi knows all too well. Beth decided that she couldn't sit around and do nothing. She soon came up with an invention that could change the course of history.
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Pride SeriesSeries of interviews with LGBTQ+ youth in KenyaLGBTQ+ people are not only looked down upon in Kenya, their existence is also criminalized. In this series of interviews, I had conversations with several LGBTQ+ Kenyan youth about their experiences in a country that largely, and at times even violently, espouses heteronormative ideals.
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Aya Chebbi
AU Youth Envoy & Pan-African feministAya is the first ever African Union Youth Envoy and is the youngest person in the Chairperson's cabinet. She has travelled the world as a scholar, mentor, blogger, pan-Africanist, and feminist. She has received many accolades to her name, including being named amongst the world's 2018 top 100 most influential young people in government alongside heavy hitters like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here she is, in her own words.
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Bluinse Thomas
Human rights lawyer & creative on YoutubeBluinse Thomas is what happens when you just live your life and chase your dreams regardless of your inhibitions. The story of Bluinse Thomas is the story of a young woman who, time after time, takes leaps and bounds into the unknown and comes out victorious.
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What Female Heart Attack Survivors Want You To KnowAn interview with 10 female heart attack survivors
Heart attacks are made especially deadly by the fact that their symptoms can often be hard to notice. Furthermore, women are more likely than men to have atypical heart attack symptoms, making them less likely to seek treatment. I talked with 10 women who are heart attack survivors. Here's what they say you should know about heart attacks.
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Halle RuberaTop student in Kenya and rising Wellesley seniorThis summer, Christine Halleluya Rubera, also known by the mononym Halle, made her way back to Rwanda for the holidays as she always does. But this time around, she was there for business, not pleasure. As a recipient of the Davis Projects for Peace grant, Halle was on a mission to build icyumba cy'umukobwa in Rwanda, where her family is from.
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Melissa Ida PettyFace of Kenya U.K. 2017-2018Melissa Ida Petty is many things. She is a Law student, she is a ballroom and Latin dancer, she is a YouTuber, she is Face of Kenya U.K. 2017-2018, and she is a humanitarian. And she is just 22! I caught up with her to learn who she is, in her own words.
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