Women Made Out of Animals, Machines and Monsters
A Kenyan-born, Brooklyn-based artist is getting her first American museum show.Wangechi Mutu's retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum features collages, videos and installations that explore themes like...
View ArticleCut and Run
Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying,...
View ArticleTRBQ: Why Do We Share?
Are humans basically selfish, or basically giving? That's the question up for debate in this second episode of the six-part series The Really Big Questions. Host Dean Olsher explores how and why humans...
View ArticleBeing LGBT in Kenya
"Ken" is an activist working to advance the rights of LGBT people in rural communities and refugee camps in northern Kenya. He's supported by the American Jewish World Service. For security reasons, we...
View ArticleA summit of African leaders in Washington tries to move beyond 'speed dating'
The US is hosting its first-ever summit of leaders from across Africa, but the short timeframe and large number of attendees means that meaningful dialogue might be hard to achieve.
View ArticleAfrican Crossover Music
For this New Sounds, listen to musicians from Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K., and Italy working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Hear the late...
View ArticleAfrican immigrants in Colorado are finding their political voice
In Colorado, Africans are second only to Latin Americans among the state's immigrant populations. Until now, they've been largely absent from Colorado's politics, but new candidates and civic groups...
View ArticleKenya considers its security on the anniversary of the Westgate mall siege
One year ago, Somali terrorists stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, leading to an armed siege that lasted four days and killed 67 people. Now, at the first anniversary of the attack, Kenyans...
View ArticleOutside Westgate
In the wake of public tragedy there is a space between the official narrative and the stories of the people who experienced it. Today, we crawl inside that space and question the role of journalists in...
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At the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City, Kipchoge Keino overcame a gall bladder infection to win gold in the 1500 meter race. Since then, one particular group of Kenyans - the Kalenjin - has...
View ArticleAl Shabab Terror Group Targets Students in Kenya
Al Shabab, a terror group affiliated with Al Qaeda that operates out of East Africa, has taken responsibility for an attack on students at a university in northeast Kenya, near the border with...
View ArticleKenyan Military Strikes Al-Shabab
In Somalia, the Kenyan military has begun bombing positions held by the militant group Al-Shabab. The bombing campaign comes less than a week after the terrorist group attacked Kenya's Garissa...
View ArticleMau Mau
Just down the road from a pub in rural Hanslope Park, England is a massive building — the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known. This is the story of a few documents that...
View ArticleMau Mau Deleted Scene
Here's a deleted scene from our latest podcast. I wish we didn't have to delete it. Maybe we didn't have to. But we just couldn't figure out where to put this little bit of conversation. The...
View ArticleWriters Roundtable: Building a Better Future in Africa
Click on the audio player above to hear this story.President Obama heads to the African continent this week, making his first trip as president to his father's homeland of Kenya, and then he'll stop...
View ArticleA Popular Obama Returns from East Africa
President Barack Obama is back on U.S. soil after touring East Africa for five days. The president used his visit and his popularity to discuss some of the vast issues facing the region.“He appeared...
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[Unedited] Binyavanga Wainaina With Krista Tippett
We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and...
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Binyavanga Wainaina — The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective [remix]
We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and...
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[Unedited] Wangari Maathai with Krista Tippett
This unedited interview with Wangari Maathai was recorded in 2006 and is included in our show, "Planting the Future." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.
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Wangari Maathai — Planting the Future [remix]
A remarkable Kenyan woman and environmentalist speaks from experience about the links between ecology, human flourishing, war and peace, and democracy. And she shares her thoughts on where God resides.
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