By John-Allan Namu We stood shoulder to shoulder with one another, thousands of us. We swayed this way and that, many parts of one thing, as each branch on a tree...
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By John-Allan Namu Five years ago in June, I first set eyes on Alika. She was asleep in a private room within the children’s ward of the Aga Khan hospital in Nairobi. It...
By John-Allan Namu May 16th, 2020 1: 43p.m News of the arrest in Paris, France, of Felicien Kabuga, the man long accused of funding the genocide against the Tutsi in...
Secretly recorded conversation reveals that senior members of the Oshwal community tried to “sell” Alika to keep parents out of prison The recording referenced in this...
On the 27th of July 2018, Mr. and Mrs. J*, the parents of now seven-year-old *Alika, walked into the warm morning sunshine outside the Milimani law courts. If only...
The Panama Papers revealed that numerous African politicians have stored wealth in off-shore accounts. But how did the money get there? A transnational team of...
On 10th June this year, Alika celebrated her seventh birthday in the company of friends and family. Her thin lips curled into a crooked smile that slumps ever so...
Eight minutes before midnight on the 22nd of September 2015, a curious status update was posted on Facebook, tagging the Hindu Council of Kenya’s page. A Kamal K Gupta...
In the first part of “The girl they didn’t love”, we reported on the long-term abuse of a 6-year-old girl from the Oshwal Community who we called Alika* in order to...
A criminal case currently before the Chief Magistrate’s Court is drawing back the curtain on two years of an alleged cover-up of serious abuse from within a community...