Location:
United States
Genres:
Storytelling Podcasts
Description:
nairobi issues maybe even Kenya issues informal
Language:
English
Website:
https://anchor.fm/nairobi-mind
Episodes
bonus - 420 ten year challenge
11/25/2024
love
Duration:00:04:20
ep 24: I am here
5/5/2024
beginning my 5th decade around the sun, and I am grateful, may the wind always beneath our wings
Duration:00:02:17
ep 23: i wish my parents loved me
5/5/2024
i think they really love me, for real but sometimes, it feels like this.. thank you mom and dad
Duration:00:02:00
ep 22: about rich dad
9/19/2023
living with rich dad has been learning about race and racism, something that rarely bothers me when I am with poor dad
Duration:00:02:49
ep 21: Passe-port aka I wish our father loved us
6/14/2023
Will I be stuck here foré? Will daddy stop beating us?
Duration:00:04:51
ep 20: into the woods
3/28/2023
quitting, again gnawing feels, this isn't it have to listen to the journey
Duration:00:02:42
ep 19: fem danger (t-o-w longbeard)
3/15/2023
women are carrying a beautiful, but dangerous femininity it puts you in trouble even when you're just trying to go about your day.. In honour of International Women's Day 2023
Duration:00:04:29
ep 18: ghost 👻
2/9/2023
I went away, now I'm back. I still don't know a lot.
Duration:00:02:04
ep 17: you don't have to be nice
11/9/2022
notes about "niceness" to my younger self. mentions of street harassment and nairoberry, the beautiful cruel city.
Duration:00:10:16
episode 16: grinding, but so empty
12/2/2021
In the end, it's just the sheer emptiness that is defeating. I want my time back, all of it..
Duration:00:03:36
episode 15: me, I fear Kenyan men 1
11/23/2021
cases of femicide put the unholy fear in my heart. stay safe.
Duration:00:03:41
episode 14: If Immigrants Told No Lies..
11/22/2021
what a thought!
Duration:00:04:33
episode 13: (Kiswahili) Learning to be broke
11/19/2021
Brokeness 101, lesson muhimu kaNairo. You might need to have a freezer, but then you'd no longer be broke, haha.. (:
Duration:00:02:49
episode 12: (Kiswahili) Kenyans are so warm
11/19/2021
"Kenyans are so friendly!!" I have heard this a lot and living in Kenya I must admit I didn't really understand what I was being told. In other words, kutembea majuu ndio kujua wakenya tunakuaga warm, maisha majuu ni coooold!!
Duration:00:05:25
episode 11: the burden of explanation
11/19/2021
It is heavy. And sometimes insurmountable. I am learning..
Duration:00:06:53
episode 10: the burden of privilege
9/16/2021
Title really speaks for itself..
Duration:00:02:59
episode 09: decolonising the Nairobi mind
8/21/2021
Welcome to season 2. This episode is about decolonisation as a personal experience.
Duration:00:04:20
ep. 08: deserted spaces
2/2/2021
you're walking down a crowded street, you make a turn and all of a sudden, there is no one in sight. you're all alone walking this street. what goes through your mind?
Duration:00:03:59
ep. 07: african time
2/2/2021
you are an african timer, you never keep time, you're just an african timer, unapenda kuchelewa..
the recording in the beginning is from a Radiolab podcast about the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) - aka The Mau Mau, a pro-independence force active during the state of emergency in the 1950s in colonial Kenya. all material belongs to Radiolab, i own none of that. in case you'd like to hear the episode, which is a gem, here's the linko: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/mau-mau
Duration:00:04:55
ep. 06: speaking English
1/31/2021
aka International Appeal, is it weird for an African to speak so much English?
Duration:00:03:11