AwaaZ Magazine

Cover Story: Satirising Society

A Brief History of Political Cartoons

Knife-edged and salient, there is no simpler or more effective form of journalism than the editorial or political cartoon. The message – usually critical – is instantaneous, and often funny.

Cartoonist R K Laxman

For sixty years and more, men and women across India have been tickled...

Cartoonist Godfrey Mwampenmbwa (GADO)

Eunice Luchera Kamaara and Naomi Luchera Shitemi (Editors) interviewed...

Calling Wanjiku

‘The role of editorial cartoonist is to talk truth to power’ Gado Wan...

Regular Column

The snarl up experienced on the Nakuru-Gilgil stretch last Sunday was caused by various factors; tremendous increment in vehicle population as the “highway” cries out for multiple lanes. There are also dozens of new drivers trying to prove that their cheap, little white second hand Toyota imports from Japan are “deadly...

The Return of Minorityman

On July 25, 2015 Barack Obama landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as the first ever sitting US president to visit Kenya. This wasn’t his first visit. He had come three times before: the first as an impecunious youth, to see with his own eyes where his father had come from, the second as a young man starting out in life, eager to expose his fiancée to his African roots and the third a...

Europe`s migrant crisis: history`s revenge!

Europe has been in the grip of a `migrant` crisis for most of this year and it shows no sign of abating even as winter beckons. The line of movement of the people in question stretches from the south east of the continent, across the narrow stretch of water separating Greece from Turkey, to Calais on the French side of the English Channel, where large numbers of wannabe migrants and asylum seekers...

Special Feature

Memorial to the Mau Mau Victims of Tortu...

INAUGURATION CEREMONY September 12, 2015, Freedom Corner, Uhuru Park We thank you dear friends for standing with us, for fighting with us, and now for celebrating with us. This day is like no other because it’s been long in coming - they say that the arc of history is long, BUT that it bends towards JUSTICE. They al...

Remarks of Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga at Inauguration of Mau Mau Monument, September 12, 2015

I am honoured to witness this significant event that is both a closure and a beginning. The fate of the freedom fighters in Kenya has been extremely close to my heart. As Prime Minister in the grand coalition government, I was privileged to discuss the fate of Mau Mau fighters with the highest officials of the British government.

Twathiaga tukenete, tugacoka tukenete

Twathiaga tukenete, tugacoka tukenete, rugendo rwitu rwaari rwega tugithii na tugicoka!! rugendo rwitu rwaari rwega tugithii na tugicoka!!

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Corporate Support

Supported [in part] by a grant

Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa of the Open Society Foundations

Friends of Awaaz

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About Awaaz

Awaaz is a magazine published tri-annually out of Nairobi, Kenya. It aims to provide a broad platform for debate and reflection on issues of both contemporary and historical interest. What started off in 2002 as a focus on the role of the South Asian community in the historical, political and socio-economic spheres of Kenya; has now broadened to cover the larger debates on diversity, democracy, human rights and social justice. The magazine also critically examines the role of minorities both as communities in Kenya and East Africa; as well as a concept of human rights in a society be they ethnic, racial, gender based, sexual or political.

Concert & Book Reviews

Kaushiki - a phenomenon in Hindustani music

Navrang Arts have done it again! They have brought, for our entertainment and our learning, a very unique musical ensemble – unique in its home country India and even more extraordinary in Kenya. An a...