AwaaZ Magazine - Volume 15, Issue 1

Cover Story: Feminism

The Constitutional Erosion of the 2/3rds Gender Principle and the Rule of Law

I remember well the pomp and celebration that accompanied the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. The 27th of August 2010 marked a day that signified the turning of a new page, a new page to begin to rewrite...

Just Not Sorry

I recently downloaded a browser extension called Just not sorry. It underlines in red, like a spell checker, words and phrases in my emails that are self-demeaning or qualifying. ‘I’m just writing to say…’ ‘I’m sorry…’ ‘I think…’ ‘I’m no...

Me too: speaking out for the first time in Gaza

Omnia, 20, was born and raised in United Arab Emirates and moved to Gaza on 2013. She is a fourth-year student at the Islamic University of Gaza, where she is majoring in English literature. She uses writing to express her...

Kenya Association of Manufactures (KAM)

1. Women are multidimensional and dynamic, and in this sense, who is P...

Zarika’s journey: Fists of hope

THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY NATION ON FRIDAY OCTOBER...

Wild Woman Dance

Hold me close ancient guardians Woman breathe Woman relax Woman love A...

Louise Bryant in 1919

By Jan Nielsen John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World is the bes...

Drawing Strength from our Ancestors

Bertha Cáceres was only 25 years old when her mother, Berta, a world-r...

Was It Always So …?

The notion of women as secondary beings with clearly defined roles as ...

Engaging Norms that Undermine Gender and Human Rights in Kenya

In the year 2000, during a protest by Muslim women against the equalit...

It Is Still Not Too Late. Speak Up!

By Wanjeri #AmKenyan Today I had an official meeting with a known sex...

The campaign to end the silence

How best do you speak about the same thing over and over again? What m...

Spotlight on Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LBTQ) Women

Kenya’s women’s rights movement has been one of the most vibrant, well...

Learning To Be A Woman

I was thirteen years old when I learned shoulders are threatening body...

Let A Thousand Flowers Blossom

As a response to the wind of change that was blowing in the 80’s hera...

The Un-Women

Women deemed "not real women" in many times and places: ...

The Need to Belong, When Faith Turn to Harm

I have a hairy chin. Being a woman, this is not something I am suppose...

#52 - Bigger Than a Hashtag

Not too long ago, online campaigns got a bad rap for being, well, onli...

Regular Columns

Feminine or Feminist?

It is purely incidental that the person who inspired this article happened to have been a South Asian woman, encountered via a facebook post, as manifestations of the phenomenon...

Men`s mea culpa!

Men Behaving Badly was a highly successful tv sit-com that dominated the light entertainment scene in Britain all through the 1990s. It was even exported to the US and remade...

Special Feature

Editorial cartoons

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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.

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