In June earlier this year, in Nyeri County, Kenya, there were two separate incidents where wives attempted to chop off their husbands’ penises. In the first incident, Anne Njeri attacked Daniel King'ori, her husband of seven years, after she found condoms in his pockets when he returned home from a late-night drinking session.
Read MorePublic housing - utopia of the past or necessity of the future?
Amidst a housing crisis that threatens to price many lower income earners out of London, and that has brought levels of homelessness to new records, the ideal of home ownership continues to underpin British housing policy.
Read MoreThe Double-Edged Sword of Cultural Tourism
During my summer field research, I traveled to the Maasai Mara, the Kenyan half of the incredible Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, and the home of the Maasai ethnic group. For many of us, this probably evokes a sense of timelessness, and a society untouched by the ‘evils of modernity’. It is also one that many National Geographic documentaries and glossy tourist brochures continue to perpetuate. However, it is but a small sliver of the reality there, like looking at one pixel of an entire photograph; beautiful, perhaps, but incomplete.
Read MoreOn losing Kirsty
On Thursday 4th September 2015, Kirsty Bailey - founding member of this blog, and dear friend to so many of those associated with it – died. Her passing was peaceful and followed a long and difficult battle with cancer – a battle she wrote eloquently and insightfully about.
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