We know it can be thankless, but have you ever felt the high of turning a writer’s first draft into a piece of magic, if not their best work? That’s what we’d like you to feel, forever. A fulfillment borne out of a generosity of spirit, to give of yourself for something bigger.

Sometimes what we all need isn’t a second chance but a proper chance. Calling all storytellers who’ve given it a solid shot before but now want to soar. Those who no longer wish to roll solo but want to be part of a bigger mission. Come, let’s up the ante, writing & reporting.

This is for the dreamers who’d like to become big time doers. Those who’ve known they can do it but haven’t been sure whether they’d find an opening, a landing. Those who seek to fully apply themselves & see what that looks like, feels like. Those who’ve hoped for an opening. 🔗

How does a newsroom disrupt itself? By going back to basics. At Debunk, much as we’ve always done our journalism differently, we feel it isn’t & it hasn’t been enough both for ourselves & our audiences. So we start again. That’s why we’d like those who move like us to join us.

Where does one stand in order to properly eulogise @RasnaWarah ? A rare, courageous, formidable human - imperfections & all - Rasna Warah was unstoppable, till death, at least physically. Impacting generations with her writing, @IsaacOtidiAmuke recounts what she meant to Debunk.

Happy 100th birthday to James Baldwin. In 1961, at the age of 37, broke and emotionally spent, he arrived in Istanbul, where he lived on and off for the next ten years. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi charts this transformative period in the writer's life: https://t.co/UbH1efxhpe

Langston Hughes died on this day in 1967. Read Hilton Als on the search for the enigmatic poet’s “real” story: https://t.co/QPOialnaLB

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We know it will all soon start sounding like mere statistics - the number of lives lost, the countless flooded/submerged households, the multiple roads rendered impassible. But let's not surrender to fate. Real lives are at stake, as today's photo essay #MathareChronicles shows.

‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed

‼️TW: This story contains themes of abuse and other bodily harm. Reader discretion is advised. In 2021, @chepkemoi_D landed in Saudi Arabia with hopes to better her life and her family's. Shortly afterwards, things took a dark turn, the kind she’d only watched in documentaries

A country can break your heart. In 2019 I wrote the story of how Mama Victor lost her son(s) to police bullets in Mathare during post election protests in 2017. Now she’s dead, alongside two family members, their house swept by the raging floods in Mathare

“My coach had placed a skateboard on the ground beside my feet and asked me to step on it. Reluctant to try and fail, I shook my head dissenting, claiming not to know how to do it. He was adamant. ‘‘Step on it,’’ he’d said. As soon as I set my foot and weight on the board, a

‼️TW: This story contains themes of suicide or bodily harm. Reader discretion is advised. By 25, life had really knocked Hadassah Saya down, thanks to a string of tough breaks. And just when she was about to make a final, fatal choice, she remembered her old love for skating—a

When you see your reader friend buy more books than they can read in one lifetime, please do not judge them because reading books and collecting them are totally different hobbies. @CliftonGachagua got into both, ending up with three libraries: one he put together himself,

Ever since @Jarangu first landed in Kampala back in the '80s, the city scared him, and it continued to do so for a long time. He tried to put it into words, but just couldn’t. So, he ended up roaming every street he could find. It took a while, decades actually, but once he got

What’s it like growing up with two fathers, each so different yet somehow so similar, both so present and so influential in shaping who you become? @ashamwilu has written about her Baba and her Dad in #TheDressMyFatherBoughtMe. Which father, you ask? 😅😅 You’ll have to read her

Ever had something that felt truly holy and divine? For @wanjamich, that something was water—pools, to be exact. This journey started way back in the baby pool in primary school and has come full circle decades later in adulthood, life unfolding all the while. So today, we're

If you ask anyone from any corner of Kenya who grew up in government quarters about their experience, however different the answers may be, there will always be striking similarities. Today we’re #ThinkingBackToGovernmentQuarters with @Dalle22 Watch the full conversation: