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Articles of the author Juliet Torome
Africa's stolen history
NAIROBI – The news that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts that one of its researchers took from Peru in 1911 reminded me of a party that I attended recently — one that I had to leave prematurely. An African friend had (...)

15 - 01 - 2012
The forgotten half of the African sky
NAIROBI: In Kenya, my home country, there is a popular saying that when two elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers. Nowhere is that more evident than in the numerous conflicts Africa has seen in the past 50 years. In the Democratic Republic (...)

17 - 03 - 2011
The forgotten half of the African sky
NAIROBI: In Kenya, my home country, there is a popular saying that when two elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers. Nowhere is that more evident than in the numerous conflicts Africa has seen in the past 50 years. In the Democratic Republic (...)

16 - 03 - 2011
Constitutional Realism in Kenya
NAIROBI: At long last, Kenya is getting a new constitution, something that had eluded our country for decades, even though almost everyone knew that one was needed. That the referendum on the new constitution was voted upon so peacefully — only a (...)

10 - 08 - 2010
The World Cup and African women
NAIROBI: When I was born, 25 years ago, it would have been rare — even taboo — to find African women discussing soccer. But that is what my girlfriends and I now do. I grew up in Kenya, where my compatriots follow the English Premier League (...)

05 - 07 - 2010
Africa's Urban Farmers
NAIROBI: When I met Eunice Wangari at a Nairobi coffee shop recently, I was surprised to hear her on her mobile phone, insistently asking her mother about the progress of a corn field in her home village, hours away from the big city. A nurse, (...)

28 - 10 - 2009
The secret world of female circumcision
NAIROBI: As a child in rural Kenya, I was a secret admirer of female genital mutilation. I was swayed by talk of friends and elders about how once a girl undergoes "the cut, she gains respect and grown men consider her suitable for marriage. Perhaps (...)

28 - 10 - 2008
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