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Column: Ulila sa Wika

Poet and writer Karessa Ramos examines our longing for speaking and hearing our mother-tongue while…

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Column: The polychromes of beauty

Writer and poet Karessa Ramos looks back to Philippine summers confronted with questions, doubts and…

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Column: Putting courage first

The adults were engaged in their noisy chatter while I sat looking at the fallen…

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Column: Living without puto and dinuguan

Can you imagine life without Filipino food? As a Filipino expat living in Kenya, where…

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Column: Jumping off cliffs

When our columnist MZ Akil got an invitation to do a postgraduate studies at the…

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Editor’s note: Elvis in Springtime

I was in the metro the other day and I couldn’t help but overhear the…

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My encounter with an Eastern European mafia in Kenya

When you come to a country like Kenya, you expect adventure in the bush, among…

In rural Kenya most people speak their mother tongues but Swahili bridges the gap somewhat.
Adventures in Swahili

Her broken Swahili helped expat writer Agatha Verdadero escape an angry Somalian herder demanding payment…

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Missing brides and dancing beds: tales of a Kenyan wedding

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have…

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Lessons from Lola Juana

Food blogger and social media influencer Rhafael Antonio grew up without an oven, and had…