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What happens to a woman’s body during perimenopause

An OB-GYN walks through the hormonal shift most women meet without a map.

Dr. Dokii Muchiri3 Sept 2026

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Ten groups, sixty seconds, one opinion to defend

Before the lecture begins, the floor has to make its case — against the clock.

Nyirobi Video1 Sept 2026

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How money buys an election in Kenya

How much should a politician be allowed to spend to win? We asked the street.

Nyirobi Video27 Aug 2026

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Nairobi is an urban planning nightmare

A city growing faster than the plans meant to hold it — transport, housing, land.

Nyirobi Video24 Aug 2026

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Becoming Raila Amolo Odinga

How Kenya’s most consequential opposition figure was actually made.

Nyirobi Video17 Aug 2026

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Nature’s smallest predators could save modern medicine

Viruses, and the case for the things we have spent a century trying to kill.

Nyirobi Video14 Aug 2026

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Can Kenyans explain the two-thirds gender rule?

A constitutional promise everyone cites and few can state. We went to find out.

Nyirobi Video3 Aug 2026

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The secret world of bees

Species, honey, and why the smallest workers in the economy matter most.

Nyirobi Video31 Jul 2026

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A history of Kenyan football, and the blueprint to save it

From the early clubs to the moments that shaped the game — and what would fix it.

Nyirobi Video22 Jul 2026

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Kenyan music started long before 2000

From the traditional forms of the 1940s to the sound the country now exports.

Nyirobi Video11 Jul 2026

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Is weed the lesser evil?

One answer from the floor of the legalisation debate.

Nyirobi Video8 Jul 2026

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The Otherside · Society

Pro-legalisation against anti-legalisation

Two rooms, one question about marijuana, and no agreement at the end of it.

Nyirobi Video6 Jul 2026

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The trap inside Kenya’s education system

Young Kenyans were told one thing about school. This is what it delivered.

Nyirobi Video1 Jul 2026

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KRA officials break down tax, PIN and returns

The revenue authority takes questions on everything Kenyans are meant to know.

Nyirobi Video26 Jun 2026

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What Kenyans actually understand about devolution

Everyone uses the word. We went out to see who could explain it.

Nyirobi Video20 Jun 2026

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How a goat became a pip: the real forex explained

Before you can ask whether forex is a scam, you have to know where it came from.

Nyirobi Video5 Jun 2026

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Conservancies are a red flag

Africa was told conservation means protection. Sniff that story carefully.

Nyirobi Video29 May 2026

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Is abortion a form of control over women?

One answer from the floor of the pro-life, pro-choice debate.

Nyirobi Video28 May 2026

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Men and contraception

A short exchange on whose body carries the burden.

Nyirobi Video27 May 2026

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The Otherside · Philosophy

Is abortion a legal question or a health one?

One answer from the floor of the pro-life, pro-choice debate.

Nyirobi Video26 May 2026

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Pro-life against pro-choice

Rights, autonomy and ethics, argued in a room where both sides showed up.

Nyirobi Video24 May 2026

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What cannabis actually does to you

A Kenyan doctor separates what is known from what everyone is sure of.

Nyirobi Video20 May 2026

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African problems need African solutions

A minute on the phrase everyone repeats and few interrogate.

Nyirobi Video12 May 2026

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Same-sex marriage in Kenya

Can you be pro-marriage and anti-LGBTQ? One answer from the floor.

Nyirobi Video10 May 2026

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Is marriage still relevant for modern women?

Marriage used to be survival. The room argues about what it is now.

Nyirobi Video7 May 2026

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Can nuclear power end Kenya’s electricity problem?

The most argued-over power source on earth, taken seriously for half an hour.

Nyirobi Video28 Apr 2026

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Should billionaires exist in Kenya?

A live debate that starts on wealth taxes and does not stay polite.

Nyirobi Video23 Apr 2026

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The Otherside · Society

State capitalism against free markets

Which system actually serves Kenya? A long argument, held in full.

Nyirobi Video21 Apr 2026

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Kenyan feminism, explained

What the word means here, now — from the people using it.

Nyirobi Video14 Apr 2026

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Yap Lectures · Mind

Is marriage love, or escaping yourself?

“You get married because you hate yourself.” The room takes that apart.

Nyirobi Video13 Apr 2026

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Marriage is slavery for women

One answer from the floor of the marriage debate.

Nyirobi Video8 Apr 2026

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Is marriage the oldest form of slavery?

A heated debate on whether the institution is worth keeping.

Nyirobi Video7 Apr 2026

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The Otherside · Society

Marriage against anti-marriage

Is marriage still worth it, or are more people walking away? Both cases, at length.

Nyirobi Video3 Apr 2026

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How your vote is counted, and where it goes wrong

The Kenyan tally, step by step — including the steps that fail.

Nyirobi Video28 Mar 2026

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Kwa Streets · Culture

The taste of ugali across Africa

One staple, a continent of opinions about who does it best.

Nyirobi Video24 Mar 2026

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Why Singapore works: a brief history

The comparison Kenyan politics keeps reaching for, examined properly.

Nyirobi Video21 Mar 2026

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Kenya is a poor country

The 46th poorest country in the world, with one of the highest budgets.

Kwame Owino18 Mar 2026

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Tracking Kenya’s growing debt

How the country reached trillions, who holds the paper, and what it costs.

Kwame Owino17 Mar 2026

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Google’s hacking secrets: finding anything

A minute of open-source intelligence from the cybersecurity masterclass.

Dr. Bright Gameli9 Mar 2026

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The danger of charging your phone anywhere

Why a public port is never only a public port.

Dr. Bright Gameli5 Mar 2026

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Clips · Culture

Gen Z against millennials: who reigns supreme?

A minute of the argument that will not end.

Nyirobi Video4 Mar 2026

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Carbon credit markets, and who is really earning

How carbon credits work in the Kenyan context — and where the money lands.

Eileen Wakesho3 Mar 2026

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AI hacking: your voice and face, replicated

Cloned in a minute, used for the rest of your life.

Dr. Bright Gameli2 Mar 2026

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Kwa Streets · Culture

Unpacking the Gen Z and millennial beef

We took the question to Mombasa. The city had opinions.

Nyirobi Video27 Feb 2026

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A masterclass in staying safe online

An ethical hacker shows exactly how exposed the average person is.

Dr. Bright Gameli23 Feb 2026

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Yap Lectures · History

What made Raila Agwambo?

A tribute session where the floor spoke, one memory at a time.

Nyirobi Video6 Feb 2026

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Raila Odinga, Somali and Suba representation

A minute on who he made room for.

Nyirobi Video4 Feb 2026

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ODM’s pact with the coast

A minute on the bargain behind a party’s map.

Nyirobi Video30 Jan 2026

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Do young Kenyans still believe in marriage?

We went to Nakuru and asked. The answers were not one thing.

Nyirobi Video28 Jan 2026

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Was ODM Raila’s greatest political creation?

A minute on the party that outlasted every coalition around it.

Nyirobi Video27 Jan 2026

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Yap Lectures · History

Is ODM the best thing that happened to this country?

The floor answers, at a tribute to the late Raila Amolo Odinga.

Nyirobi Video23 Jan 2026

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The repugnancy test: taking morality back from empire

A minute on the clause that let colonial courts overrule custom.

Mutheu Mutuku23 Jan 2026

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Prohibition’s paradox

Africa’s alcohol ban, and the slave trade that profited from it.

Njahira20 Jan 2026

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What alcohol changed, besides habits

A minute from the lecture on decolonising what we drink.

Njahira13 Jan 2026

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Kisumu on state capitalism and free markets

We took the debate to Kisumu. The takes were sharper than the panel’s.

Nyirobi Video13 Jan 2026

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What it takes to run a sub-two-hour marathon

A sports doctor on the physiology behind a city that runs by default.

Dr. Oliver12 Jan 2026

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Why learn Latin?

A minute on the gate the legal system keeps in a dead language.

Mutheu Mutuku9 Jan 2026

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Alcohol and slavery: a tool of control

A minute from the lecture on decolonising what we drink.

Njahira6 Jan 2026

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Law schools and the erasure of African women judges

A minute on whose judgments make it into the syllabus.

Mutheu Mutuku1 Jan 2026

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Alcohol’s dark history

Controlling indigenous people, one licence at a time.

Njahira30 Dec 2025

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How homosexuality was criminalised

A minute on a moral legacy that arrived by ship.

Mutheu Mutuku29 Dec 2025

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The truth about the new cybercrime bill

Katiba Institute on the bills passed in October, and what they cost your privacy.

Kelvin Walumbe29 Dec 2025

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Africa’s alcohol ban, and who profited

A minute from the lecture on decolonising what we drink.

Njahira28 Dec 2025

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African law is colonialism in a suit

A legal system built on colonial roots to divide rather than to give justice.

Mutheu Mutuku24 Dec 2025

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Colonisation against coloniality

A minute on the difference between the event and what it left behind.

Nyirobi Video23 Dec 2025

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The colonial legacy in what Kenya drinks

A minute from the lecture on decolonising alcohol.

Njahira23 Dec 2025

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Could your grandmother understand legal jargon?

A minute on a system that speaks a language its subjects do not.

Mutheu Mutuku22 Dec 2025

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Lawyers and laymen: the inequality in the field

A minute on who the law is actually written for.

Mutheu Mutuku22 Dec 2025

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How the British used alcohol to control Kenya

The colonial history of what we drink, and the drinking culture it left.

Njahira17 Nov 2025

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Drunken Lectures · Philosophy

What really happens to your vote at Bomas

The electoral process end to end — its substance, and its loopholes.

Brian Sengeli3 Nov 2025

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Is consent an illusion?

A data protection lawyer on the history of consent and what Kenyan law makes of it.

Mutua Mutuku5 Oct 2025

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The stealing art of Kenyan music

An audio engineer on sampling, credit, and the Kenyan record it built.

Megamuia10 Sept 2025

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Land alienation in Kenya

Who owned where, when it changed hands, and how — before and after independence.

Kimemia Macharia24 Aug 2025

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Everything you should know about Kenyan tea

The country’s biggest export, its colonial roots, and how it is actually made.

Wangu wa Majani17 Aug 2025

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The state of emergency never ended

Same patterns, different decade.

Nyirobi Video22 Jul 2025

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Why don’t we learn this in history class?

A minute from the lecture on the colonial roots of police brutality.

Chao Tayiana21 Jul 2025

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He who forgets his history is bound to repeat it

A minute on the colonial roots of policing in Kenya.

Chao Tayiana20 Jul 2025

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The colonial roots of police brutality

A historian traces a system of oppressors back to the way it was designed.

Chao Tayiana14 Jul 2025

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Why round shapes appear in nature

Hexagons, circles, and the geometry the universe keeps choosing over ours.

Nyirobi Video1 Jul 2025

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Have you filed your returns?

A minute from the Finance Bill lecture, and a deadline that does not move.

Nyirobi Video25 Jun 2025

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What Kenyans need to know about the Finance Bill

The lecture went to parliament and — unlike the members — read the bill.

Julians Amboko17 Jun 2025

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Why KRA reaching your trade secrets should worry you

A minute from the Finance Bill lecture.

Julians Amboko15 Jun 2025

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