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#FridayFresh from Sauti Sol to Republi.ke

Been a while since we got fresh but fear not here’s the list of what’s great about this week, music for your ears, what to get some cool threads and how to cook Ugali, courtesy of Lupita Nyon’go

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Why every woman should watch Style Like U’s What’s Underneath

I first stumbled upon Style Like U a couple of years back. At the time, they were doing closets and interviewing all these cool women, one of whom was Kenyan, maybe I was googling the…

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Why I am not buying into this #NoMakeup thing

Grammy award winner Alicia Keys recently discovered she feels free and liberated without makeup, so much so that she is starting a hashtag movement to encourage women to go makeup free. But, I wasn’t sold.…

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#FridayFresh: From Hadithi to that thirst quenching River Café Sangria

When Sandra Chege asked me to write a letter to my younger self, I was happy to oblige. Since then, the letters have just kept on coming and the response has been really positive. ‘Hadithi -Letters…

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For Malick Sidibé (1936- 2016)

When you look at Malian photographer Malick Sidibe’s photos, you get transported to a simpler time. For many of us, whose parents or grandparents came of age in the post independence era, they are reminiscent of the black…

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