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“Music led me to journalism. It wasn’t the other way around.”
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Communiqué 122: A dispatch from London
1. Let’s start a fire
In September 2025, Yossie Olaleye emailed me to ask if we could organise a Communiqué IRL event in London. She’d seen what we did in Nairobi the month before and thought it might be a good idea to extend th...
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Offscript with John-Allan Namu
“Why would I want to be damned for the things I publish?”
The phrase made no sense to John-Allan Namu. He was sitting in his first journalism class at the United States International University in Nairobi when veteran Kenyan journal...
Communiqué 121: Africa’s most ambitious creative economy investor finally has a thesis
1. Point of correction
Osahon Akpata began our conversation by correcting a misconception.
I had asked him to explain how CANEX Creations Inc, for which he is CEO, differs from “the larger CANEX fund.” It was a reasonable quest...
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