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46 articles, sorted into ten fields. Each one written from the record, not generated from a feed.

Travelling through history

5 articles · 4 this month

Kangubiri Girls High still holds a Mau Mau detention camp

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 12 min

A walk through Nyeri that is not a city guide

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

The next trip needs a reason

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Landscapes

4 articles · 3 this month

Mau Mau caves, from the mouth inward

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Forest that hid a war

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Kiawara, still without a fitting memorial

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Field record

4 articles · 2 this month

Write the site before you explain it

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Staying near the place

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

A map is a colonial object too

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Indigenous life

4 articles · 3 this month

Councils, clans, and law before the courtroom

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Age, initiation, and who taught the young

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Language as an archive

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Land and labour

5 articles · 3 this month

The White Highlands, farm by farm

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Reserves were not a homeland policy

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Hut tax, poll tax

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Fields and foodways

4 articles · 3 this month

Crops that were already in the field

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

What the reserve had left to eat

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

The kitchen that kept the older knowledge

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Documents and law

6 articles · 3 this month

The 1948 Kenya Constitution, held up to the light

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 3 min

Inside the Nyeri colonial court

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Crown land, in plain language

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Unlearn and relearn

5 articles · 3 this month

The history the classroom skipped

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Unlearn the empty land

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

Relearn the name Nyeri

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Healing traditions

4 articles · 2 this month

Medicine before the mission hospital

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

A ritual is not a superstition note

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

The hospital as a border

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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Evidence

5 articles · 3 this month

What is written down outlives the person who knew it

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 10 min

Four kinds of claim

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

How to stand in a mass grave and not invent

Mugo Wa Njoroge · 2 min

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