the shared practice
stories are not raw material.
The essays and photographs are mine. The work at Recentred Africa is shared - which is not a footnote.
Recentred Africa is a Nairobi studio and research practice. We make stories, yes. We also ask who framed them, who benefits from them, who disappears inside them, and whether the person at the centre would recognise what we made.
I work there as Story Lead across participatory research, ethical narrative frameworks, photography, creative and editorial direction, and public-interest reporting. I name my contribution. I do not borrow everybody else’s.
Sometimes the work reaches policy. Recentred’s reporting on Kenya’s Films and Stage Plays Bill became a memorandum submitted to Parliament. A story is not decoration for the intervention. Sometimes it is how the intervention becomes possible.

for example · najali
we asked before we announced what the answer was.
I designed the baseline attitudinal study and helped shape the unified story identity. Eight focus-group discussions in Kibera and Mathare supplied the language and structure. The result was a public conversation built from what men actually said about masculinity, violence and care - contradictions included, because people do insist on being people.
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