Chonjo Magazine

15/04/2015

Totally outrageous...8 artists represent Kenya in the Venice Biennale and 6 of them are Chinese!!!

Using foreigners in the east African country’s delegation to world’s biggest art event is a ‘monumental embarrassment’, say critics. Contemporary& reports

09/03/2015

We have almost 1000 signatures but we need lots more. Please send this petition to your friends and families and post wherever you can.
Save Lamu also has a hardcopy petition going on in Kiswahili. Anyone can pass by our office and sign it. Better yet take copies and help us get signatures.

Coal fired plants emit toxins that are unhealthy for communities and the environment. We are concerned that our waters will be contaminated, our mangrove forests decimated and the marine life in the area negatively affected. This is unnecessary given the fact that alternatives exist. Let's look for…

23/02/2015

Coal fired plants emit toxins that are unhealthy for communities and the environment. We are concerned that our waters will be contaminated, our mangrove forests decimated and the marine life in the area negatively affected. This is unnecessary given the fact that alternatives exist. Let's look for…

21/02/2015

Sayyid Abdallah from Lamu wrote Swahili poems in Arabic script over 300 years ago. He is one of the earliest known pioneers of classical Swahili poetry. His most renowned work is "Al-Inkishafi", sometimes translated as “The Soul’s Awakening.” -

300 years before Ngugi wa Thiongo or Binyavanga Wainaina became monuments of East African literature, men like Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir were writing very beautiful things in Swahili.

06/02/2015

Film maker Phillipa is a regular here in Lamu. Read about her fav things and see the trailer of her film: The Donkey that Carried the Cloud on its Back

Born in Bonn in 1985, Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann is a Kenyan and German photographer and filmmaker. She is intrigued by the invisible boundary between individual and collective identities, and fascina...

04/02/2015

Lamu Painters Festival is happening now. Great to see painters in the streets...

14/11/2014

We know it is happening under the curfew watch by police. Chonjo has heard anchors and engines of boats being stolen because owners are not allowed to be out at night even to guard property. Its a disgrace.

Traders in Lamu want the government to allow them to guard their premises at night.

14/11/2014

This is positive but don't read the headlines as 10 mill wells, which I did at first. still if it brings water to areas without, which are many, that's a good thing for the families living there.

The Lamu government, in conjunction with the Tuko Pamoja Foundation from Netherlands, has launched a Sh10 million project to dig wells.

14/11/2014

Wow, this is great news!!

The Lamu government will this year partner with the Ministry of Education to put up a Sh50 million technical college in Kizingitini. The initial building that housed the Technical College of Kizingitini crumbled and had to be closed down for lack of crucial educational infrastructure 15 years ago.

14/11/2014

Worried is not strong enough word here.

The Lamu government has raised concern over the possible inevitable negative impact of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport corridor on the environment.

14/11/2014

Wouldn't it be nice if they began to look farther afield than the Takwa and Siyu. How about all the small ones that are around and might be detroyed by LAPSSET Project? There are literally hundreds of sites...

The National Museums of Kenya Lamu office will restore major heritage sites in the county.

14/11/2014

Poor Lamu.

THE Tourism department in Lamu is rebranding the sector. Tourism has been at the brink of collapse ever since a curfew was introduced four months ago.