Journal

Nyaluo Stories

Editorial from the villages and the shoreline: farmer documentaries, recipes, culture, traditional cooking, fishing life and what sustainability actually costs.

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Field notes · 6 min

Why our cassava tastes different

Soil, variety and the four days most cassava spends in transit. A short argument for digging to order.

Portrait · 9 min

Meet Mama Achieng

Thirty-four seasons above Nyakach, two calendars, and the one she actually trusts.

Place · 12 min

Life around Lake Victoria

Before the wind rises, the canoes come in. A morning on the shore at Dunga Beach.

Kitchen · 7 min

How to cook traditional vegetables

Mto, susa, akeyo, dek — what they are, how to treat them, and why you should not boil them to death.

Fishing life · 10 min

The omena night shift

Lamps, dark moons and six men who sleep in the afternoon. A night out with the Mbita crews.

Sustainability · 8 min

What a fair price actually looks like

We publish what the farmer is paid. Here is the arithmetic behind a KSh 320 bag of maize.

Culture · 6 min

The gourd and the charcoal

How mursik is made, why the wood matters, and what happens when you use the wrong tree.

Sustainability · 5 min

Half the comb

Grace takes half and leaves the rest. A quiet lesson in beekeeping that keeps hives alive.