Society & Culture

A Palace For The People

Welcome to A Palace for The People, a podcast unearthing pieces of Nairobi’s history that support and feed the restoration process of the McMillan Memorial Library and its branches in Makada...

Episodes

7 episodes

Strike!

In the season finale of A Palace For The People, we go back to Kenya’s independence era to uncover the roots of the country’s labor movement...

00:15:27Aug 21, 2025

Live from NBO Litfest, feat. Keith Ang'ana

In this special live episode of A Palace for the People, Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka sit down with writer, editor, and cultural orga...

00:28:29Aug 7, 2025

Teargas and Testimony: The Story of Timothy Njoya

Reverend Timothy Njoya risked everything to stand up to authoritarianism in Kenya—armed only with his Bible and his voice. In this episode,...

00:22:46Jul 24, 2025

We Wore Rage

In 2014, a viral video of a woman being stripped in public sparked national outrage and led to the My Dress My Choice protest in Nairobi. Th...

00:18:51Jul 17, 2025

Seeds of Resistance

In this episode of A Palace for The People, smallholder farmers in Kenya push back against a law that criminalizes saving and sharing seeds....

00:17:25Jul 10, 2025

Protest and Punishment

Kenya’s boarding schools have long been sites of silence and discipline—but what happens when students push back? In this season opener of A...

00:23:52Jun 26, 2025

S2E8 | Live from NBO Litfest, feat. Petina Gappah

Live from the NBO Litfest, Shiro and Wachuka speak with author Petina Gappah about her work and the importance of history and archive in lit...

00:43:14Dec 18, 2023