Soila Kenya

Soila is a womanist award-winning Kenyan data journalist and communications specialist. She writes about pop culture from an African perspective at Cold Take Geeks, which she co-founded, and fangirls about African speculative fiction on X & Bluesky.

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Features

The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue

For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.