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Carey Baraka

Carey Baraka is a writer from Kisumu, Kenya, now living in Nairobi

November 2025

  • People using a boat to evacuate their village, near Lake Victoria, after flooding in May 2020. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater – podcast

    This week, from 2022: Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people

    By Carey Baraka. Read by Reice Weathers
    Podcast27:35

June 2025

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California. Photograph: Michael Tyrone Delaney/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature – podcast

    This week, from 2023: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

    Written and read by Carey Baraka
    Podcast59:05

December 2024

  • Beneath the Baobabs, a festival in Kilifi, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024. Photograph: Drew Kamau

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2024: Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite – podcast

    From June: Every year, hundreds of Kenyans head off to study at elite universities in the US and UK. On graduating, many find themselves in a strange position: unable to fit in abroad, but no longer feeling like they belong back home. By Carey Baraka
    Podcast34:56

June 2024

  • Beneath the Baobabs, a festival in Kilifi, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024. Photograph: Drew Kamau

    The Audio Long Read
    Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite – podcast

    Every year, hundreds of Kenyans head off to study at elite universities in the US and UK. On graduating, many find themselves in a strange position: unable to fit in abroad, but no longer feeling like they belong back home. By Carey Baraka
    Podcast33:33

May 2024

  • A crowd watching a performance at the Beneath the Baobabs festival in Kifili, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024.

    The long read
    Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite

    The long read: Every year, hundreds of Kenyans head off to study at elite universities in the US and UK. On graduating, many find themselves in a strange position: unable to fit in abroad, but no longer feeling like they belong back home

July 2023

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California. Photograph: Michael Tyrone Delaney/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature – podcast

    The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing
    Podcast56:10

June 2023

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California November 2022.

    The long read
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

    The long read: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

March 2022

  • Photo by Daniel Irungu. A crocodile (bottom) swims just next to a group of women preparing their fish before going to sell them outside their homes at the shore of Kampi ya Samaki, after the place was flooded causing crocodiles and hippos to come close to homes due to unprecedented rise of water levels in Lake Baringo

    The Audio Long Read
    A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater – podcast

    Podcast25:33
  • People using a boat to evacuate their village, near Lake Victoria, after flooding in May 2020.

    The long read
    A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater

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