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Jakki Kerubo

Jakki Kerubo is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York

Non-Americans often ask me what it has been like to live through President Donald Trump’s administration after the heady years of Obama. The answer, for me, is complicated.

3 NOV 2020

Finding my faith in Trump’s America

From the heady days of Obama’s inauguration to the everyday fears of living while black, Jakki Kerubo had a front-row seat to one of the most turbulent periods in US history

Jakki Kerubo

4 min read

For Henrietta Moraa Nyaigoti (left), who learned how to farm from her mother (right), farming became a family Sunday ritual. They now run a commercial venture selling vegetables to Kenyan expats, such as these women from from Boston.

AFRICAN FARMERS

22 AUG 2020

They came for the American Dream, but the land was still beckoning

Kenyan farmers have carved their own niche in America’s agricultural landscape, providing speciality crops for the US market

Jakki Kerubo

7 min read

Protesters gather during a “Black Lives Matter” protest near Barclays Center on May 29, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, in outrage after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died while being arrested by a police officer in Minneapolis who pinned him to the ground with his knee. – Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

BARCLAYS CENTRE

8 JUN 2020

Pandemic and protest: The view from New York City

The police brutality protests through the eyes of an African in Brooklyn, New York

Jakki Kerubo

9 min read