Let’s not mince words the African story has been hijacked, distorted, and diluted for far too long. And when it comes to the African woman's story especially those of female historians, thinkers, and changemakers it was not just erased. It was silenced. On purpose.
From the coastlines of Mombasa to the hills of Kisii, African women were once the custodians of oral history. They were griots, midwives of memory, fierce record-keepers in a continent where stories were not just entertainment they were survival.
But colonialism did not
come just with guns and bibles. It came with pens. And in those
European-written histories, African women were often written out, reduced to
background noise in the grand narrative of “exploration” and “civilization.”
Where was Mekatilili wa Menza in the textbooks? Why didn’t we grow up hearing about Queen Nzinga unless we went digging in dusty archives or stumbled into a feminist Twitter thread?
How many of us knew that there were women who documented history, not just lived it?The erasure wasn’t accidental it was strategic.
When you silence the storytellers, you control the story. And when you control the story, you control the future.But now, the tables are turning. Enter Kabrazen the raw, unapologetic podcast by the LAM Sisterhood that’s flipping the script.
This is not your average polished, Western-style storytelling podcast with awkward Swahili pronunciations and anthropological detachment. Kabrazen is the mic-drop. It’s Kenyan to the core.
It’s bold, cheeky, layered with nuance, and it refuses to play nice with the colonial narrative. Hosted by the brilliant minds of the LAM Sisterhood a fierce collective of storytellers, artists, and unapologetic disruptors Kabrazen revives the voices of African women, especially those the world tried to forget.
This is why it matters. We are living in an age of noise algorithms flooding our timelines with Western perspectives, NGO pity narratives, and fake empowerment campaigns with no roots in the soil. Kabrazen cuts through all that. It brings Kenyan stories back home narrated by Kenyan women, for Kenyan ears and beyond.
It’s not just about representation. It’s about reclamation. Every episode is an act of resistance against historical erasure. It’s a platform where the voices of female historians past, present, and future are no longer an afterthought. They’re front and centre, loud and proud.
And it’s timely. Gen Z Kenyans are hungry for authenticity. We’re digging through our grandmothers’ photo albums. We’re asking questions. We want to know our history not the whitewashed, male-filtered, textbook version. Podcasts like Kabrazen are doing the work that institutions failed to do. They’re making history personal, political, and powerful again.
So yes, Kabrazen is essential. Not just as a podcast. But as a cultural correction. A sonic revolution. A reclamation of narrative power.
Because when African women tell their stories no one can silence them again.Sema ukweli. Rekebisha historia. Skiza Kabrazen.
