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Nairobi

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus on Her Creative Philosophy, Finding Inspiration in the Bay, and the Wisdom of Steve Jobs

    By CHLOE ROTH In 2009, tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus was lured from Montreal to Oakland by "Love and fear of illegal immigrant status in Canada." Lucky for us. "I started sadly playing a ukulele that my mom had given me," Garbus says. "Though it crossed my mind that being a doctor was probab ... More >>

  • Music

    May 6, 2009

    Extra Golden

    By CHLOE ROTH In 2009, tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus was lured from Montreal to Oakland by "Love and fear of illegal immigrant status in Canada." Lucky for us. "I started sadly playing a ukulele that my mom had given me," Garbus says. "Though it crossed my mind that being a doctor was probab ... More >>

  • Music

    June 18, 2008

    Golden Ticket

    By CHLOE ROTH In 2009, tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus was lured from Montreal to Oakland by "Love and fear of illegal immigrant status in Canada." Lucky for us. "I started sadly playing a ukulele that my mom had given me," Garbus says. "Though it crossed my mind that being a doctor was probab ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2004

    Enslaved in Palo Alto

    A domestic worker from Kenya has accused her employer -- a prominent African journalist -- of human trafficking

  • Film

    April 2, 2003

    Nowhere Ma'am

    A focus on the wrong woman hinders the otherwise beautiful Nowhere in Africa

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