Time has distilled the corruptible from the incorruptible. This distillation has hurt. Trust has been ruined and, with time, built. The magic of time has opened us to deeper truths.

Afandi Bande is a political economy thinker exploring the intersection of governance and economic development. Her work interrogates how power, institutions, and policy choices enable—or hinder—human ...

Demas Kiprono is Deputy Executive Director – ICJ Kenya.

Departing from the spirit of the 2010 Constitution that was designed to actively bring about significant social change, lawmakers have resorted to passings laws that seek to suppress public criticism ...

The intellect, integrity, voice and humanity of Pheroze Nowrojee illustrate what perfection, dignity, commitment, and true goodness in a human being is.

The Mau Mau and Gen Z movements share similarities in the youthfulness of their membership and the decentralised nature of their operations. However, the Gen Z movement is a new, more inclusive, broad ...

Muoki Mbunga is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University. His most recent publication is Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–56.

The troubles of Kenya are the howl of ghosts, distant and recent, forgotten voices that have coalesced to a thundering.

Kabubu Mutua grew up in Machakos county, Kenya. His short story, ‘Small Mercies’, was longlisted for the 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prize. It was later published in The Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem ...

The June 25, 2025, demonstrations commemorated Kenya’s Generation Z show of public outrage over the then-proposed Finance Bill 2024. The youth confronted brute force with the epitaph, “In Loving ...

The June 25 protests are a political and social reset, and for those agitating for good governance, this movement defies tribal tropes, class cleavages and generational schisms.

Kenya is where it is because Kenyan institutions have remained solidly colonial and have stagnated, blocking Kenyans from building their own country.