The Kenyan society is yet to decide what the 2024 protests meant for the country, and its citizens, and where to situate it in a long history of agitation. The widespread offline and online dissent ...
How did a mega-project in Lamu turn into a David vs Goliath case in court? It all started in 2012, when 28 farmers entered into an agreement with a Belgian energy company to erect wind turbines on ...
The re-election of Donald Trump and his return to the White House on January 20, 2025, has spurred debates regarding the consequences this new chapter in the leadership of the United States could have ...
Merika felt freedom and joy while she watched Chinese karate movies. Her soul vanished into the world of the monks training at their bronze gilded temples, the bonsai gardens, the sweeping rice fields ...
Maxwell Amunga delves into the Mathare Valley community north of Nairobi to take stock of the players, the pains, and the aftermath of a complex problem, laden with costly and desperate solutions that ...
In 2019, Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot welcomed me at his home. He had just turned 90. We spoke about his role as editor of the encyclopedic UNESCO project that produced the invaluable volumes of the General ...
Some lives are so full, so luminous, that even in passing, their glow remains, illuminating the paths of those they touched. Professor Bethwell A. Ogot was such a life—a giant in African ...
Watching the Too Early for Birds Tom Mboya edition at the Visa Oshwal auditorium on the last Saturday of January, one thing that stood out was Tom Mboya’s casual greatness. It was possible to trace ...
The past month has witnessed an extraordinary assault on press freedom and the democratic right of journalists to hold the most powerful to account. Those attacks were not waged by rogue State House ...
The past month has witnessed an extraordinary assault on press freedom and the democratic right of journalists to hold the most powerful to account. Those attacks were not waged by rogue State House ...
The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia Northern Area Office (FGAE NAO) is on the verge of closure, leaving thousands in Tigray without vital sexual and reproductive health services. The head of ...
Rasna Warah’s life was intimately woven with the crisis of knowledge in Kenya. She was the voice that remained unsilent in a country that wages war against knowledge and imagination. Rasnah was ...