Kenya’s third liberation is laden with all kinds of tentative solidarities between the Gen Zs and their elders, with lessons drawn from the past finding new meaning and expression in the current fight ...
The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...
For decades, the standard explanation for Africa’s weak institutions has barely changed. The story goes like this: corruption is the root cause of institutional failure, and the solution is ...
One thing ordinary white people seem prone to forgetting, is just how deeply they are despised by the elite class of their own societies, a thing that has led to immense historical delusions with many ...
Stakeholders in the logistics industry are questioning the abrupt directive by the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) requiring all imports to be insured ...
In light of the recent political events since June 2024 in Kenya, a dearth of voices have tried to situate and tie these sets of events to immediate pressing concerns and triggers such as theft and ...
“What are you going to do for us today?” one of the boys asks me. I tell him I have brought some bread and milk and there is an eruption of cheers and shouts. It is as if Kenya has won the World Cup, ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s unfortunate encounter with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office during a pre-meeting press conference may cause African leaders to meditate on the meaning ...
The imperative of judicial accountability is inviolable, both as a matter of constitutional compliance and as a matter of good practice and as an antidote against judicial impunity and the anarchy of ...
Last month, Kenya’s president William Ruto offered to host the second biennial African Climate Summit later this year, should no other African country be willing to take on the task. Ruto made this ...
The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...