On the first anniversary of the protests against the Finance Bill 2024 and the storming of Parliament, we cannot help being struck by the reality that Kenya was at this same point 30 years ago. Thirty ...

During the South Sudan independence celebrations on 9 July 2011 at Freedom Square, next to the John Garang Mausoleum, the unity of purpose and hope for the future was electrifying. One could hardly ...

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 ...

Our democratic order manifests in a more pluralistic society, where freedoms in all areas of life have become even more valuable. Yet, while no right is absolute, the most basic freedom in a ...

For decades now, the United Nations (UN) and its collaborators have been saying that humanity faces an existential threat due to “global warming” caused by human activities (“anthropogenic factors”).

A few weeks into the protests that were sparked off by the Kenya government’s belligerent persistence in passing the Finance Bill, the government spokesman, Isaac Maura, held a presser in which he ...

Amidst Kenya's #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...

Somaliland is facing consequential party and presidential elections in 2024. While past elections have been hailed both locally and internationally as a cornerstone of the country’s nascent democracy, ...

With the declared outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, the world changed in ways most of us could not have possibly anticipated – “contact tracing”, “social distancing”, meticulous handwashing, ...

The differences in the performance of the “Hustler Man” in Kenya and the “Upright Man” in Burkina Faso is a function of genuine belief in transformational leadership, on the one hand, and mere ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

Jewish plans in the 1900s to create a homeland in the highlands of East Africa came to nothing. If they had gone ahead, the Holocaust may never have happened. The state of Israel may never have been ...