In April of 1963, with Kenya in the grip of election fever – KANU vs KADU – the last Governor General of Kenya, Malcolm MacDonald – whose health had fallen apart under the strain of Somali demands for ...

Every day, Grace* sits in people’s homes and asks them questions that range from the odd to the intrusive. What type of toilet do you use? What is your roof made of? Do you own a radio? She helps the ...

American writer Barbara Tuchman remarked that “war is the unfolding of miscalculations.” As part of those calculations, the value of each of the lives lost to war should not be measured any ...

Even before the grass has grown upon the grave of the late ODM party leader, Raila Amolo Odinga, his party is experiencing upheavals; public spats and deep rifts have appeared that threaten to tear ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first official trip to Africa started with a fascinating stop in Algeria. Here, the pontiff’s visit to the Grand Mosque of Algiers was an attempt to strengthen Christian-Muslim ...

The 1980s were particularly difficult times for Kenya, crowned by the humiliating spectacle of having to go cap in hand to the Bretton Woods institutions, also known as the International Monetary Fund ...

The language of economic policy is designed to obscure. Fiscal consolidation sounds responsible, even prudent. “Structural adjustment” suggests repair, improvement, optimization. “Widening the tax ...

A series of infections during my primary school days saw me return to the local public hospital for medical attention regularly. Over the course of these visits, accompanied by my mother, I observed ...

Many in Kenya are approaching the “fuliza limit” and they are mourning the possibility of what could have been. They question the logic of trading state responsibility for private, high‑interest debt, ...

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East should actually be understood as a new stage in the long-standing crisis of American constitutionalism. The mounting chaos around how American President Trump is ...

On January 14, the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) exposed a wide-ranging black-hat image-laundering scheme that implicated government and philanthropic leaders. Among the culprits, ...

Six years after COVID-19, the world is facing another pandemic. It is a little-known disease but very destructive: rhetorical exoticism – mentioning the woes or wonders of some remote place to make a ...