We must fight to remain human, to make connections across borders, race, religion, class, gender, and all the false divisions that exist in our world. We...
It was a landmark case for its time, a first for East Africa and possibly for the continent. A group of Africans challenged a colonial power...
The struggle for control of Mau Mau memory and memorialisation resurfaces with the burial of Mukami Kimathi.
There are parallels to be drawn between the colonial measures of regulation, control and containment imposed on Africans and those imposed on today’s refugees and migrants.
Peaceful social change starts with landmark actions that receive international attention and change public perceptions.
Maasai leaders have presented the BBI Taskforce with demands that lands stolen in colonial times and post-1963 “revert” to the Maa Nation. But what does “reversion”...
Geothermal development in Kenya is widely welcomed as green, clean and good for the country. But behind the glowing publicity is a hidden story of forced...
Kenyans are reportedly “being taken by storm” by Parler, a newish right-wing social media platform. But do they really know how toxic the storm sweeping over...
When BLM demonstrators tore the bronze statue of the seventeenth century slave ship owner Edward Colston from its plinth in Bristol, they triggered a discussion on...