8 min read. The backward looking accounts, the-good-Moi-bad-Moi debate being waged on social media, and the yaliyopita ni ndwele nostalgia of television talk shows are peripheral...
14 min read. Much has been written about Daniel arap Moi, and his death has uncorked a litany of previously hidden details and insights into the...
10 min read. Ali Zaidi and I parachuted into Kenya when it was easier to form relationships and friendships based on shared interests and common humanity....
12 min read. PAUL GOLDSMITH explores the evolution of agriculture policies in Kenya that failed to recognise the importance of smallholder farming, which has proved to...
10 min read. This is the journal of the journeys of a Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) team studying natural resource management in Marsabit District. Our...
16 min read. In this final part of a three-part series, PAUL GOLDSMITH traces the rise and fall of the lowland-coastal regions of East Africa and...
14 min read. In this second part of a three-part series, PAUL GOLDSMITH explains why, instead of being a solution to the problem of food insecurity,...
9 min read. In this first part of a three-part series, PAUL GOLDSMITH questions the wisdom of Kenya’s prioritisation of big dam projects in the face...
17 min read. Lamu, home to the Islamic tradition that is most resistant to religious extremism in the region, has become a battleground in the longstanding...
13 min read. Falling fertility and mortality rates have put Kenya in line to reap the same demographic dividend that powered the rise of the Asian...
