After 9/11, the focus of US policy towards immigrants and visitors turned sharply against Africans even though to date no African has been implicated in a...
Events leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 offer a sobering lesson on why we cannot rely on the UN Security Council to save...
Kenyans’ collective trauma has been exacerbated by a culture of violence, greed, betrayal and impunity.
A disturbing report on the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children in the DRC has laid bare the failure of UN agencies to protect...
In his new book, Father Gabriel Dolan explains his life’s work in Kenya and why he chose to speak truth to power.
The American experiment in Afghanistan failed, but why should women and girls pay the price?
Nanjala Nyabola’s new book reflects on Africans’ experiences of dislocation, exile, belonging and not belonging.
Africans know what it means to be the object of “disaster porn”. Now Indians are getting the same treatment.
What Saadawi taught me was that the oppression of women – whether in feudal societies or in capitalist ones – is not confined to any religion...
Neglect of the public healthcare system, suppression of scientific information and sacrificing citizen welfare for political mileage have led to the public health crisis facing India...
The Jubilee government would have us believe that the country is economically healthy but the reality is that the IMF has come in precisely because Kenya...
The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his...
