8 min read. Was the 2019 census conducted on behalf of certain commercial/political interests as a tool that could be used for marketing goods or to...
9 min read. Kenya’s bid to have Al Shabaab listed as a terrorist organisation by the UN Security Council has raised several questions about the timing...
5 min read. The literary world has lost yet another icon. Another healer of wounds is no longer with us. But Morrison’s language and words will...
8 min read. Did President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee party win the 2013 and 2017 elections fairly, or did a dubious UK-based consultancy company help...
7 min read. The UN’s silence on Khashoggi’s much-publicised murder was surprising for many because his killing had created shockwaves globally, not only because it had...
8 min read. In many ways, Kikuyu privilege is akin to white or male privilege in that most Kikuyus are not even aware of it. Here...
7 min read. The campaign against a coal-fired plant in Lamu is a good example of how a small, voiceless community can be mobilised to fight...
9 min read. RASNA WARAH argues that the 2019/2020 and other budgets prepared by the Jubilee government are essentially predatory and borrow heavily from the British...
6 min read. Narendra Modi epitomises the kind of neo-fascist right-wing leadership that is sweeping across some parts of Europe, the United States, South America, Asia,...
8 min read. There is no doubt that Binyavanga Wainaina forever changed the literary landscape in Kenya, opening it up to a new generation of Kenyans...
