As we start the new year, The Elephant editors have looked at some of their favourite stories over the past year, that stirred debate, provoked thought and produced new knowledge to the ongoing re-imagination of state and society. It was a great year of exceptional work for the knowledge platform and as part of The Elephant’s Editor’s Pick series for 2019, here are some of the best works.
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The New Frontier for Development and the Politics of Negation in Northern Kenya
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Speak of Me as I Am: Ethiopia, Native Identities and the National Question in Africa
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Reckoning with 400 Years: Remembrance, Resilience, Responsibility, Reparations and Redemption
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We Are Doctors, We Don’t Die: A Damascus Moment on a Kenyan Highway
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Battle of Ideas: The Social Responsibility of Intellectuals in Building Counter-Hegemonies
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Preeclampsia: The “Silent Killer” Stalking Expectant Mothers
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Toa Kitambulisho! Evolution of Registration of Persons in Kenya
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The Boy from Tandale: The Rise of Diamond and his Wasafi Record Label
