Kenya is today truly in the grip of election fever. Political temperatures are rising, the economy is at a standstill as votes are counted and tallied....
The Elephant in conversation with Edwin Mutemi wa Kiama.
The Elephant in conversation with Mshai Mwangola, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Wandia Njoya and Patrick Gathara.
The Elephant in conversation with Patrick Gathara, Mshai Mwangola, Wandia Njoya and Yvonne Owuor.
We all know that something big happened in Kenya in 2013: instead of all government power being concentrated in Nairobi, 47 new governments came into existence....
A couple of years ago, there was a contentious debate in academic and policy circles about the perceived decline in global democracy. Through all the talk...
In this episode, our host Mshai Mwangola, a performance scholar, speaks to Godwin Murunga a historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Nairobi.
In her subtly seminal work of fiction Dust, the novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owour names “silence” as Kenya’s third official language, after English and Kiswahili. Kenya today is...
Sometimes when I see an acacia tree, if the location is just right, I am transported back to my first home. For a moment, despite the...
Nairobi, Kenya – AN END TO THE POLITICS OF DIVISION On August 27, 2010, Kenya promulgated a progressive Constitution whose vision is social democracy. It’s a vision of the...
