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Racist Undertones in the Media’s Reporting of COVID-19’s Origins

Route to Food

The Food Series is a collaboration between The Elephant and the Route To Food Initiative (RTFI), exploring the complexity of the food question in Kenya and Africa. The series brings together a combination of voices and views, addressing the multiplicity of concerns behind the notion of food insecurity and the threat it poses as a violation of a basic human right for millions of citizens in Africa.
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Speak of Me as I Am: Ethiopia, Native Identities and the National Question in Africa

Ethiopia

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Silver Lining in the Coronavirus Pandemic

COVID-19

A Short History of Constitutions and What Politicians Do to Them

Linda Katiba

Moi’s Theatre of the Absurd: Reflections on My Generation’s President

The Moi Legacy

The Only Solution Is to Defund the Police

Abolish the Police

A Mother’s Love: ‘I’m So Happy My Son Came Out As Gay’

Living Queer

The Ones Who Are, But Don’t Exist: Being Nubian, and Kenyan

I Can’t Breathe

Read series: Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina

Your Dreams Are Not Valid Here

Beyond the Numbers

UTHAMAKI, GOD AND THE ECONOMY: ‘Tano Tena’ fails to deliver the Kingdom of Prosperity

Uthamaki

FROM INMATE TO PRESIDENT: Bemba’s star is shining but he could still be denied the presidency

DR Congo

AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY: Faith as a tense truce in an African reality

Let there be light

SIR VIDIA’S DARKEST SHADOW: V.S. Naipaul (1934-2018)

V.S Naipaul

The Making of Fatherless Nation

It’s a Man’s World

Brazen edition

Brazen

BIG FAT AFRICAN WEDDINGS: Commercialisation of traditional culture, and its consequences

Happily Ever After

EAST OF UHURU HIGHWAY: Inside Nairobi’s most iconic (and much-maligned) neighbourhoods

Nairobi City

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE: Who is monitoring air quality in Kenya?

Environment

HUNGER GAMES: Hard Times and Kenya’s Looming Economic Crisis

The Economy

AFRICA AND THE WORLD CUP: A Beautiful Tragedy

World cup 2018

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE: Roots of the crisis in Cameroon

Cameroon

Révolution Togo

Togo

Angola drain

Angola with Rafael Marques de Morais

Zuma succession

South Africa

Pourous Institutions

Nigeria

WHAT IS YOUR TRIBE? The Invention Of Kenya’s Ethnic Communities

The Tribe

REVENGE OF THE NERDS: Big data and the millennials’ digital dilemma

Technology

To make our roads safer, we need to make them feel less safe

Road Safety

SHAKING HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: Kenyans’ views on the Raila-Uhuru pact

The Handshake

PAN-AFRICANISM: An idea whose time will never come?

Pan Africanism

Contract with the devil

The Church

Education Africa

Education

Millenial Generation

The Millennial Generation

I’m Winnie Winnie Mandela

Winnie #SheMultiplied

THE TROUBLE WITH SOUTH SUDAN: A revolution that ate its own children

South Sudan

THE LESSER 52 PERCENT: Why women must demand equal pay for equal work

Gender Gap

Somaliland

Somaliland

Blind media

Media

CARROT AND STICK: How the British Defused Land Tensions in Kenya…Temporarily

Land

State of Angst

State of Angst

Luo Lives Matter

Luo Lives Matter

A Healthy Serving of Reality

Healthcare

DEVOLUTION: A dream deferred?

Devolution

Election Abyss

Kenya Elections 2017

Uganda torture legacy

Uganda

When A Coup Is Not A Coup: Why The Removal Of Mugabe Will Not Change Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

The Blow Edition

Blow

Corruption: Slaying the monster

Wizi na Uporaji (Corruption)

Overwhelming terror

Security

Railway rivalry

SGR

MWALIMU vs THE BULLDOZER: Has Magufuli overturned Nyerere’s legacy?

Tanzania

Donald Trump

This is America