On November 3, 2017, Kenya’s main opposition party, the National Super Alliance (NASA), spelt out to its supporters the names of three companies whose products they ought to boycott because of these companies’ association with the ruling Jubilee party. The three companies were: Safaricom, the giant money-minting mobile telecommunications company; Brookside Dairies, the largest milk-producing […]
The epic legal battles which have defined Kenya’s presidential contest this year ended, not with the loud bang of the Chief Justice David Maraga’s gavel, but with a whimper and muted celebrations. In the end, it seems, even the resolute Justice David Maraga-led Supreme Court succumbed to political intimidations and Jubilee secured a hard-wrung, bloodstained […]
The Elephant in conversation with Robtel Neajai Pailey, academic, writer and activist.
The Elephant in conversation with Robtel Neajai Pailey, academic, writer and activist.
The Elephant in conversation with Andrew Franklin, a security consultant and former US Marine.
The Elephant in conversation with Yves Niyiragira, Executive Director of Fahamu and John Githongo, former anti-graft Czar.
The Elephant in conversation with Mshai Mwangola, a performance scholar and researcher and Mwende Gatabaki, Kenya's Digital Transformation Visionary.
As the 16th Assembly of States Parties (ASP) concluded on Thursday, December 14, 2017, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, one could not help but notice the diminished interest Kenya now has for the annual gathering since the country’s post-election violence cases ended with no justice for the victims. The ASP is an annual […]
The spread of mobile phones across Africa has been one of the continent’s success stories over the past two decades, transforming lives through better communication and simpler banking. It has also resulted in huge profits for powerful international companies – and for some of Africa’s wealthiest and best-connected individuals. But an investigation into the African interests of […]