The lockdown in Entebbe brings back memories of another lockdown in a boarding school in Teso, where, in the midst of a raging war and looming...
Unable to exploit the internet like their more fortunate peers, poor students in Kenya’s rural areas are losing more of what little chance they have to...
The Binj, a larger-than-life personality who, through sheer force of will, opened up the literary space for young African writers who have gone on to give...
A Kenyan investigative journalist reflects on the capture of a genocidaire in Paris after 26 years on the run and its significance to the families of...
Following the abduction and torture of Member of Parliament Hon. Francis Zaake, the Uganda Police and the Criminal Investigations Department staged a sham investigation with the...
With no vaccine or treatment and no widespread testing, contact tracing, and mandatory wearing of masks, US officials have fallen back on isolation, the medieval response...
This pandemic comes as a storm that re-orients, reconfigures, and most significantly, strips and exposes us. It has put a semicolon on what passes as ‘normal’...
A tribute to the legendary Kiswahili literature icon, Ken Walibora
Today is a new day. Not quite of the New Dawn. The old lingers on. Depressing news of deaths keep streaming in. I am clean-shaved
Kenya is caught between the difficulty of what needs to be done to slow the spread of COVID-19, and what its majority must do to survive...
