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...
We keep houses in Nairobi, but our true north is back in the place where we grew up. We are to the lives of our families...
There is a world of githeri people living at the bottom of Nairobi’s urban existence, homeless or living in squalor. But the existential threat posed by...
Despite a curfew and the threat posed by COVID-19, it is business as usual in Kenya. Bribe-taking and beatings by the police have not stopped. And...
I have been lucky to meet many intellectual giants in my life. The truly great, like Louis Henkin-my Constitutional Law Professor in Graduate School - and...
