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...
Thandika will be sorely missed by the entire African intellectual community. His brilliance was matched by his humility, wit and willingness to mentor new generations of...
American social practices, as well as entrenched cultural values like individualism, have greatly contributed to the spread of coronavirus even as doctors struggle to contain the...
This is a season. Its length and breadth we do not know. And if we all look at our respective lives, we’ve all been here before.
It has been barely two weeks since the first case of coronavirus was detected in Kenya yet the ramifications of the pandemic are already being painfully...
Mr. President, you need to get your act together for this. This is our last big ask from you. It’s also your last scene on the...
There is a looming generational change and it will not be defined by the rules that the Uhuru generation demands that the millennials live by. Generation...
