Kisumo! The place of sumo! The land of opportunity where, when in need, you go to seek for and collect food from friends and family. And...
“Elections are the surest way through which the people express their sovereignty. Our Constitution is founded upon the immutable principle of the sovereign will of the...
On September 30, 2017, the NASA quartet – Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula – held a press conference to alert Kenyans on...
Beyond “this is Kenya,” as repeated rhetoric, as persistent beat, as phallocratic insistence, as inevitability, lie freedom dreams.
The Elephant in conversation with Patrick Gathara, Mark Kaigwa, Nanjala Nyabola and Mutemi wa Kiama
President Museveni and his cabal ignore these political developments at his peril. In calculating the breaking-point, both he and the international lending agencies that enable him...
The post-general election environment in Kenya has been characterised by efforts to crackdown on two human rights organisations. While this recent onslaught appears to be leveled...
I was twelve years old when the first invasions of white-owned farms by Zimbabwe’s war veterans were announced on television. The year was 2000. What followed,...
The Elephant in conversation with Patrick Gathara, Mshai Mwangola, Wandia Njoya and Yvonne Owuor.
The ‘psychographics’ experts who swung the US elections will have a hard time solving Kenya’s tribal arithmetic
Four police operatives who were charged with torturing a local politician were on May 30 granted bail, hardly a week after they had been remanded to...
In her subtly seminal work of fiction Dust, the novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owour names “silence” as Kenya’s third official language, after English and Kiswahili. Kenya today is...
