In the first of a three-part series on mental health and activism in Kenya, Noosim Naimasiah writes about the pandemic of mental health breakdown in Kenya....
In this penultimate conversation, the panelists will explore how activism of different kinds has catalysed, enriched, nurtured, sustained, and challenged the Pan Africanist vision and mission...
All through history prophets have oscillated between one extreme end, the highest level of political leadership — what Plato called “the Philosopher King”, the ruler of...
The Kenyan state is trying to recreate the 1990s and send us back into the days of the dreaded special branch as it loses grip of...
On the 30th anniversary of the Saba Saba day, grassroots human rights defenders and allies held a protest and appeared in way that was not sanctioned...
The 30th Saba Saba anniversary comes at a time of great political apprehension, with the country in the throes of an economic meltdown and in the...
The seismic Saba Saba event was the first serious organised challenge to repression through defiance in Kenya. However, thirty years on, many of the people who...
The Elephant in conversation with Mwalimu Mutemi wa Kiama, an activist, social and political commentator and founder of the grassroots organisation The Wanjiku Revolution.
One could rightfully argue that protest music in Kenya is muted, not because artists are not producing it, but because the genre has been effectively driven...
It is safe to say that Mtukudzi was one of a group of African musicians – alongside the likes of Masekela – who were adopted by...