We hear the term 'White Saviourism' and think it only applies to the egregious examples we see on Social Media but it applies much broader to...
It is a real honour to bring to you my discussion with Ruth Levine, the CEO of IDinsight - a research and advisory organization that works...
The historic and humanistic project of fashioning African futures entails retrieving the past and reconstructing the present, and investing our imaginations and energies in envisioning a...
Two University of Stanford students Shiro and Phuthi explore the internal struggles at work balancing, competing priorities of justice for fellow Africans with pursuit of personal...
Two brilliant African graduate students Shiro Wachira and Phuthi Tsatsi are from the University of Stanford, with plenty of experience in development sector in Kenya and...
The spread of democracy and the application of economic policies championed by Western and foreign powers has not led to economic and political development that benefits...
Graham Harrison argues that all development is capitalist development. Based on his recent book, Developmentalism, he argues that development is not only risky and likely to...
Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in Western Kenya, Mario Schmidt argues that local interpretations of Give Directly’s unconditional cash transfer program unmask how the NGO’s...
The Elephant speaks to one of Kenya's leading political scientists Prof. Karuti Kanyinga, Director, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi on the politics of...