The radical politics of the professional middle classes—too often found full of rhetoric, but short on action—are explored in Leo Zeilig’s new novel, The World Turned...
The idea that artists from privileged backgrounds might be the only ones left mentally fit to create art and give an artistic interpretation of the times...
The seemingly frivolous laws passed by the Kenyan state serve to entrench the hegemony of the elite and the extractive and exclusionary patterns of economics that...
In the end, it is up to Kenyans to hold their government accountable for the hardships it created. There is only so much the IMF can...
Stabilisation, liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation: what do these four pillars of structural adjustment augur for Kenya’s beleaguered public health sector?
What matters now is not a question of profitability, not a question of productivity, not a question of production rates. And no, it is not a...
The Jubilee government would have us believe that the country is economically healthy but the reality is that the IMF has come in precisely because Kenya...
African women's thought leadership on the economy continues to be invisiblised in the realm of economic narratives. This is a conversation with Fatimah Kelleher who speaks...
As the G20 meet to discuss the global economic recovery, the Debt Justice group calls for a radical break with extraction and austerity — and proposes...
Two years ago economist David Ndii broke down the duality within the Kenyan economy, the power of political choices to shape economic reality and the economic...
As of June this year, our public debt was 6.6 trillion shillings. Each Kenyan citizen, including those born now, owes creditors at least 139,000 shillings due...
Only with careful concerns for the human cost of Ecuador’s capital outflows, fiscal consolidation, and wage ‘rationalization’ can the IMF make good on the bloody legacy...