Place, Identity and National Imagination in Post-Katiba Kenya explores the ever-present issue of Kenyan identity from a spatial perspective and focuses on the implications of Northern...
The blanket terming of northerners as terrorists informs Kenya’s policy on asylum and refugees, and leads to human rights abuses.
Pre-independence, Kenya's Northern Frontier Districts fought to be part of Somalia during Shifta War or Gaf Daba (1963–1967). While newly independent Kenya won against the "Shifta,"...
The introduction of the biometric e-passport has been beset by delays that have seen the government push forward its own deadlines several times.
Africans are saddled with the burdens of colonial structures that the post-colonial elites simply refuse to supplant. If language is a unifier of cultural, economic and...
Culture is at the centre of the quest to resolve identity issues in Kenya’s arts scene. Artists and experts continue to dialogue on whether we have...
It is so absurd, to the extent that without an ID, one cannot legally die, which is what happened to my father. He does not have...
Under the Registration of Persons Act (Cap.107), it is a requirement by the law of Kenya that a Kenyan citizen who attains the age of eighteen...
An Interview with Joy Mboya Joy Mboya is the Director of the GoDown Arts Centre in Nairobi—a nonprofit institution for the convergence of the arts in...
In a changing world, where conversations in the post-colonial space among Africans on the continent and people of African descent in the diaspora are gaining traction...
Today, we have the opportunity to re-imagine our psychological definition of what it means to be Kenyan, to inculcate in our children the truth that, of...
