The middle classes of Africa are often idealized as spearheads of democratization and opponents of corrupt regimes. But what does the research actually say?
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...
Even as they exert coercive power in Kenya, members of this class remain largely unrecognised as a class with its own economic interests and one that...
The Kenyan middle classes cannot anymore claim to sit on the fence. We are either for the current unacceptable and unsustainable status quo or we are...
In a prolonged crisis, formal establishment workers are more exposed to job losses and financial insecurity than those in the micro and small enterprise informal sector....
This short film by Amina Bint Mohamed, and featuring activist Aimee Ongeso, explores the concerns and challenges of the so-called ‘middle class’, a demographic whose definition...
How about asking those corporates lining up to have a photo op with “Githerman” to commit to equipping and maintaining the cancer machines at the oncology...