There are strong echoes across Africa of the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The reappearance of recession, debt and structural adjustment to the...
Yusuf Serunkuma asks how the continued and violent colonisation of the continent has not been more systematically resisted. In a long-read, Serunkuma looks at the extraordinary...
Stabilisation, liberalisation, deregulation, and privatisation: what do these four pillars of structural adjustment augur for Kenya’s beleaguered public health sector?
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...
On broken dreams, from an article written by Silas Nyanchwani.
From an article written by Wanjeri Gakuru.
I was ten years old in 1996 when my parents separated. It seems to me that I had never really noticed them before it happened. Until...
As Western donors make nice with the government and abandon Kenya’s vocal civil society organisations, can social media ride to the rescue of citizen activism? By...
China has learnt from the West’s weaponisation of sovereign debt as a tool for securing the sovereign assets and acquiescence of poorer countries.
I came back to Kenya immediately after my studies, armed with a master’s degree from one of the world’s most prestigious universities – and two years...
Back then harambees were festive occasions. The soon-to-be voyager stood coyly at the front, maybe draped in shiny tinsel, perhaps holding out a kiondo into which...
1. “Sap? Ahh in full pls? Yohhh I’m legit outttttt.”— Sandra, 23. I spent Mashujaa Day in a gallery in Kibera. Every Saturday, the gallery, Maasai...