4 min read. The anger fostered by the response of the police to protests in 2017 has not been addressed by the “handshake”. There is a...
1 min read. An analysis of the crafty yet imperfect theatrics of undercover intelligence agents on Nairobi's streets, written by Alexander Ikawah.
1 min read. On security, stop and frisk in Nairobi, from an article written by Constant Cap.
1 min read. On the Kenyan national identity card, from an article written by Wanjeri Gakuru.
6 min read. The “War on Terror” is a disruption, that makes normal, absurd reality, a privation of humanity, a shape-shifting enemy that yearns for innocent...
1 min read. The sound of the gun was so loud that we thought he had shot at us from inside the building, perhaps from the...
10 min read. I have been thinking about the old man who spoke to me on my way to work. Why me? Why did he follow...
5 min read. There has arisen a new security architecture mostly in the city that commodifies our fears, and develops surveillance products to monetise it. They promote an...
8 min read. After the Garissa massacre, universities became like military installations. Private security firms were deployed to man the gates and the buildings within universities....
5 min read. I. Some years ago, I forgot my national ID in a jeans pocket before a wash and it’s been steadily losing glue ever...
