No place in Kenya has been more affected by brutal curfews, lockdowns, and policing of bodies than northern Kenya. While state-sanctioned violence has been a central...
The rigid distinction between “the tolerant secularist” versus the “barbaric religious fundamentalist” in today’s discourse on the global War on Terror has been employed to justify...
The anger fostered by the response of the police to protests in 2017 has not been addressed by the “handshake”. There is a growing sense amongst...
An analysis of the crafty yet imperfect theatrics of undercover intelligence agents on Nairobi's streets, written by Alexander Ikawah.
On security, stop and frisk in Nairobi, from an article written by Constant Cap.
On the Kenyan national identity card, from an article written by Wanjeri Gakuru.
The “War on Terror” is a disruption, that makes normal, absurd reality, a privation of humanity, a shape-shifting enemy that yearns for innocent lives and souls;...
The sound of the gun was so loud that we thought he had shot at us from inside the building, perhaps from the ground floor through...
I have been thinking about the old man who spoke to me on my way to work. Why me? Why did he follow and ‘perform’ for...
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 ever-expanding range of...
