Countries that adopt ethnic recognition go on to experience less violence, more economic vitality, and more democratic politics.
Asking whether or not the census should continue to count ethnic groups is one way into the difficult conversation about how to reckon with the legacies...
In many ways, Kikuyu privilege is akin to white or male privilege in that most Kikuyus are not even aware of it. Here in Kenya, argues...
Post-colonial Africa’s historical ideological trajectory has been to insist that all the peoples found within any given set of colonial borders at independence could only be...
Humans are much more than just a small player in the constantly shifting picture of life on Earth. Together with atmospheric change, we have been one...
Luyias have never been able to take advantage of their numbers to gain or forge strong, collective political mileage. They have been unable to put their...
As the theatre of the politics of succession leading to 2022 plays out in the expansive Rift Valley region, the spectre of the ever-simmering land question...
To Mzee, It is not your fault. You did not fail to lead. You had no thought. You did not fail to protect. You had no...
Somaliland’s 2017 elections, which were generally hailed as successful, have prompted some to wonder whether the democracy model used in this self-declared independent state could be...
Early last year, some members of Kenya’s Asian community visited a Nairobi branch of the Jubilee Party and demanded that Kenyan Asians – the vast majority...
Thus colonialism imposed its own version of order, superimposed its idea of tribes bounded within district boundaries on this ethnic patchwork, and even created an entirely...
I drive a taxi in Nairobi. This has led me to see the world from behind the wheel, the one position I have occupied for close...
