For African nations, the success of their Olympians offers an opportunity not just to inspire a continent but to drive ...

If the US and Israel can unilaterally decide who lives or who dies in this world, and suffer no sanctions, then we are truly ...

Coupled with a military not inclined to political experiments, Kenya’s lengthy history of civic-based activism has helped the ...

“What then were we to do as writers?” Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe asks in his memoir There Was a Country, a personal recount of the Biafran war. What were the creatives to do – the writers, ...

The Israeli-US genocide in Palestine has re-focused global attention on colonialism and its centrality to capitalism. And it has shown peoples’ need to live free of violence in a state safe from ...

If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences Professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse ...

In Martin Scorsese’s film The Departed, there’s a scene in which a police recruit is asked, “Do you want to be a cop, or do you want to appear to be a cop?” At the start of September, several notable ...

On Friday the 6 th of September 2024, Kenyans woke up to the distressing news that at least 17 pupils of Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni, Nyeri County, had lost their lives through a dormitory ...

“It was not just the SARS-cov-2 virus. That was just the jumping off point – and jump we did, a world in perfect synchronicity. The frantic response knew no bounds: there was the shifting target of ...