Nicholas Okumu is a surgeon and health advocate based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The best ideas in global health and development often come from the margins. So why do we still ignore them?

A triple heritage forms the background to Kavirondo: The Story of Luos and Luhyas, a book that explores the writer’s multiple identities.

“African Solutions for African Problems” rings hollow as the AU continues to rely on external support to finance its core functions and programmes, especially in conflict resolution and peacekeeping.

Amidst Kenya's #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...

Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.

David Ndii is a leading Kenyan economist and public intellectual.

Rasna Warah is a Kenyan writer and journalist. In a previous incarnation, she was an editor at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She has published two books on Somalia – War ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement.

Journalist and activist John Githongo reflects on the shifting story of anti-corruption in Africa, from Western models to new agendas.

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...