Out of a population of more than 36 million, only 22 million Kenyans were registered to vote, and just 14 million actually cast their ballots. Political apathy in Kenya is not a new phenomenon. As ...

Not known for adhering to any particular lasting strategy, Trump sees each day in the White House as an episode in a reality show in which he seeks an advantage over his rivals, if not to vanquish ...

Many in Kenya are approaching the “fuliza limit” and they are mourning the possibility of what could have been. They question ...

A series of infections during my primary school days saw me return to the local public hospital for medical attention regularly. Over the course of these visits, accompanied by my mother, I observed ...

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East should actually be understood as a new stage in the long-standing crisis of American constitutionalism. The mounting chaos around how American President Trump is ...

Now, more than a decade after leaving high school, we have made it a routine to frequently meet in a movie store, almost every evening. We are weary and jarred by the despair of our current situations ...

Sometime last year, just after the June protests, when the city still carried the aftertaste of the deaths that occurred, I ran into a friend in a dim-lit joint in Westlands that I tend to drift into ...

On January 14, the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) exposed a wide-ranging black-hat image-laundering scheme that implicated government and philanthropic leaders. Among the culprits, ...

Much of Kenya’s political language implicitly genders failure as female, imagining it as wearing a female face or inhabiting a female body. Much of Kenya’s political language implicitly genders ...

Kenya is facing its second wave of austerity measures, dictated by international lenders, chiefly the IMF and the World Bank. It is a reality so stark that younger generations of Kenyans have been ...

The economy continues to reflect a complex and ambiguous dynamic with a very vivid lived reality for the citizens. What will it take for Kenya to build proper safeguards that ensure the public finance ...