Kenya is in an argument between its past and its future. Some might say that this argument has been brewing for a long time, and they would be right. Every day that Kenya has spent as “Kenya” has been ...

Millennials were supposed to be the generation that fixed things. We were told this over and over again, sometimes admiringly, sometimes with suspicion. We were audacious. Radical. Too loud. Too ...

During the first term of the Uhuru presidency, when the Kenya government was preoccupied with swaying public opinion as opposed to being political, it was not unusual for citizen criticism of the ...

Western deception has been with Africa forever. 1493: Pope Alexander VI issued a papal bull, Inter Caetera, proclaiming the right of Spain and Portugal to enslave Africans and own the land. They were ...

Detained on 28 July 2025 after being shot by police on the first day of Angola’s taxi drivers’ strike, Serrote José de Oliveira — widely known as “General Nila” — has been held for over six months ...

I closed out 2025 with Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison, raised my head long enough to watch the fireworks displays that welcomed 2026 in Nairobi then quickly bowed my head again to quench my intrigue ...

After finishing a long journey of studies in language and literature, the first shock I got on returning home to start my academic career was from the concept of “practical subjects” that are ...

What happens after the protests? How do you translate protests into policy? In this episode, Shakira Wafula walks us through the various strands that give the active citizen a pathway to reform, even ...

As is still common in the “Global South,” Affo, 29, was born in a polygamous family comprising more than two dozen children. Yet, he is the second child to have obtained a high school degree and the ...

At the height of the Gen Z protests, a network of dedicated professionals came together to meet the movement’s diverse and evolving needs. In this episode, we sit down with Joshua Okayo, a leader, ...

Abdou Rahim Lema is doing a Ph.D. at the University of Montreal, where he is a former Vanier Scholar (2022), He is also a former Yenching Scholar of Peking University.

As Gen Z looks ahead, the focus is shifting toward consolidating the gains of the revolution and translating momentum into lasting political power. In this episode, we speak with Sophie Mugure, a Gen ...