Sometime in 2014, then in my late 20s, I attended a birthday party in a middle-class Nairobi suburb. The host was a young Nairobi millionaire, a wheeler-dealer. The birthday boy was destined to become ...

There is a particular kind of grief that comes from watching your country break the same promises your parents once believed in. For Kenyan millennials – those born between 1981 and 1996 – this grief ...

Kenyan millennials have become a generation in limbo: the defining cohort of a betrayed promise. This edition asks with ...

I am thirty-seven years old, childless by circumstance and by choice. I’m still learning how to name it. I live in a small rural town where the road thins into red dust and silence arrives before ...

In signing the 2021 Defence Agreement with the UK, Kenya lost an opportunity to put an end to the impunity with which BATUK soldiers have been involved in abuses against Kenyans. Dr. Owiso Owiso is an ...

They were born into a nascent democracy, weaned on the rhetoric of liberalisation, Structural Adjustment Programs, and globalisation. Theirs was to be the dividend of the new constitution, a ...

July 5, 2025. I get a call from my colleague, Eve. “Ty, please come to the venue right now”. This was strange as I wasn’t supposed to show up until two hours later. She, however, sounded very worried, ...

Born into a nascent democracy and weaned on the rhetoric of liberalisation, Structural Adjustment Programs, and globalisation. theirs was to be the dividend of the new constitution, a generation ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

The government has backtracked on a directive that was, ironically, issued by President William Ruto when he was Kenya’s agriculture minister. In 2009, Ruto banned the export of unprocessed macadamia ...

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. As ...