I was walking past the University of Stirling’s Airthrey Loch when I saw a young Scottish man fishing at its edge. As a son of the lake, who grew up next to Nam Lolwe, renamed Lake Victoria by the ...

On the afternoon of 17 June 2025, I witnessed a large group of young men riding into central Nairobi on motorbikes carrying whips and clubs. They had come to break up a demonstration over the death of ...

Physical threats and digital disinformation are shifting the stakes for human rights defenders, as the fight for justice is redefined. How are they navigating the old and emerging threats, and what ...

Horace G. Campbell is the Kwame Nkrumah Chair at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He has published numerous articles on Pan-Africanism over the past forty years. For those who ...

Walk along Outering Road on any given afternoon and you will behold a spectacle now fully absorbed into Nairobi’s street culture: a matatu barrelling down the road, swaying side to side, a rapper’s ...

A peculiar reflex in global development discourse: Whenever a leader in the developing world wants to signal ambition, competence, and modernity, they invoke Singapore. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and, more ...

Ol Kalou, Nyandarua County. Thursday, July 16, 2026. 1:58 in the afternoon. A police vehicle sits motionless outside a polling station, surrounded not by officers but by residents. Uniformed police ...

Kenya is among African countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio and was categorised as at high risk of debt distress by the IMF in 2020. In just ten years, the debt-to-GDP ratio has increased by ...

Oral historians researching different Kenyan communities retell stories of seers such as Mugo wa Kibiru, Syokimau, Mbatian, Kimnyole arap Turukat, Orkoiyot Mugeni, Mepoho, and various Luo Jobilo who ...

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 ...

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center Artificial Intelligence (AI) fellowship, The Elephant tells the story of double-registered persons as part of Project Profile, over two years of investigations ...

We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...