The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...

There has been intense investment in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) across the African continent. The argument is that technological investment is the future. Relatedly, ...

Tax incentives are deductions, exclusions, or exemptions from taxes that are due to the government. They are employed as incentives to draw money flows into desired economic sectors or areas, or to ...

Whenever I tune into a Kenyan life story, be it an Engage Talk, a podcast, or a memoir, I wait for the Alliance moment. Teaching at Alliance. Joining Alliance. Failing to make the grades or to pass ...

How does one society’s intellectual elites apply themselves to developing knowledge that distributes prosperity, while another applies the same knowledge to systematically commit at an industrial ...

Kenya was established as “a white man’s country”, where colonial settlers would wield political power and wealth at the top of a racial hierarchy, and Africans would remain at the bottom, destined to ...

The details coming out of the American Epstein Files are leaving many ordinary people angry, confused, and disgusted. This is understandable. The files are records from an American criminal ...

Beneath the glamour and pomp of the Africa-France Summit, a new web of influence trades culture for clout: secret deals, sleek intermediaries, and power repackaged for the digital age. Who profits ...

The year 2025 did not mark the arrival of new global challenges so much as the consolidation of existing ones into a more demanding and less forgiving international environment. Across regions, ...

In April of 1963, with Kenya in the grip of election fever – KANU vs KADU – the last Governor General of Kenya, Malcolm MacDonald – whose health had fallen apart under the strain of Somali demands for ...

“Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet – that is imperialism.” – Thomas Sankara The violence that accompanied European colonisation of Africa people was a ...

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 ...