Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British ...

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 ...

The agreement (called a “Memorandum of Understanding”) signed between the United States and Iran in mid-June needs careful study in order to understand its real implications for the future of the ...

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 ...

In her writings spanning more than two decades in books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, anthologies and lately on X, Rasna Warah was preoccupied by recurring themes. She was, first and foremost, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 11 pm on Thursday, 20 th October 2011, I turn the last page of Coconut by Kopano Matlwa, and I know that I’m not going back to church again. I don’t know what that means at that moment, having been ...

In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...

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 ...

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, ...