Religion has never been peripheral to Kenyan politics. Churches have provided welfare, organized communities and challenged governments; they have also offered political leaders networks of influence ...

In 2024, a wave of youth-led protests in Kenya, which organizers and commentators came to call “Occupy Churches”, directed itself not at the state but at the country’s most visible religious ...

The paradox of press freedom in Rwanda is that despite the advent of alternative media, younger journalists are more controlled than their older counterparts. “Today’s generation? Yeah, they’re ...

Since the “Occupy Churches” mobilisations of 2024, religious institutions across Kenya have come under intensified public scrutiny, not merely over doctrine, but over power, money, and accountability.

What does faith have to do with identity? This is what I asked when I was invited to give a keynote lecture on 18 September 2025 at a workshop held at the Centre for Interfaith Studies in Africa at ...

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 ...

What does faith have to do with identity? This is what I asked when I was invited to give a keynote lecture on 18 September 2025 at a workshop held at the Centre for Interfaith Studies in Africa at ...

Sometime this past week, an Iranian parliamentary official told a Lebanese television channel that Tehran had received an invitation to join the Mecca Accord. No signature, no letterhead, no ...

For a younger generation in particular, cynicism about institutional religion has moved beyond the familiar woke labels of the 2010s. Rather, they find it difficult to relate to a religion that has ...

The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

Kenya’s crisis stems from elites disconnected from our societal roots. Imported from global neoliberal templates, they prioritize foreign debt traps, IMF dictates, and elite capture over organic, ...