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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of Heroes and Hero Worship? Some Musings on the First Chapter of ‘The Big Conservation Lie’ by John Mbaria and Mordecai Ogada ...

Faith Kasina is the coordinator of Kayole Community Justice Centre. Through this organisation, she aims to promote social justice in informal settlements through community engagement and the use of ...

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 ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci In 1994, I was a fresh, naïve, graduate of a Bachelor’s of Education degree, believing ...

On the 14th of February 2023, Kenya held a national prayer day in accordance with our government’s habit of holding ‘prayers’ when certain stressors reach an unbearable level on a national scale.