Uganda is approaching one of the most precarious political transitions in its post-independence history. The likely trajectory is not democratic consolidation but the slow institutionalization of a ...

In the boardrooms of Addis Ababa and the tech hubs of Nairobi, a new worldmaking project is underway. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the central arenas where African states negotiate ...

The world of comics serves as a crucial social infrastructure of society helping mirror and mimic our world and enriching it. The comic community explored the world of comics in light of the latest ...

As I sat there listening to a friend who owns a small business, I wondered whether there are different tax regimes in Kenya depending on what form of commercial activity one undertakes. Despite ...

The early twenty-first century is a time of monsters in the Global South. What do these monsters look like? Let me begin with those at work closest to home, namely in post-apartheid South Africa, ...

There is a silent population inside Kenya’s correctional facilities that rarely enters public debate, penal policy discourse, or the national imagination. They appear in no crime statistics, are ...

“It is not from the benevolence (kindness) of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” – Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature ...

The East German secret police kept a file on Michael Jackson. He performed near the Berlin Wall in June 1988, and the preparations for his arrival were elaborate. A memo dated May 4, 1988, recorded ...

The recurring reports of violence, racism, and xenophobia against undocumented “sub-Saharan” African migrants in Libya and in Tunisia are very concerning. Prompt scrutiny into a complex and often ...

This is the second of a two-part series that assesses the historical progress of the Pan-African movement and considers the global political economy, the relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st ...

No place in Kenya has been more affected by brutal curfews, lockdowns, and policing of bodies than northern Kenya. While state-sanctioned violence has been a central feature of life in northern Kenya ...

A little over a month after Kenya adopted the amended Climate Act, the government evicted the residents of Sasimwani, Narok County, from their homes. David Ndaraiya, a leader of the forest-dwelling ...