So what does it mean to be young, aspirational, driven, yet caught up in a country with so much potential yet so few results? Who benefits from the structural deficiency built into public life, and ...

I owe Andrew Mtagwaba Kailembo, who has died at the age of 92, a debt of gratitude. News of Andrew’s death on 6 March 2026 took me back to early 1990, when I got my first permanent and pensionable job ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 2026 economic survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kenya’s economy stands at a crossroads: outwardly resilient, with projected growth hovering around 4.5–5.0 percent and a relatively stable macro‑environment, yet weighed down by persistent fiscal ...

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 ...