We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s decision to turn to abduction, atrocity, and massacre now threatens the political pre-eminence of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and could rewrite the rules about how the African ...

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 ...

In signing the 2021 Defence Agreement with the UK, Kenya lost an opportunity to put an end to the impunity with which BATUK soldiers have been involved in abuses against Kenyans. Dr. Owiso Owiso is an ...

Nations that failed to secure their independence through sustained resistance and sacrifice typically remain under foreign control through increasingly sophisticated mechanisms. Paper independence ...

An urban development masterplan for Nairobi City, developed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in December 2014.

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.

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

The language of economic policy is designed to obscure. Fiscal consolidation sounds responsible, even prudent. “Structural adjustment” suggests repair, improvement, optimization. “Widening the tax ...

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 ...

Somaliland is facing consequential party and presidential elections in 2024. While past elections have been hailed both locally and internationally as a cornerstone of the country’s nascent democracy, ...

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 ...