Ten days after the imperialist aggression against Venezuela—an operation that ended with the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly deputy and First Lady Cilia Flores, as well as ...

Joe Kobuthi chats with Darius Okolla about millennials’ dashed dreams. From the 2010s optimism—youth innovation, democratic hopes—to today’s authoritarian backslide, debt traps, stalled reforms, and ...

The conventional wisdom regarding Kenya’s youth prior to mid-2024 centered on their ostensive political apathy. This apathy, however, is not characterized by laziness or ignorance but by a rational, ...

“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 ...

The call came in at around 4 p.m. “Kobuthi, it’s Brian from primo.” “Oh, sema Brayo, long time, man.” “I’m good, bro.” After the usual pleasantries, there was a long pause. A deep sigh in Brian’s ...

Muthoni Drummer Queen, Kenya’s genre-bending rapper and Blankets & Wine founder, channels the Gen Z uprising in her latest reflections. “We the people shall rise,” she declares, amplifying youth-led ...

They were born into a nascent democracy, weaned on the rhetoric of liberalisation, Structural Adjustment Programs, and globalisation. Theirs was to be the dividend of the new constitution, a ...

Silas Nyanchwani is a writer and journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The government has backtracked on a directive that was, ironically, issued by President William Ruto when he was Kenya’s agriculture minister. In 2009, Ruto banned the export of unprocessed macadamia ...

The year 2025 did not mark the arrival of new global challenges so much as the consolidation of existing ones into a more demanding and less forgiving international environment. Across regions, ...

A few weeks into the protests that were sparked off by the Kenya government’s belligerent persistence in passing the Finance Bill, the government spokesman, Isaac Maura, held a presser in which he ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...