We are 3 days away from the Gen Z revolution anniversary and close to within a year of the consequential 2027 elections. How are the youths faring so far as a political constituency and a civic ...

It’s Monday, the tail end of spring, with temperatures hitting 24 degrees Celsius in Glasgow, Scotland. The sky is blue. It’s a bank holiday, and Kelvingrove Park is teeming with activities. Kids are ...

Fortunately, life took a while to kill him, but not long enough for us to get used to his absence from our midst. Because Meja Mwangi always looked ahead to Kenya’s future, even when it still ...

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 ...

Floods do not create inequality. They expose it. In recent weeks, images from Nairobi showed residents forming human chains from public service vehicles to help strangers reach higher ground.

There is an oft-circulated photograph of a January 1968 copy of the Daily Nation with the banner headline: GOVT. PLEDGE TO CRUSH CORRUPTION. Above the headline, there is a strap that carries the ...

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 ...

The youth vote. Is There Much of One? Can It Make a Difference? Young voters are often called a “sleeping giant,” and even then, they are not a monolith. Allans Ademba and Sophie Mugure speak to The ...

It is a country largely overlooked by Western media. Yet, Mozambique is a place of extremes like few others. Home to a proliferation of mega-projects by major oil and gas companies, it is also the ...

“Who asked you to say that?” the spokesmen were asked. “Who is behind you?” To this question came the reply: “Piny Owacho.” (The Country Says.) —Oginga Odinga, Not Yet Uhuru If we put down The Prince ...

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

Jewish plans in the 1900s to create a homeland in the highlands of East Africa came to nothing. If they had gone ahead, the Holocaust may never have happened. The state of Israel may never have been ...