When a Kenyan candidate speaks at a Washington organization like the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) or the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the public event is just the ...

Due to the rapid advancements in AI technology, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) formed a technical taskforce in October 2023 to develop the Media Handbook for Reporting on Artificial Intelligence in ...

Kenya’s Gen Z has already achieved what many thought impossible. It forced a sitting government into retreat, disrupted the language of national politics, and demonstrated that a decentralized ...

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 ...

The conversation around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the creative industries is often filled with hype and speculation. Is it a tool for liberation or a threat to livelihoods? Chief Nyamweya, ...

Something important is happening across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Wars that appear local are drawing in actors from increasingly far away. Ports built for commerce acquire military uses.

Kenya is witnessing a wave of change. Long accustomed to preserving the status quo, many have found themselves face-to-face with a new generation of youth who are disenfranchised, unemployed, or ...

Last October, two weeks before Baba died, I was returning to Nairobi after a two-year hiatus. The last time I was home was during the first-year memorial of my sister, Nyangi, who was now the ...

In the weeks leading up to the storming of the Kenyan parliament in June 2024, I noticed a unique element in the type of people who attended the protests; they polled much younger, more enthusiastic, ...

The agreement (called a “Memorandum of Understanding”) signed between the United States and Iran in mid-June needs careful study in order to understand its real implications for the future of the ...

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 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 ...