“Between religion and my black skin there shall be a sky’s distance until the day I hear the call to atonement.”-Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea I feel like a fraud writing about religion. I ...
Oyugi Abednego Ochillo is a writer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
In June 2026, Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly passed a law giving the state new powers to license and monitor religious worship. Weeks later, Captain Ibrahim Traore told Burkinabe ...
“The Church must not move so close to the state, because you can get burned. The state is like fire. But the Church must also not stay very far from it, because you might feel a lot of cold.” That ...
“Between religion and my black skin there shall be a sky’s distance until the day I hear the call to atonement.”-Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea I feel like a fraud writing about religion. I ...
For a younger generation in particular, cynicism about institutional religion has moved beyond the familiar woke labels of the 2010s. Rather, they find it difficult to relate to a religion that has ...
Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...
It was the women of that time that intrigued me most and I was watching their lives with the impatient envy of a child. I wanted to grow up and wear those cat-eye glasses and cute kitten heels, burn ...
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land (in Kenya) presented to President Mwai Kibaki June 2004. Companies, Road By-Passes, Road Reserves, ...
In 2016, AMU Power Company was granted plans to build East Africa’s first ever coal power plant as part of the mega-infrastructure project known as The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport ...
From politics to law, environment, to social life, Kenyans have had quite a fruitful half-year. What should we keep an eye on? What should we measure? What should we leverage? The Elephant talks to ...
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 ...
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