In this edition, we seek to explore the legal, social, cultural, and personal frameworks that shape how, where, and when an artist feels freest to create and produce. We explore the themes that shape ...

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, ...

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 ...

Artistic freedom and expression has long been shaped and constrained by many factors, including power, economic hierarchies, and class. In Africa, the right to create and distribute art without ...

Six months after the kidnapping of Kizza Besigye from Kenya, Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire, who are prominent Kenyan and Ugandan human rights activists respectively, were abducted in Dar es ...

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My concerns with international flights are usually mundane things like making sure my Swiss Army knife is not in my carry-on luggage. Do I have anything in my pocket that I might have to part with at ...

Philani A Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born creative whose artistic output spans literature, theatre and film.

In our previous article, we highlighted the key challenges facing Kenya’s electoral integrity that are posed by the increased digitisation of election systems and the electioneering process. From ...

More than a century ago, a brash and mostly racist decision created a small tin shack town in the middle of a swamp. Then the town became unstoppable. The first men and women who landed in Nairobi ...

No place in Kenya has been more affected by brutal curfews, lockdowns, and policing of bodies than northern Kenya. While state-sanctioned violence has been a central feature of life in northern Kenya ...

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East should actually be understood as a new stage in the long-standing crisis of American constitutionalism. The mounting chaos around how American President Trump is ...