Now, more than a decade after leaving high school, we have made it a routine to frequently meet in a movie store, almost every evening. We are weary and jarred by the despair of our current situations ...

Many in Kenya are approaching the “fuliza limit” and they are mourning the possibility of what could have been. They question ...

Sometime last year, just after the June protests, when the city still carried the aftertaste of the deaths that occurred, I ran into a friend in a dim-lit joint in Westlands that I tend to drift into ...

Much of Kenya’s political language implicitly genders failure as female, imagining it as wearing a female face or inhabiting a female body. Much of Kenya’s political language implicitly genders ...

A series of infections during my primary school days saw me return to the local public hospital for medical attention regularly. Over the course of these visits, accompanied by my mother, I observed ...

The economy continues to reflect a complex and ambiguous dynamic with a very vivid lived reality for the citizens. What will it take for Kenya to build proper safeguards that ensure the public finance ...

Kenya is facing its second wave of austerity measures, dictated by international lenders, chiefly the IMF and the World Bank. It is a reality so stark that younger generations of Kenyans have been ...

Ouma Elvine Tina is a feminist journalist and storyteller who believes deeply that stories influence how we understand ourselves as a nation and as people.

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 ...

David Ndii’s recent decision to publicly renounce Kikuyu ethnicity and adopt a “Jaluo” one may spark a long overdue debate about the nature of ethnicity in Kenya and in Africa. For many people, both ...

The call came at precisely 3.00pm. My interlocutor could have easily ignored the vibrating mobile phone that was swivelling on the table, but on second thoughts, he chose to pick up the Nokia feature ...