Walk along Outering Road on any given afternoon and you will behold a spectacle now fully absorbed into Nairobi’s street culture: a matatu barrelling down the road, swaying side to side, a rapper’s ...

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 ...

Horace G. Campbell is the Kwame Nkrumah Chair at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He has published numerous articles on Pan-Africanism over the past forty years. For those who ...

In her writings spanning more than two decades in books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, anthologies and lately on X, Rasna Warah was preoccupied by recurring themes. She was, first and foremost, ...

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Twenty years ago today, John Garang de Mabior boarded a helicopter in western Uganda and never arrived at his destination. Garang had spent the day at Rwakitura; not in Kampala, not in a ministry, but ...

How does one write for The Elephant? One of the values that undergird The Elephant is plurality and diversity of ideas thus anyone can write for The Elephant. The main requirement is for interested ...

A child who went to school beginning in the 1970s, like I did, was fed on a steady dose of “the white man stole our African cultures” as a slogan for explaining all of Kenya’s socio-economic problems.

On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Kenya witnessed the largest street demonstrations in the country’s history. Hundreds of thousands of youthful protestors (mostly Generation Z but with a significant number ...

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 ...

The average Kenyan does not speak in policy. Most policies that are tabled, often, if not always, go over people’s heads, not because people can’t read, but because there is simply too much going on ...

You never step into the same water in a river twice. Not one minute later, not years nor decades later. So, while this moment where we are again called upon to protest a particularly heinous spate of ...