The early twenty-first century is a time of monsters in the Global South. What do these monsters look like? Let me begin with those at work closest to home, namely in post-apartheid South Africa, ...

There is a silent population inside Kenya’s correctional facilities that rarely enters public debate, penal policy discourse, or the national imagination. They appear in no crime statistics, are ...

In November 2020, a war erupted in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. Six hundred thousand to a million civilian lives are estimated to have been lost. Amongst the many war crimes and crimes against ...

As I sat there listening to a friend who owns a small business, I wondered whether there are different tax regimes in Kenya depending on what form of commercial activity one undertakes. Despite ...

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 ...

“It is not from the benevolence (kindness) of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” – Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature ...

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 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 ...

Once conquered and divided by Western empires, Africa now faces a more sophisticated challenge. In the modern world, the recolonisation of the African continent is not accomplished with ships and ...

A report by the Presidential Taskforce on the Review of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) released on 29th September 2021. The PPA Taskforce was appointed by HE President Uhuru Kenyatta on 29th March ...