The year 2025 did not mark the arrival of new global challenges so much as the consolidation of existing ones into a more demanding and less forgiving international environment. Across regions, ...

The much-vaunted “National” schools in Kenya are distinguished by the fact that they weren’t created to educate. For us to fully understand this, we need to closely examine our history as a society, ...

The political class operates within a theatre of performance, prioritising image over substance. Like the recurring, hollow “launches” of stalled infrastructure, where officials pose before ...

Kenya’s education crisis, marked by a startling decline in student retention under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), is not merely a bureaucratic failure; it is a symptom of a ruling class ...

Every day, Grace* sits in people’s homes and asks them questions that range from the odd to the intrusive. What type of toilet do you use? What is your roof made of? Do you own a radio? She helps the ...

The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

In April of 2023, two factions of the Sudanese armed forces, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), began attacking each other in the capital city of Khartoum ...

Micere Githae Mugo is undoubtedly one of Africa’s foremost poets of distinction. Her iconic status as an activist, scholar and creative artist spans the colonial and post-independence era of Kenya’s ...

The last quarter of 2025 jolted Kenya’s political landscape like no other; Raila Odinga, arguably Kenya’s most visible politician in the last three decades, joined his ancestors on the morning of ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had guests from a neighbouring East African country that had just gone through a bruising presidential electioneering campaign period. They couldn’t fail to notice that even ...

At the reception area of Anniversary Towers, the headquarters of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the body tasked with organising elections in Kenya, I deliver a letter ...

An estimated hundred+ million euros of EU taxpayers’ money, intended to support democratic elections in five African countries, has instead strengthened autocratic and corrupt leaders in these ...