The paradox of press freedom in Rwanda is that despite the advent of alternative media, younger journalists are more controlled than their older counterparts. “Today’s generation? Yeah, they’re ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

Ol Kalou, Nyandarua County. Thursday, July 16, 2026. 1:58 in the afternoon. A police vehicle sits motionless outside a polling station, surrounded not by officers but by residents. Uniformed police ...

Sometime this past week, an Iranian parliamentary official told a Lebanese television channel that Tehran had received an invitation to join the Mecca Accord. No signature, no letterhead, no ...

Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British ...

Physical threats and digital disinformation are shifting the stakes for human rights defenders, as the fight for justice is redefined. How are they navigating the old and emerging threats, and what ...

Of Heroes and Hero Worship? Some Musings on the First Chapter of ‘The Big Conservation Lie’ by John Mbaria and Mordecai Ogada ...

A 30-page leaked document dated September 2018 by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation on land and the national question in South Africa.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...