At the end of 2010, I took a trip to Ethiopia to visit my family. At the time, my parents worked in Bole, the commercial centre of Addis Ababa. Being only 16, my movements were more or less regulated ...

Last October, two weeks before Baba died, I was returning to Nairobi after a two-year hiatus. The last time I was home was during the first-year memorial of my sister, Nyangi, who was now the ...

Six months after the kidnapping of Kizza Besigye from Kenya, Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire, who are prominent Kenyan and Ugandan human rights activists respectively, were abducted in Dar es ...

Kenya is witnessing a wave of change. Long accustomed to preserving the status quo, many have found themselves face-to-face with a new generation of youth who are disenfranchised, unemployed, or ...

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 ...

In this edition, we seek to explore the legal, social, cultural, and personal frameworks that shape how, where, and when an artist feels freest to create and produce. We explore the themes that shape ...

The conversation around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the creative industries is often filled with hype and speculation. Is it a tool for liberation or a threat to livelihoods? Chief Nyamweya, ...

Artistic freedom and expression has long been shaped and constrained by many factors, including power, economic hierarchies, and class. In Africa, the right to create and distribute art without ...

My concerns with international flights are usually mundane things like making sure my Swiss Army knife is not in my carry-on luggage. Do I have anything in my pocket that I might have to part with at ...

Posted in Analysis Brazil’s Racket Society Benjamin Fogel October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 ...

In our previous article, we highlighted the key challenges facing Kenya’s electoral integrity that are posed by the increased digitisation of election systems and the electioneering process. From ...

Quite often, Kenyan politicians refer to themselves as “the political class”. Nevertheless, the idea of “class” is attributed to Karl Marx. With regard to Marxian economic theory, R.J. Rummel explains ...