“The Church must not move so close to the state, because you can get burned. The state is like fire. But the Church must also not stay very far from it, because you might feel a lot of cold.” That ...

“Between religion and my black skin there shall be a sky’s distance until the day I hear the call to atonement.”-Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea I feel like a fraud writing about religion. I ...

“Between religion and my black skin there shall be a sky’s distance until the day I hear the call to atonement.”-Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea I feel like a fraud writing about religion. I ...

Religion has never been peripheral to Kenyan politics. Churches have provided welfare, organized communities and challenged governments; they have also offered political leaders networks of influence ...

Since the “Occupy Churches” mobilisations of 2024, religious institutions across Kenya have come under intensified public scrutiny, not merely over doctrine, but over power, money, and accountability.

In 2024, a wave of youth-led protests in Kenya, which organizers and commentators came to call “Occupy Churches”, directed itself not at the state but at the country’s most visible religious ...

What does faith have to do with identity? This is what I asked when I was invited to give a keynote lecture on 18 September 2025 at a workshop held at the Centre for Interfaith Studies in Africa at ...

What does faith have to do with identity? This is what I asked when I was invited to give a keynote lecture on 18 September 2025 at a workshop held at the Centre for Interfaith Studies in Africa at ...

For a younger generation in particular, cynicism about institutional religion has moved beyond the familiar woke labels of the 2010s. Rather, they find it difficult to relate to a religion that has ...

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 ...

Faith Kasina is the coordinator of Kayole Community Justice Centre. Through this organisation, she aims to promote social justice in informal settlements through community engagement and the use of ...

At 11 pm on Thursday, 20 th October 2011, I turn the last page of Coconut by Kopano Matlwa, and I know that I’m not going back to church again. I don’t know what that means at that moment, having been ...