Geothermal development in Kenya is widely welcomed as green, clean and good for the country. But behind the glowing publicity is a hidden story of forced relocation, human rights abuses, land loss, ...

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 ...

In June 2026, Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly passed a law giving the state new powers to license and monitor religious worship. Weeks later, Captain Ibrahim Traore told Burkinabe ...

“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 ...

Kenya is in political angst. Public confidence is at an all-time low. Political violence is spreading. Youth frustration is growing. Those entrusted with leadership are detached from the daily ...

“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 ...

We live in a country in which white domination of black people is enforced with the use of teargas, the rubber bullet and buckshot during the day, and by hand grenades and petrol bombs, kidnappings ...

Oyugi Abednego Ochillo is a writer based in Nairobi, Kenya.

“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 ...

The middle classes of Africa are often idealized as spearheads of democratization and opponents of corrupt regimes. But what does the research actually say? Antje Daniel is substitute professor at the ...

Somaliland’s 2017 elections, which were generally hailed as successful, have prompted some to wonder whether the democracy model used in this self-declared independent state could be exported to ...

The streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District are heavy with the smell of tear gas. It is July 11, 2024, and the youth are protesting against corruption and poor governance, the tail end of the ...