In this first part of the Project Profile investigation into the use of biometrics in the humanitarian sector in Kenya, Farrah Budhul Uleh narrates how famine and desperation led him and his family to ...

In this series, we glean into our community of writers to help us understand the development of the New Native. Darius Okolla and Akal Mohan locate the emergent Native within the 2024 protests, while ...

A children’s home in Kajiado County was supposed to be a place of safety. Instead, Africa Uncensored has uncovered deeply disturbing allegations of repeated sexual abuse and the disturbing questions ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s decision to turn to abduction, atrocity, and massacre now threatens the political pre-eminence of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and could rewrite the rules about how the African ...

Fifty years ago this April, Dr Johnstone Muthiora, who, barely six months earlier, had taken on one of the most powerful men in Kenya at the ballot box and won, died mysteriously. His death, coming as ...

The Kenyan politician is to be venerated at all costs, in all situations. When you meet him, have no nerves, be his political pawn. Kiss his red-bottomed Christian Louboutin shoes if you can. Isn’t he ...

We first heard of Alice at a press conference on 19 January 1987, given by Yoweri Museveni, the man then relatively new to the Ugandan presidency. We’d been summoned to State Lodge in Mbale, at the ...

In the past decade, something profound, beyond the ken of mere statistics, has stirred in the life of the Kenyan Native. The three archetypes who have long presided over the Kenyan question—the Ethnic ...

It’s Monday, the tail end of spring, with temperatures hitting 24 degrees Celsius in Glasgow, Scotland. The sky is blue. It’s a bank holiday, and Kelvingrove Park is teeming with activities. Kids are ...

Fortunately, life took a while to kill him, but not long enough for us to get used to his absence from our midst. Because Meja Mwangi always looked ahead to Kenya’s future, even when it still ...

Floods do not create inequality. They expose it. In recent weeks, images from Nairobi showed residents forming human chains from public service vehicles to help strangers reach higher ground.

We are 3 days away from the Gen Z revolution anniversary and close to within a year of the consequential 2027 elections. How are the youths faring so far as a political constituency and a civic ...