The students’ main grievance, that they were being trained for jobs that did not exist, highlighted a growing disconnect between academic programmes and labour market realities. These economic issues ...

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 ...

Natasha W. Muhanji is a Kenyan writer and editor. Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming on Brittle Paper, The Kalahari Review.

Not known for adhering to any particular lasting strategy, Trump sees each day in the White House as an episode in a reality show in which he seeks an advantage over his rivals, if not to vanquish ...

Out of a population of more than 36 million, only 22 million Kenyans were registered to vote, and just 14 million actually cast their ballots. Political apathy in Kenya is not a new phenomenon. As ...

Sometime last year, just after the June protests, when the city still carried the aftertaste of the deaths that occurred, I ran into a friend in a dim-lit joint in Westlands that I tend to drift into ...

Kenya is facing its second wave of austerity measures, dictated by international lenders, chiefly the IMF and the World Bank. It is a reality so stark that younger generations of Kenyans have been ...

On the afternoon of Tuesday, 6 September 2022, at exactly 1:40 p.m., a crowd gathered outside Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Under ordinary circumstances, one would ...

The Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) office is located off Juja road in Nairobi’s Eastlands. It is situated in a single-storeyed building planted right at the edge of Mathare Valley. The building ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...

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.

The government has backtracked on a directive that was, ironically, issued by President William Ruto when he was Kenya’s agriculture minister. In 2009, Ruto banned the export of unprocessed macadamia ...