Elections ordinarily serve two main purposes. One, they facilitate the peaceful change of leaders or the renewal of the mandate of incumbents, which is necessary for their legitimacy regardless of the ...

A 2019 survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

Editor’s note: Gen Tsadkan Gebretensae is a key member of the Tigrayan Defence Forces Command and widely regarded as one of Africa’s best military thinkers and strategists. He was a former top ...

The European Union Timber Regulation of 2013 has proved ineffectual and it is still easy to ship illegally harvested teak, “the king of woods”, from South Sudan to Europe via India. Romy van der Burgh ...

In this blog post, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko introduces a recently published, open access special issue in The BMJ on reparations and global health. In it, she argues that if the 19th century was the ...

When ambulances arrived to transport to hospital a group of soldiers that had been wounded in a fierce battle between Puntland troops and ISIS, Colonel Mukhtar Ahmed Farah, alias Gagale, a ...

Living in Nairobi, one of my guilty pleasures is looking through expat guides and tour books on Kenya. I am definitely not the target audience, but I pick up Xpat Magazine whenever I’m in the Karen ...

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 ...

I want to tell you about a book that made me deeply uncomfortable, not because it was difficult to read, but because it was easy. I kept expecting the analysis to feel dated, to hit a page where I ...

It is said that knowledge is a curse, but my knowledge of the dramatic arts was the last thing I ever expected to manifest this truth, out of all my skills. For those of us Kenyans who know how to ...

Amidst Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...

For the people of Northern Kenya, the center-periphery dichotomy and its attendant consequences is not a mere framework but rather a lived reality that is burned into their collective consciousness.