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 ...

In a Uganda long accustomed to provocative social media flurry from Army Chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, two recent developments shocked even the most cynical observers. On the night of 27 June, ...

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 ...

Establishing home both in the legal, communal, and social sense is always an ongoing conversation under the shadow of the state and of history. Dr. Mshai Mwangola talks to Dr. J. K. S. Makokha.

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 ...

Kenya’s post-independence history is marked by numerous instances of high-ranking politicians and politically connected individuals exploiting state power to illegally acquire public land – what land ...

From politics to law, environment, to social life, Kenyans have had quite a fruitful half-year. What should we keep an eye on? What should we measure? What should we leverage? The Elephant talks to ...

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 ...

In 1950s apartheid South Africa, visibility was never neutral. To appear publicly as Black, urban, fashionable, and modern carried political meaning in a society built on racial segregation and ...

The tales told of the origins of colonial Nairobi, formerly Enkare Nyirobi, are awash with references to railways, guns and the Imperial British East Africa Company. Animating them are hunters and ...

A report by the Tanzanian Presidential Commission on Corruption (also known as the Warioba Report) published in December 1996.

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 ...