It is a lucky thing to be born into history. When I came to this earth on the 29th of August 1989, Raila Odinga, the scion of Kenya’s first vice president Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, was celebrating three ...

Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation’s citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had nationwide protests in 2024. But while protests were ...

Africa’s post-colonial promise of democratization that began in the 1980s and 1990s with the “second independence” struggles now confronts a defining and painful reckoning. The optimism that ...

The Poisoned Bouquet: How European Giants Exploit African and Latin American Labor to Keep Flowers Cheap ...

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is a Malawian historian, academic, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger. He is the Associate Provost and North Star Distinguished Professor at Case Western ...

In the quiet left by Baba's passing, the country is left reflecting on what he meant, and what this moment means for the ...

The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

This is the second of a two-part series that assesses the historical progress of the Pan-African movement and considers the global political economy, the relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

In many parts of the world where ethnic balance has not been achieved, politics turn violent. Ethiopia is a classic example where a lack of ethnic balance leads to ethnic violence. The Ethiopian ...

Micere Githae Mugo is undoubtedly one of Africa’s foremost poets of distinction. Her iconic status as an activist, scholar and creative artist spans the colonial and post-independence era of Kenya’s ...

Tax incentives are deductions, exclusions, or exemptions from taxes that are due to the government. They are employed as incentives to draw money flows into desired economic sectors or areas, or to ...