Maxwell Amunga delves into the Mathare Valley community north of Nairobi to take stock of the players, the pains, and the aftermath of a complex problem, laden with costly and desperate solutions that ...
Merika felt freedom and joy while she watched Chinese karate movies. Her soul vanished into the world of the monks training at their bronze gilded temples, the bonsai gardens, the sweeping rice fields ...
In 2019, Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot welcomed me at his home. He had just turned 90. We spoke about his role as editor of the encyclopedic UNESCO project that produced the invaluable volumes of the General ...
Some lives are so full, so luminous, that even in passing, their glow remains, illuminating the paths of those they touched. Professor Bethwell A. Ogot was such a life—a giant in African ...
Watching the Too Early for Birds Tom Mboya edition at the Visa Oshwal auditorium on the last Saturday of January, one thing that stood out was Tom Mboya’s casual greatness. It was possible to trace ...
The past month has witnessed an extraordinary assault on press freedom and the democratic right of journalists to hold the most powerful to account. Those attacks were not waged by rogue State House ...
The past month has witnessed an extraordinary assault on press freedom and the democratic right of journalists to hold the most powerful to account. Those attacks were not waged by rogue State House ...
The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia Northern Area Office (FGAE NAO) is on the verge of closure, leaving thousands in Tigray without vital sexual and reproductive health services. The head of ...
Rasna Warah’s life was intimately woven with the crisis of knowledge in Kenya. She was the voice that remained unsilent in a country that wages war against knowledge and imagination. Rasnah was ...
This issue is about labour organisation, working class struggles and popular protests. 1 It is about the ambivalent role that trade unions play in the organisation of workers and labour struggles as ...
When Elon Musk marked Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed very much like a Nazi salute and was defended by a lobby that claimed to fight anti-Jewish racism, he and his defenders confirmed the ...
President Trump’s suspension of all aid to Uganda is the latest contingency that the country failed to foresee and make provision for. Landslides, drought and famine happen so frequently one would ...