The Ukraine conflict has so far proven to be a very extensive testing ground for a wide array of newly developed systems: satellite-based electronic and signal warfare, cheap glide bombs, ...

For African nations, the success of their Olympians offers an opportunity not just to inspire a continent but to drive ...

If the US and Israel can unilaterally decide who lives or who dies in this world, and suffer no sanctions, then we are truly ...

In Michael Neocosmos’ excellent book, Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics, the author presents three expressions of universal humanism across time and space. These ...

“What then were we to do as writers?” Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe asks in his memoir There Was a Country, a personal recount of the Biafran war. What were the creatives to do – the writers, ...

If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences Professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse ...

In Martin Scorsese’s film The Departed, there’s a scene in which a police recruit is asked, “Do you want to be a cop, or do you want to appear to be a cop?” At the start of September, several notable ...

On Friday the 6 th of September 2024, Kenyans woke up to the distressing news that at least 17 pupils of Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni, Nyeri County, had lost their lives through a dormitory ...

Coupled with a military not inclined to political experiments, Kenya’s lengthy history of civic-based activism has helped the ...

Integrating refugees and asylum seekers into host communities remains a major challenge for Kenya despite previous attempts, especially for those refugees living in camps. Focussing solely on refugees ...