Rows of jars of beans, sorghum, varieties of nightshade and other indigenous seeds sit neatly on wooden shelves in Gilgil’s seed bank awaiting the next planting season. Forty-three-year-old Beatrice ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s decision to turn to abduction, atrocity, and massacre now threatens the political ...

From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and ...

A new story map, Trans-Saharan Route Then and Now, traces this evolution across key nodes — from the Central to the Western and Eastern Trans Sahara Migration Corridor — highlighting how the economic ...

Ten years ago, you telephoned informing me that you were launching a book entitled Kenya@50: Trends, Identities and the Politics of Belonging. The book was interrogating Kenya after 50 years of the ...

It seems inevitable that oil in Turkana will be extracted and turned into money. But who makes sure that the landowners themselves benefit from this wealth? What does “development” really mean in ...

One day in 2018, I walked into Huduma Centre at the General Post Office in Nairobi for some government service. When I handed over my identity card, the attendant looked at it and raised his eyebrows ...

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 ...

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies.

On the evening of 28 May 2025, my elder sister Janet informed me that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o had left us. She thought I needed to know – and she was right: my family knows that I have a decades-old deep ...

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 ...