Over the past month, Kenya’s finance cocktail circuit and the public alike have been set alight by the Kenya Pipeline Corporation (KPC) Initial Public Offer (IPO) – and for good reason. To begin with, ...

On the afternoon of Tuesday, 6 September 2022, at exactly 1:40 p.m., a crowd gathered outside Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Under ordinary circumstances, one would ...

The average Kenyan does not speak in policy. Most policies that are tabled, often, if not always, go over people’s heads, not because people can’t read, but because there is simply too much going on ...

Natasha W. Muhanji is a Kenyan writer and editor. Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming on Brittle Paper, The Kalahari Review.

Many in Kenya are approaching the “fuliza limit” and they are mourning the possibility of what could have been. They question ...

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East should actually be understood as a new stage in the long-standing crisis of American constitutionalism. The mounting chaos around how American President Trump is ...

On January 14, the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) exposed a wide-ranging black-hat image-laundering scheme that implicated government and philanthropic leaders. Among the culprits, ...

Out of a population of more than 36 million, only 22 million Kenyans were registered to vote, and just 14 million actually cast their ballots. Political apathy in Kenya is not a new phenomenon. As ...

Six years after COVID-19, the world is facing another pandemic. It is a little-known disease but very destructive: rhetorical exoticism – mentioning the woes or wonders of some remote place to make a ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci In 1994, I was a fresh, naïve, graduate of a Bachelor’s of Education degree, believing ...

In the coastal, Indian state of Goa with no end of charismatic churches, the Mae de Deus Church in Saligao, Bardez, is an arresting sight. The neo-gothic, quaintly ribbed, avant-garde design is more ...

Elections ordinarily serve two main purposes. One, they facilitate the peaceful change of leaders or the renewal of the mandate of incumbents, which is necessary for their legitimacy regardless of the ...