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 ...

Fortunately, life took a while to kill him, but not long enough for us to get used to his absence from our midst. Because Meja Mwangi always looked ahead to Kenya’s future, even when it still ...

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 ...

Not known for adhering to any particular lasting strategy, Trump sees each day in the White House as an episode in a reality show in which he seeks an advantage over his rivals, if not to vanquish ...

The conventional wisdom regarding Kenya’s youth prior to mid-2024 centered on their ostensive political apathy. This apathy, however, is not characterized by laziness or ignorance but by a rational, ...

“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 ...

Sometime in 2014, then in my late 20s, I attended a birthday party in a middle-class Nairobi suburb. The host was a young Nairobi millionaire, a wheeler-dealer. The birthday boy was destined to become ...

There is a particular kind of grief that comes from watching your country break the same promises your parents once believed in. For Kenyan millennials – those born between 1981 and 1996 – this grief ...

I am thirty-seven years old, childless by circumstance and by choice. I’m still learning how to name it. I live in a small rural town where the road thins into red dust and silence arrives before ...

In signing the 2021 Defence Agreement with the UK, Kenya lost an opportunity to put an end to the impunity with which BATUK soldiers have been involved in abuses against Kenyans. Dr. Owiso Owiso is an ...

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 ...