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

The economy continues to reflect a complex and ambiguous dynamic with a very vivid lived reality for the citizens. What will it take for Kenya to build proper safeguards that ensure the public finance ...

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 ...

In the months since COP30 concluded in Brazil in November 2025, the architecture of global environmental governance has continued to evolve and, in important respects, to fracture. What was framed as ...

There is a port on the Gulf of Aden that empires keep finding indispensable. Berbera, on the coast of what is today Somaliland, has served for three centuries as a barometer of great-power ambition in ...

Kenya has 40 million adults but only 22 million registered voters, with 8 million abstaining. Voter apathy is evident as few register. The typical voter is disengaged, raising concerns for future ...

This podcast episode examines Kenya’s political landscape, focusing on youth support for Sifuna, the search for new leaders, national aspirations, public sentiment toward current leadership, and ...

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 ...

On 15 December 2025, the cabinet approved two funds proposed in President William Ruto’s 2025 State of the Nation address: the National Infrastructure Fund and the Sovereign Wealth Fund. Together, ...

Kenya is in an argument between its past and its future. Some might say that this argument has been brewing for a long time, and they’d be right. Every day that Kenya has spent as “Kenya” has been a ...