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

Sometime last year, just after the June protests, when the city still carried the aftertaste of the deaths that occurred, I ran into a friend in a dim-lit joint in Westlands that I tend to drift into ...

A series of infections during my primary school days saw me return to the local public hospital for medical attention regularly. Over the course of these visits, accompanied by my mother, I observed ...

Much of Kenya’s political language implicitly genders failure as female, imagining it as wearing a female face or inhabiting a female body. Much of Kenya’s political language implicitly genders ...

Kenya is facing its second wave of austerity measures, dictated by international lenders, chiefly the IMF and the World Bank. It is a reality so stark that younger generations of Kenyans have been ...

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 ...

Ouma Elvine Tina is a feminist journalist and storyteller who believes deeply that stories influence how we understand ourselves as a nation and as people.

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in some corner of Africa or its diaspora, people are hunched over their phones watching Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin fight another person over their connections with Western ...

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, ...