The Ukraine conflict has so far proven to be a very extensive testing ground for a wide array of newly developed systems: satellite-based electronic and signal warfare, cheap glide bombs, ...

For African nations, the success of their Olympians offers an opportunity not just to inspire a continent but to drive ...

Coupled with a military not inclined to political experiments, Kenya’s lengthy history of civic-based activism has helped the ...

Just because we have had boarding schools since the introduction of Western education is not a reason to keep them regardless ...

If the US and Israel can unilaterally decide who lives or who dies in this world, and suffer no sanctions, then we are truly ...

In Michael Neocosmos’ excellent book, Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics, the author presents three expressions of universal humanism across time and space. These ...

“What then were we to do as writers?” Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe asks in his memoir There Was a Country, a personal recount of the Biafran war. What were the creatives to do – the writers, ...

The Israeli-US genocide in Palestine has re-focused global attention on colonialism and its centrality to capitalism. And it has shown peoples’ need to live free of violence in a state safe from ...

Integrating refugees and asylum seekers into host communities remains a major challenge for Kenya despite previous attempts, especially for those refugees living in camps. Focussing solely on refugees ...

If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences Professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse ...

In September 2014, the United Nations began a global solidarity initiative to bring awareness to gender inequality. This campaign was spearheaded after actress Emma Watson addressed a session of the ...

The Presidential Taskforce Report observed religious organisations’ lack of transparency and accountability and consequently assumed a gap in Kenya’s regulatory framework for religious operatives. It ...