November 29

• Kenya: An Abortion That Got Rid of Too Much - Part 2

  This is the continued story of Lydiah Kagere, a woman whose illegal abortion resulted in the loss of her uterus. Part 1 describes how the university student endured the procedure.... Read more »

November 28

• Kenya: An Abortion That Got Rid of Too Much

  Lydiah Kagere could not go about her business without glancing back. She imagined that everybody knew her secret and that they were all talking about her. She had lost a part of... Read more »

November 20

• Kenya: Law Aims to Legalize Polygamy

  Kenya is showing mixed reactions to the cabinet's recently approved Marriage Bill 2012. One of its most conversation-generating proposals is to legalize polygamy. Read more »

November 11

• Kenya: 28-Year-Old Woman Aspires to Presidency

  Barack Obama's re-election gave some Kenyans this week a reason to celebrate, seeing the US president whose father was Kenyan as one of their own. But as Obamamania quiets down,... Read more »

November 7

• Africa: Kenyan Photographer Reflects On Obamamania '08

  When Barack Obama won the US election in 2008, there was hope that his foreign policy would boost economic opportunities, not least for Africa, where he traces his Kenyan roots. Read more »

November 6

• Kenya: Babies in a Pouch - a Hopping Success

  A decade ago, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya's largest referral hospital, was dealing with escalating baby mortality rates - 50% of preterm born infants did not survive. Since... Read more »

October 8

• Kenya: No Calls, Please - Big Brother in Kenya Ties Up the Lines

  Trying to call someone in Kenya? There's a fine chance the person you're trying to reach won't pick up. No, not because that someone is busy, but because the government has... Read more »

October 1

• Kenya: Africans Going Dutch - Part 45 - the Most Tolerant Dutchman

  My Dutch friend drives a Japanese car, eats Italian food, drinks more than ten cups of Kenyan coffee a day and goes to Turkey twice a year on holiday. Given this multicultural... Read more »

September 24

• Kenya: Mysterious Mass Graves Awaken Fear and Activism

  Kenyans were shocked this week to learn that two mass graves were reportedly found in the Tana River District. For months, this region in the country's south-east has been the... Read more »

September 10

• Kenya: The Man Who Wants to Kiss a Million

  John Telewa is a man on a mouth-led mission. The Kenyan wants to make it into the Guinness World Records as the man who has kissed the most women in the world. Read more »

• Kenya: Twelve Die in Ethnic Dispute

  A Kenyan gunman killed at least 12 people in a village along the Tana Delta, said Red Cross officials Friday. The attack was an act of revenge in a long-running ethnic dispute over... Read more »

September 7

• Kenya: Photojournalist Youngest Winner of Prestigious Prize

  Envelope-pushing Kenyan photojournalist and activist Boniface Mwangi is one of this year's Prince Claus laureates. The news was announced on 5 September at the Prince Claus... Read more »

August 31

• Kenya: European-African Entrepreneurship Award - the Winner Is...

  The European-African Entrepreneurship Award was held last Saturday in the city of The Hague in the Netherlands. Nine African-European entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for a... Read more »

August 26

• Kenya: Fast Forward - Plastic Poles to Promote the Poor [interview]

  Having grown up in a slum in Nakuru, a town north of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Lorna Rutto knows what it's like to be poor. But the 28-year-old considers herself lucky. Her... Read more »

August 25

• Kenya: Displaced Kenyans Robbed By Camp Management

  Kenyan refugees at a camp 140 kilometres from Nairobi are believed to have been living in extremely harsh conditions between 2009 and 2012. They blame it on a management that is... Read more »

August 13

• Kenya: Fast Forward - Small Loans for Big Gains in Kenya Slum

  When on the very same day that her Nairobi apartment building's caretaker, the watchman and housekeeper all asked for small loans to start up businesses, Daisy Waimiri didn't pull... Read more »

August 9

• Kenya/Botswana: Rudisha Breaks World Record in 800 Metres

  David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya won the men's 800 metres Olympic title here on Thursday in a stunning new world record of 1min 40.91sec. Read more »

August 8

• Kenya: Schoolgirls' Skirts Spark Controversy

  "Why are you dressing a schoolgirl like a nun?" Kenyan Minister of Education Mutula Kilonzo posed this rhetorical question in a series of remarks sparking a national controversy... Read more »

July 31

• Kenya: A Newsletter to Lighten Up Life in Dadaab [interview]

  Every week, six pages' worth of news articles and short works of fiction are published in Somali and shared with residents of camp Dadaab in eastern Kenya. Named for the 500,000... Read more »

July 25

• Kenya: Fast Forward - a Workbook to Make Kenya Right [interview]

  After studying botany in Nairobi and spending time in the US, Eda Esilaba returned in 2007 to a Kenya plagued with post-election violence. She was shocked. And that was despite... Read more »

July 16

• Kenya: Fast Forward - Helping People Rule Their Own Rights [interview]

  Nerea Musita says she comes from a "blessed family", never experiencing poverty and having had the chance to study at universities in the US and the Netherlands. But a good life... Read more »

July 10

• Kenya: Fast Forward - Social Change With a Flash Bulb

  Photographer and social activist Boniface Mwangi may only be 28, but the photos he took during Kenya's 2007 post-election violence have made a name for himself. That name is... Read more »

July 2

• Kenya: Transforming Girls' Lives Through Football

  High rates of leaving school, teen pregnancy, child prostitution and HIV/AIDS make it difficult for a young girl to enjoy her childhood in Kenya's Kilifi County. But now many lives... Read more »

June 29

• Kenya: The Love Protest Turns Activists Into Undertakers

  An estimated 200 demonstrators held up traffic along the streets of Nairobi on Thursday afternoon. The Love Protest, the event may have been called, though many of its participants... Read more »

June 25

• Kenya: What's Becoming of Kenya's Wildlife?

  This week, members of a community living in the Kitengela area outside Nairobi National Park killed six lions after they attacked a number of their goats and sheep. The incident... Read more »