May 16, 2022
Kenya: #JusticeForSheila Highlights the Precarious Lives of Queer People in Kenya
Kenya is one of 32 countries in Africa that criminalise homosexuality. People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) are frequently stigmatised,… Read more »
Kenya: How Judiciary Can Break the Cycle of Electoral Violence
Kenya is no stranger to highly contested elections, including those pervaded by political and ethnic violence. Read more »
May 15, 2022
Kenya: Big Infrastructure Projects On the Continent Should Work for Everyone
Big infrastructure projects should be based on the needs of people and communities. Often, they are criticised for benefiting the wealthy only. These projects reflect specific… Read more »
May 14, 2022
Kenya: Kenya's Fuel Crisis - How the Country's Subsidy System Works
Oil is an essential commodity for Kenya's transport and industrial production, electricity generation and water provision. In 2008, as the world grappled with high oil prices,… Read more »
May 01, 2022
Kenya: How Changing Livestock Markets Could Reduce Conflict
Over nine million Kenyans are pastoralists out of a total population of 50 million. Together they hold livestock worth over US$1 billion. Livestock is their source of food, health,… Read more »
April 30, 2022
Kenya: Kibaki's Capitalist Outlook On Education Brought Mixed Results
Emilio Mwai Kibaki, retired third president of independent Kenya who has died , had a rich and multifaceted legacy as a long serving public official. Read more »
May 01, 2022
Kenya: The Red Flags to Watch for in Kenya's Election
Kenya's National Cohesion and Integration Commission recently listed 23 counties that are considered potential violence hotspots ahead of the country's August 2022 elections. Read more »
April 26, 2022
Kenya: Changes in Sub-Saharan Maize Trade Spell Potential Trouble for Kenya
Maize production in some of the sub-Saharan African countries that dominated maize supplies during the 2021/22 marketing year is expected to be lower this coming season. This will… Read more »
Kenya: Kibaki's Kenya Education Legacy - Well-Intentioned, With Disastrous Consequences
Kenya's former president Mwai Kibaki, who died last week, was widely praised for his economic transformation of Kenya, first as finance minister from 1969 to 1982 and then as the… Read more »
April 22, 2022
Kenya: Mwai Kibaki - President Who Squandered the Opportunity to Fix Kenya
Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki, who has died at the age of 90, was born on November 15, 1931 in Othaya, Nyeri, in the central highlands of Kenya. He spent a lifetime in public service. Read more »
April 20, 2022
Kenya: Latest Approach to Kenya Election Hate Speech Raises More Questions Than Answers
The election campaign period in Kenya is typically hectic for the statutory body that keeps tabs on inflammatory speech on political platforms and the media. This is hardly… Read more »
April 18, 2022
Africa: As Covid Hit Kenya and South Africa, Race and Class Fears Were Amplified On Twitter
It's common in both Kenya and South Africa for there to be everyday conversations about inequalities in power relations and between "races", classes and ethnic groups. Kenya, in… Read more »
November 22, 2021
Kenya: A Fossil Cranium From Kenya Tells the Story of an Extinct Elephant Species
Some 4.5 million years ago, during the early Pliocene epoch, Kenya's Lake Turkana looked very different than it does today. Grasslands and open woodlands were spreading in cooler,… Read more »
October 19, 2020
Africa: Invasive Mosquito Species Could Bring More Malaria to Africa's Urban Areas
A species of mosquito that can carry malaria - known as Anopheles stephensi - has invaded eastern Africa and is quickly moving across the region. Moina Spooner, from The… Read more »