Kenya: Two Kenyan Women Rebuild Libraries in a Quietly Powerful New Documentary

Two Kenyan women - Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka - set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild neglected libraries in Nairobi. Read more »

Kenya: Street Food in Mombasa - How City Life Shaped the Modern Meal

As Kenya's cities grew, more and more people left their rural homes and subsistence farming systems to go to urban settlements like Mombasa to find work. In the city, meals were… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's 'Night Running' - How a Rural Ritual With Links to Witchcraft Became an Urban Staple

In parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, it is not uncommon to hear of individuals who run naked at night. They cause trouble and instil fear in the neighbourhood. They throw stones… Read more »

Kenya: Managing Conflict Between Baboons and People - What's Worked - and What Hasn't

Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to… Read more »

Africa: News Influencers Are Reshaping the Media - Insights From Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

News creators and influencers have become increasingly important sources of news as more people turn to social media and video networks like Facebook and YouTube to inform… Read more »

Kenya: High-Rise Living in Nairobi's Pipeline Estate Is Stressful - How Men and Women Cope

Within sight of Kenya's main international airport in Nairobi's east, Pipeline residential estate stands out like a sore thumb. Composed almost entirely of tightly packed high-rise… Read more »

Kenya: Raila Odinga Mastered the Art of Political Compromise for the Good of Kenya

One of the markers of Kenyan statesman Raila Odinga was not just his courage in challenging the establishment but his ability to fortify it when circumstances demanded. An example… Read more »

Kenya: Raila Odinga - the Kenyan Statesman Who Championed Competitive Politics and Accountability

Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn't win. Yet he became a statesman of enormous influence, whose political… Read more »

Africa: Cancer Drug Quality in Africa Is a Worry - What We Found in a 4-Country Study

The number of people receiving treatment for cancer has risen dramatically in the last decade in many African countries. For example, 10 years ago in Ethiopia and Kenya, cancer… Read more »

Kenya: Fish Is Good Food and Demand Outstrips Supply in Kenya - How to Produce More and Get It to Market Safely

Fish are a nutritious, affordable protein and source of income to those who catch and sell them. As millions of people in Africa suffer from undernutrition, a lack of vital… Read more »

Kenya: Young Mothers in Kenya Face a Higher Risk of Giving Birth Early - Study Explores Why

Preterm babies are those born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed. The global figure for babies born early was 13.4 million in 2020. But statistics on preterm babies… Read more »

Kenya: Pregnant Teens in Kenya's Low-Income Areas Avoid Health Care Because of Fear and Stigma

"I feared people and feared the doctors because they would probably judge or insult me. So, she (mother) told me no, that should not be the case, and so she offered to take me." Read more »

Kenya: Raila Odinga - the Man Who Changed Kenya Without Ever Ruling It

Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. Read more »

Kenya: Child Malnutrition in Kenya - AI Model Can Forecast Rates Six Months Before They Become Critical

Globally, nearly half of the deaths of children under five years are linked to malnutrition. In Kenya, it's the leading cause of illness and death among children. Read more »

Nigeria: Vaccines and Motherhood - Are AI Generated Health Messages Working in Kenya and Nigeria?

Picture this: an artificial intelligence (AI) system creates a bright, youth-focused social media post for young Kenyans, complete with local slang and the phrase "YOUNG, LIT, AND… Read more »

Kenya: Muslim Ritual Meets Swahili Culture At Kenya's Unique Annual Maulidi Festival

Lamu is a historic Swahili port town on an island off the northern coast of Kenya. Each year it hosts the famous Lamu Maulidi Festival, a sacred Muslim celebration, planned this… Read more »

Kenya: We Created a Support Programme for Schools in Nairobi's Informal Settlements - What We Learned

Access to school is considered to be better for children who live in urban areas than in rural areas in countries such as Kenya. But research shows that this access doesn't… Read more »

Africa: Should African Countries Lower the Voting Age to 16?

The UK is moving to lower its voting age from 18 to 16. The new legislation takes effect ahead of the country's next general election in 2029, and is aimed at boosting its… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Has Introduced New Banking Policies. an Economist Weighs Them Up

The Central Bank of Kenya has made two significant changes in the country's banking sector. The first is to lift a decade-long moratorium on licensing new banks. Second is to raise… Read more »

South Africa: HIV Is On the Rise Among Older Africans, but Care and Research Overlook This Group - Lessons From Kenya and South Africa

For decades, public health efforts across sub-Saharan Africa have focused on HIV prevention, testing and treatment campaigns on children, and women of reproductive age, overlooking… Read more »

Kenya: Christians and the British Empire - How a Church NGO Got Entangled in Colonial Violence in Kenya

In the 1950s, Kenyans fought against colonial control in what came to be known as the Mau Mau rebellion. In response, the British government announced a state of emergency in 1952… Read more »

Nigeria: How Nollywood Films Help Kenyan Housemaids Make Sense of Their Lives

Nollywood, Nigeria's prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's 1950 Kolloa Massacre - Britain Won't Own Up to Its Colonial Violence but Communities Need Closure

In 1950, British forces killed at least 29 civilians in one of the deadliest, but least chronicled, episodes of colonial violence in Kenya. Read more »

Kenya: Extreme Weather Affects Mental Health - What Vulnerable Women in Kenya Told Us

Climatic shocks and environmental changes are increasingly recognised as one of the greatest threats to human health of the 21st century. Extreme weather, such as heatwaves,… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Police Brutality - It Will Take More Than Laws and Public Anger to Change Behaviour

Kenya has once again been reminded of brutality within its police force. Two events in mid-June 2025 pointed to the grave challenge that Kenya must confront to reform the service. Read more »