Investopedia defines a war economy as “an economy of a country at war”. The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crisis, the Tigray crisis in Ethiopia, the acts of terrorism in Mozambique following ...

One of the key narratives shaping Kenya’s 2022 general elections was the “ Hustler vs. Dynasty ” debate championed by the Kenya Kwanza coalition, which ultimately secured the presidential victory. In ...

In this episode, we converse with Prof. Maria Nzomo about what Gen Z misses by bypassing formal institutions, and that achieving policy leverage is not only through protests, but also through formal ...

I cherish two distinct memories of veteran Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The first memory goes back to the early 2000s (I was 11 years old) when I stumbled on a copy of A Grain of Wheat, Ngũgĩ’s ...

The changing narratives of the National Police Service (NPS) – within a matter of hours – concerning the death in police custody of father, husband and teacher Albert Omondi Ojwang took me back to ...

To fully understand the gist of Trump’s tour of the Middle East, and the things that the American president reiterated many times, one has to look at the entire packaging of the tour, the president’s ...

The Kenya Kwanza regime ascended to power on the promise of ending extrajudicial killings, police abductions, and state-sanctioned torture. However, a review of the regime’s first 1,000 days in office ...

The current political moment is forcing many spaces where power is exercised and visualized to reckon with the Gen Z revolution. And as Prof. Karuti Kanyinga clarifies, in this interim window, some ...