Opinion

Nairobi, Kenya. How a senator’s attempt to display tech expertise instead revealed a glaring knowledge gap and the familiar problem of performative dominance masquerading as oversight. At a recent Senate …

In the sun-scorched expanses of Northern Kenya, where rugged acacia groves dot the arid plains, the Somali giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) is more than an animal. It is heritage. Named …

I am no constitutional scholar, no embedded correspondent dodging checkpoints in the Sahel, nor a veteran of Kenya’s endless tribal trenches. I am simply an observer of empires in decay: …

U.S. President Donald Trump wants you to believe he’s preparing to save Nigeria’s Christians from “mass slaughter.” In a flurry of Truth Social posts over the weekend, Trump declared that …

Imagine a Kenya where tribe no longer decides who eats and who starves, where the ballot is not a weapon of exclusion but a covenant of belonging. A Kenya where …

In one eventful week, Kenya witnessed two seemingly unrelated stories that together reveal a deeper truth about ownership, stewardship, and our evolving relationship with nature and nationhood. At State House, …

Just days after Mashujaa Day on October 20—a holiday once called Kenyatta Day, self-styled to crown Jomo Kenyatta as the face of uhuru but later reclaimed to honor Kenya’s true …

Nairobi, Kenya. A Market’s Frenetic Pulse In the frenetic pulse of Gikomba Market, where vendors’ shouts mingle with the aroma of fresh sukuma wiki and the haze of diesel fumes, …

From Tehran to Ramallah, from Dodoma to Nairobi: history has shown that some leaders are not mourned quietly. Their funerals become movements of the heart: raw, chaotic, and unstoppable. Some …

In Kenya’s grand theatre of governance, reform always enters with applause, and exits under siege. The latest act stars the Treasury’s e-procurement directive, a policy meant to seal the holes …