In the quiet left by Baba’s passing, the country is left reflecting on what he meant, and what this moment means for the country. Raila Odinga exited the stage as he lived: bold, defiant, and ...

Raila Amolo Odinga’s life was a stirring journey—a tapestry woven from courage, resilience, and an unyielding belief in a better Kenya. To know Odinga was to witness a man who stood at the heart of ...

Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. A leader who repeatedly ran for president, he never won – in part due to the 2007 ...

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Late last year, the world was alerted to the disturbing news that Russia was recruiting hundreds of young African women, aged 18–22, to manufacture drones in a military-industrial compound 1,000 km ...

William Moige is a journalist at East Africa’s renowned media house, Africa Uncensored. Driven by a “deep commitment to uncovering truth and amplifying unheard voices,” as he describes it, Moige ...

“At times it is folly to hasten, at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”—Ovid “All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or ...

Rasna Warah is a Kenyan writer and journalist. In a previous incarnation, she was an editor at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She has published two books on Somalia – War ...

If Thomas Joseph (TJ) Mboya was the young man that Kenya wanted to forget, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga is the grand old man who Kenya can never forget. Jaramogi and Tom Mboya were both were nationalists of ...

At the crack of dawn, roughly between 5a.m and 7a.m, the “Great Trek” in Nairobi begins. Hordes of security guards, domestic workers, office cleaners, factory workers, vegetable hawkers, office ...

Set on a 20-acre piece of land in the Athi plains, the Mavuno “Hill City” Church (a Kiswahili word meaning harvest) looks like anything but a church: its mega dome tent resembles one huge dance hall – ...

The implementation of the third-generation ID, also known as the Maisha Namba, has faced criticism for not adequately addressing the identification and registration of historically marginalised groups ...