It is a lucky thing to be born into history. When I came to this earth on the 29th of August 1989, Raila Odinga, the scion of Kenya’s first vice president Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, was celebrating three ...

Africa’s post-colonial promise of democratization that began in the 1980s and 1990s with the “second independence” struggles now confronts a defining and painful reckoning. The optimism that ...

The Poisoned Bouquet: How European Giants Exploit African and Latin American Labor to Keep Flowers Cheap ...

R.M. Anyona is a global health, governance and financing expert from Kenya. She also hosts "A Certain Amount of Madness" podcast that analyzes social, political and economic issues and their ...

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is a Malawian historian, academic, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger. He is the Associate Provost and North Star Distinguished Professor at Case Western ...

Corruption, however you define it, is so integral to the way human commercial and political affairs play out that all major global developments in its regard have been driven by geopolitical shifts.

In the quiet left by Baba's passing, the country is left reflecting on what he meant, and what this moment means for the ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...

The Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) office is located off Juja road in Nairobi’s Eastlands. It is situated in a single-storeyed building planted right at the edge of Mathare Valley. The building ...

This is the second of a two-part series that assesses the historical progress of the Pan-African movement and considers the global political economy, the relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

In many parts of the world where ethnic balance has not been achieved, politics turn violent. Ethiopia is a classic example where a lack of ethnic balance leads to ethnic violence. The Ethiopian ...