On the first anniversary of the protests against the Finance Bill 2024 and the storming of Parliament, we cannot help being struck by the reality that Kenya was at this same point 30 years ago. Thirty ...

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 ...

It has been a year since a generation of Kenyans, now dubbed “Gen Z”, shook the political foundations of this country to their core. The government met what had initially begun as a rallying cry to ...

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 ...

On June 25, 2024, Kenya turned a page in its history. What began as a protest against a controversial tax bill quickly escalated into something far more powerful—and tragic. Fueled by frustration and ...

The Maandamano of June 2024 reminded us that resistance is not just what happens in the streets. It is also what happens in the clinics, in courtrooms, in code, in verse, and in the conviction of ...

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 ...

On 19 May 2025, at about 2:30 a.m., I and two Kenyan comrades, Hussein Khalid and Hanifa Farsafi disembarked from a Kenya Airways flight that had landed at Julius Nyerere International Airport from ...

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 ...

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 ...