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 ...

Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation’s citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had nationwide protests in 2024. But while protests were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...