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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To fully understand the gist of Trump’s tour of the Middle East, and the things that the American president reiterated many times, one has to look at the entire packaging of the tour, the president’s ...

The Kenya Kwanza regime ascended to power on the promise of ending extrajudicial killings, police abductions, and state-sanctioned torture. However, a review of the regime’s first 1,000 days in office ...

Ngũgĩ’s most important contributions were on language. His novels, his essays, and his unyielding belief in the dignity of African languages reshaped world literature. To call him merely a “great ...

The devastating news of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s passing has shaken the literary and academic scene in Africa and beyond. From the massive outpourings of condolences to his family from across Africa and ...

On the evening of 28 May 2025, my elder sister Janet informed me that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o had left us. She thought I needed to know – and she was right: my family knows that I have a decades-old deep ...