Muthoni Drummer Queen, Kenya’s genre-bending rapper and Blankets & Wine founder, channels the Gen Z uprising in her latest reflections. “We the people shall rise,” she declares, amplifying youth-led ...

I was born at 6 a.m. Not metaphorically. Literally. I have no memory of it, but I try to picture it: Nairobi not yet loud, Parklands hanging between darkness and noise, the kind of light that doesn’t ...

I am from the first generation, I will be forty-five years old in August this year. I was born and raised in Nairobi, with what I now think of as privilege lite. Enough access to feel protected, not ...

Kenyan millennials have become a generation in limbo: the defining cohort of a betrayed promise. This edition asks with ...

In signing the 2021 Defence Agreement with the UK, Kenya lost an opportunity to put an end to the impunity with which BATUK soldiers have been involved in abuses against Kenyans. Dr. Owiso Owiso is an ...

I am thirty-seven years old, childless by circumstance and by choice. I’m still learning how to name it. I live in a small rural town where the road thins into red dust and silence arrives before ...

Born into a nascent democracy and weaned on the rhetoric of liberalisation, Structural Adjustment Programs, and globalisation. theirs was to be the dividend of the new constitution, a generation ...

July 5, 2025. I get a call from my colleague, Eve. “Ty, please come to the venue right now”. This was strange as I wasn’t supposed to show up until two hours later. She, however, sounded very worried, ...

They were born into a nascent democracy, weaned on the rhetoric of liberalisation, Structural Adjustment Programs, and globalisation. Theirs was to be the dividend of the new constitution, a ...

Silas Nyanchwani is a writer and journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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.