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 ...

In the coastal, Indian state of Goa with no end of charismatic churches, the Mae de Deus Church in Saligao, Bardez, is an arresting sight. The neo-gothic, quaintly ribbed, avant-garde design is more ...

After three and a half weeks in South Africa and Zimbabwe, returning to the United States feels like stepping out of a vivid, sun-soaked world into a cold landscape of unrelenting gloom, as if the ...

The meaning and character of the 2026 Uganda general election campaigns began to emerge towards the middle of November, and when the caning of opposition supporters at rallies began, a screen-refresh ...

Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary Frantz ...

The US invasion of Venezuela and the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro Moros this weekend doesn’t come as a surprise, but is no less shocking. American military forces have been building in the ...

Ten years ago, you telephoned informing me that you were launching a book entitled Kenya@50: Trends, Identities and the Politics of Belonging. The book was interrogating Kenya after 50 years of the ...

One day in 2018, I walked into Huduma Centre at the General Post Office in Nairobi for some government service. When I handed over my identity card, the attendant looked at it and raised his eyebrows ...