Millennials have their versions of lost innocence: 2007 and 2017, the seismic years of post-election violence. And now, watching you Gen Zs, I see that same flicker of dawning realization in your eyes ...

Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of ...

THE DISILLUSIONED AND THE DISCONTENTED: Will the ‘Born-80s’ generation finally rescue Kenya?

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s decolonial writings are a brave and persistent attempt to recover African histories, voices, and futures.

Time has distilled the corruptible from the incorruptible. This distillation has hurt. Trust has been ruined and, with time, built. The magic of time has opened us to deeper truths.

Afandi Bande is a political economy thinker exploring the intersection of governance and economic development. Her work interrogates how power, institutions, and policy choices enable—or hinder—human ...

Demas Kiprono is Deputy Executive Director – ICJ Kenya.

Departing from the spirit of the 2010 Constitution that was designed to actively bring about significant social change, lawmakers have resorted to passings laws that seek to suppress public criticism ...

The intellect, integrity, voice and humanity of Pheroze Nowrojee illustrate what perfection, dignity, commitment, and true goodness in a human being is.

The Mau Mau and Gen Z movements share similarities in the youthfulness of their membership and the decentralised nature of their operations. However, the Gen Z movement is a new, more inclusive, broad ...

The troubles of Kenya are the howl of ghosts, distant and recent, forgotten voices that have coalesced to a thundering.

Kabubu Mutua grew up in Machakos county, Kenya. His short story, ‘Small Mercies’, was longlisted for the 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prize. It was later published in The Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem ...