Hajj is an important pillar of Islam and for Muslims the spiritual journey of a lifetime to the holy city of Makkah in Saudi ...

An eye-opening documentary on African literary titan Wole Soyinka wants us to laud his “politics” without ever having Soyinka himself talk about them.

The Ukraine conflict has so far proven to be a very extensive testing ground for a wide array of newly developed systems: ...

When Lynes Manduwa miscarried, nurses in the gynaecology ward at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) ganged up and confronted the husband. “They confronted him for impregnating me [a woman with ...

As the dust seemingly settles from the demographic whirlwind of the Kenyan tax revolt, the scramble to understand the new context as a pathway to prosperity following a recognition of the shifting ...

The history of our region, in particular, tells us that one of two things is supposed to happen during a mass youth uprising such as has been witnessed in Kenya starting from late June: a military-led ...

As a political scientist examining the evolving dynamics between Kenya’s judiciary and political figures, I argue that despite the establishment of Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, designed to safeguard ...

I don’t know why anyone is surprised that Kenya was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to have a seat at the 47-member UN Human Rights Council, given the history of the Council and the UN ...

Watching the anti-finance bill-turned-anti-government protests unfold in Kenya, I could not help but wonder what I could offer from my own experiences of analysing and contributing, however modestly, ...

Over a thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks laid the foundation for what would become the most iconic sporting event in human history: the Olympic Games. Back then, in the revered sanctuary of ...