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.

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

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 ...

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, ...

In Michael Neocosmos’ excellent book, Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics, the author presents three expressions of universal humanism across time and space. These ...

“What then were we to do as writers?” Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe asks in his memoir There Was a Country, a personal recount of the Biafran war. What were the creatives to do – the writers, ...