Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama, Author at This is Africa

Education is neither a commercial venture nor a credit facility but a basic need and a public good

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:55:19 +0000

Restoring Utu to Higher Education: A Sovereign Endowment Blueprint to Abolish Kenya’s Student Debt Trap.

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The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two instruments: Legal façades and structural decay in the world, with Indonesia and Kenya as case studies

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:09:20 +0000

The modern autocrat doesn't need a military coup; they just rewrite the law. From Kenya to Indonesia, leaders are legally dismantling democracies by centralizing wealth, weaponizing security, and absorbing political opposition.

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The great ledger correction: Why cancelling the debt of the Global South is restitution, not forgiveness

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:33:40 +0000

Global finance treats sovereign debt as a moral absolute, but a landmark Kenyan lawsuit is challenging this consensus. Rooted in Utu—prioritizing human survival over balance sheets—this legal battle exposes the "inverted ledger" of systemic extraction, threatening to structurally upend the international debt machine.

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Can a people’s Constitution beat a colonial immunity deal? Omtatah takes on the Bretton Woods Agreements Act

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:40:56 +0000

A 1963 statute signed in Kenya's first months of independence is now being tested against the 2010 Constitution's rights framework. The outcome will shape whether African courts can ever hold global lenders accountable.

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IMF’s economic terrorism: Structural adjustment, “Capitalogenic” disease, and the fight to hold the World Bank accountable

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:26:36 +0000

From Washington's Structural Adjustment Programs to a Nairobi courtroom — and a June 25 ruling that shielded the IMF even as it kept the case alive — a decades-long battle to make global lenders answer for their choices is entering a new, decisive phase.

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