We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...
As an outlier in Kenya’s political power matrix, Ruto was elbowed out by the establishment. But he has somersaulted back...
The Kenyan government has thrown a security cordon over a part of the city of Nairobi most populated by the Somali. Why? Because al Shabaab operates...
Last week the organization I work for – the Consumers Protection Association – published a joint report with Oxfam that shows how a health public–private partnership...
Money transfer operators have been siphoning money from African migrant workers and diasporans with little comeback for years – but Western Union and Moneygram, who dominate...
We are taught to believe that our modern lifestyle – which thrives on egoism, competition and inequality – is an improvement on the past. But considering...
The contradiction of Kenya’s independence is that those with the money to buy a lot of land were usually those who had collaborated with colonialism. How...
Africans are losing $1.8-billion a year due to high fees levied on funds sent from abroad by relatives, Britain's leading think tank on development said Wednesday
Twenty years after the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi and those Hutu considered as traitors, Rwandans are still trying to cope with their past and to prevent...
The main political parties remain stuck in the old apartheid paradigm while the people are trying to move on. Now a campaign to spoil ballots in...
How do the various combinations - ‘one man, a mistress and at least one girlfriend’; ‘one woman, a steady partner, and several transient lovers’; ‘older man,...
Music as a form of political and social protest was common in South Africa throughout the apartheid years, but as we mark our 20th Anniversary of...
