Kenya has 40 million adults but only 22 million registered voters, with 8 million abstaining. Voter apathy is evident as few register. The typical voter is disengaged, raising concerns for future ...

CHRISTINE MUNGAI travelled to western Kenya to meet farmers who had only good things to say about One Acre Fund’s activities in their communities, as the organization fills a gap created by the ...

Fortunately, life took a while to kill him, but not long enough for us to get used to his absence from our midst. Because Meja Mwangi always looked ahead to Kenya’s future, even when it still ...

On 15 December 2025, the cabinet approved two funds proposed in President William Ruto’s 2025 State of the Nation address: the National Infrastructure Fund and the Sovereign Wealth Fund. Together, ...

This podcast episode examines Kenya’s political landscape, focusing on youth support for Sifuna, the search for new leaders, national aspirations, public sentiment toward current leadership, and ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

A little over a month after Kenya adopted the amended Climate Act, the government evicted the residents of Sasimwani, Narok County, from their homes. David Ndaraiya, a leader of the forest-dwelling ...

The government has backtracked on a directive that was, ironically, issued by President William Ruto when he was Kenya’s agriculture minister. In 2009, Ruto banned the export of unprocessed macadamia ...

Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary Frantz ...

In the coastal, Indian state of Goa with no end of charismatic churches, the Mae de Deus Church in Saligao, Bardez, is an arresting sight. The neo-gothic, quaintly ribbed, avant-garde design is more ...

A few weeks into the protests that were sparked off by the Kenya government’s belligerent persistence in passing the Finance Bill, the government spokesman, Isaac Maura, held a presser in which he ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...