A Nairobi-based creative education platform is betting that artificial intelligence can unlock a new generation of Kenyan comic publishers, placing homegrown storytellers at the table of a multibillion-dollar global industry that has, for too long, consumed African talent without producing…
Something is stirring in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia, and it has nothing to do with the usual political theatre that Kenyans have grown numb to. This is different. This feels personal. Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is heading west, and the…
Africa Is Running Out of Refined Fuel — And Fast Here is a number that should stop you cold: 86 million tonnes. That is the annual petroleum product shortage Africa is projected to face by 2040, according to the State…
This Is Not Someone Else’s Fight On July 16, 2026, residents of Ol Kalou armed themselves with whatever they had and chased away vehicles carrying hooded gunmen who attempted to storm a polling station at AC Primary School. Let that…
Picture this: it is early morning in Ol Kalou, a constituency most Kenyans associate with the cold highland air and the mountains of potatoes, carrots and cabbages that keep the country fed. Voters have risen before dawn, queued patiently outside…
A man is dead. Nine motorcycles are ash. A police vehicle is wrecked. And two competing narratives about what happened this weekend are now circling each other like fighters before a brawl. The thesis here is simple and uncomfortable: Kenya’s…
A person is dead. The IEBC has sent investigation teams. Candidates are accused of bribing voters and running illegal midnight campaigns. And the government is handing out gas cylinders and fishing boats days before polling. Whatever happens in Ol Kalou,…
What is actually happening here? President William Ruto is being forced — not choosing — to reshuffle his Cabinet. A court order has made it inevitable, and that distinction matters enormously. This is not a voluntary act of political goodwill…
There is a particular kind of silence that descends on a country before its press is broken. You don’t hear it coming. You feel it — in the hesitation of an editor before publishing, in the self-censorship of a journalist…
The Movement That Rattled the State Is Now Fighting Itself Picture this: a political movement born from the raw fury of Kenya’s Gen Z uprising, one that had the establishment visibly nervous, now turning its energy inward — arguing, fracturing,…
