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,…

Your Child’s Teacher Doesn’t Exist As of January this year, 17,450 teacher posts across Kenyan schools sat completely vacant. Not understaffed. Not underfunded. Empty. That means tens of thousands of students walked into classrooms this term with no qualified teacher…

The Women Feeding Kenya Are Being Left Out of the Policies That Affect Them Most Women smallholder farmers grow the food on your table. They manage the land while climate change dismantles everything they’ve built. And yet, when governments sit…