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…
Here is the uncomfortable truth about Kenyan elections: money wins. It buys rallies, it buys airtime, it buys loyalty, and more often than not, it buys votes. So when the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) launches public hearings on…
The Government Wants Supermarkets to Police Manufacturers. Retailers Say That’s Not Their Job. Every morning, lorries roll into supermarket loading bays across Kenya carrying thousands of factory-sealed products — cooking oil, bottled water, packaged foods, detergents. Retail clerks count boxes,…
There is something electric about a penalty shootout. The whole weight of a tournament, weeks of training, early mornings and scraped knees, compressed into a single moment between a goalkeeper and a striker. On Sunday at Erica Park in Belhar,…
There is a murder at the heart of this story. Agnes Wanjiru, a young Kenyan woman, was killed. British soldiers have been implicated. And for years, nothing happened — no accountability, no justice, no acknowledgment from the very foreign military…
The Song That Took Over Nairobi’s Earphones Picture this: it’s four minutes past ten in the morning — saa kumi, in Swahili time — and somewhere across Nairobi, someone is pressing replay. Again. Ywaya Tajiri’s “Chai ya Saa Kumi” has…
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale is in damage control mode. After remarks he made at a community event in Lafey Constituency, Mandera County, ignited a national firestorm, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has launched a formal investigation. Duale’s…
The system keeps telling young Kenyans to save more. But what if saving isn’t actually the point right now? The Guilt Trip Nobody Asked For For decades, the financial establishment has pointed fingers at young people and called it wisdom.…
Edwin Sifuna’s Linda Mwananchi tour of Western Kenya has done something remarkable in just a matter of days — it has forced Kenya Kwanza’s heavyweights into a sudden, frantic scramble to defend territory they thought was locked down. Ahead of…
Rigathi Gachagua is not going quietly. That much is clear. While courts deliberate on whether his impeachment stands — and whether he will ever be allowed to contest elective office again — Kenya’s former Deputy President has already made his…
