A leading Kenyan mental health researcher was assassinated in broad daylight on a Tuesday morning in Nairobi — two shots to the head, a waiting motorcycle, a getaway car already in position. This was not random. Someone planned this meticulously,…
Wyclife Kinyamal is not just chasing gold. He is chasing history. And if Tuesday’s heats at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games are anything to go by, nobody on that track is going to stop him. The defending champion led all…
The Question Nobody in the Opposition Wants to Answer “Ruto must go” is a slogan. It is not a plan. And for millions of young Kenyans who poured into the streets in 2024, watched their peers get shot, and still…
The Region Is Making a Big Bet East Africa’s central bank governors just made a bold move. They’ve committed to accelerating the long-stalled dream of a single regional currency by 2031 — and they’re backing that ambition with a hard,…
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…
