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 a room in Toronto, Canada. Legal scholars and political thinkers sit around a table, debating the architecture of global justice. Among them is Makau Mutua — SUNY Distinguished Professor, international law heavyweight, and a man who has spent decades…
Here is the uncomfortable truth nobody in power wants to say out loud: if your history, your language, your land don’t exist in the data, they don’t exist to the machine. And right now, the machines are winning. Africa has…
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 Prison, a Nickname, and Years of Silence Before the International Criminal Court shut down his legal escape route, Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was simply known inside Mitiga prison as “the angel of death.” That nickname was not handed…
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,…
A four-hour Ebola test result. That is the difference between a controlled outbreak and a catastrophe crossing into Kenya. The Kenya National Public Health Institute (KNPHI), working with the U.S. government-funded Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection Systems (STRIDES) programme, has deployed…
Picture this: a court awards Ksh.38.6 million to families whose loved ones were brutalised by police during protests in Kisumu, then issues clear directives to the very institutions responsible — and those institutions simply ignore them. No compliance. No request…
A Construction Site That Became an Economy Something unexpected is happening on the outskirts of Kericho Town, and it deserves more attention than it is getting. The government’s Affordable Housing Project at Majengo-Talai is not just stacking 324 housing units…
